Hijab

Palestinian women sit and study together at Hebrew University. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israeli society isn’t yet ready for a woman in a hijab

I am a strong, independent and successful woman. Yet Israeli society is unwilling to understand that wearing a hijab is my choice. By Seren Khateb Shahbari Two years ago I decided to start wearing a hijab. I had a feeling that this is what I wanted at this stage of life. The spiritual need pushed me…

By +972 Magazine August 27, 2017

Palestinians arrive to Qalandiya checkpoint outside Ramallah, West Bank, to cross into Jerusalem to attend the Ramadan Friday Prayers in Al-Aqsa Mosque, July 19, 2013. (Photo: Nidal Elwan/ Activestills.org)

Religion and politics during Ramadan in Jerusalem

Why travel from Nablus to Ramallah only to get stuck at the Qalandia checkpoint for a couple of hours, pass through, take another bus to Jerusalem and then do all of it again in one day? What’s the tradeoff for this humiliation? By R. Khazen Where are all the masses coming from? I asked myself…

By +972 Magazine July 28, 2013

Muslims march in Buckinghamshire, England to commemorate the birth of the Prophet Muhammad. (photo by MonkeySimon CC BY 2.0)

Autoxenophobia: The ‘demographic threat’ goes worldwide

The real demographic balance that should worry liberal, humanist, open and progressive people is the number of xenophobes in our society, rather than the number of people with beards, skullcaps or hijabs. By Dubi Kanengisser When I lived in Toronto, I used to jokingly exclaim “man, I hate those immigrants.” Like all jokes, this had a…

By +972 Magazine October 3, 2012

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Italian reflections: A journey between Bibi and Berlusconi

After three days in Amman, my beloved Itka said: “That’s it, I’ve had enough. I must go somewhere where women wear miniskirts.” We left Israel for Jordan hoping to find a cheap flight somewhere further afield, but flights to the lands of miniskirts, of saris or of kimonos all turned out to be full. Eid…

By Yuval Ben-Ami September 27, 2010

The joint struggle & sex crimes: cover up or smear campaign?

Recently, claims have been made public on blogs both in Israel [Hebrew] and outside it about sexual attacks against Israeli and international activists by Palestinians in Palestinian villages and at Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem. It was further claimed that there is “a conspiracy of silence” surrounding this issue. To this, leftwing activists responded that these…

By Noam Sheizaf September 25, 2010