Incitement

Palestinian citizens of Israel and left-wing Israeli activists at a protest against Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, in Haifa, May 11, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

For Israeli leaders, every Palestinian citizen has a seat on the bus to Gaza

From racist incitement to police repression during the Gaza war, Israel is punishing Arab citizens for the crime of belonging to the Palestinian people.

By Samah Salaime November 6, 2023

Palestinian journalist Lama Ghosheh is led into a hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, accused of identification with a terrorist organization and incitement to violence because of Facebook posts, September 12, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

Israel indicts Palestinian journalist over ‘incitement’ in Facebook posts

Lama Ghosheh is currently under house arrest after becoming the latest casualty of Israel's anti-incitement laws targeting Palestinians.

By Oren Ziv September 13, 2022

An Israeli soldier watches a Palestinian journalist during a protest against the Trump Plan, in the Jordan Valley, West Bank, February 25, 2020. (Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills)

Israel charges Palestinian journalists with incitement — for doing their jobs

Palestinian journalists have been interrogated and imprisoned by Israel for covering protests, funerals, and other political events, pressuring many into self-censorship. A report by +972, Local Call, and The Intercept.

By Yuval Abraham April 5, 2022

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A Palestinian youth holds a phone displaying WhatsApp in front of a computer with Facebook in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 26, 2014. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Anti-Palestinian incitement spikes online with Israeli election season

Violent, racist speech against Palestinians and Arabs was posted every 64 seconds on Israeli social media last year, new report finds.

By Ellie Stern March 12, 2020

Palestinian journalist Ali Dar Ali seen in Ofer Military Court on August 20, 2018. (Oren Ziv)

One of Palestine’s most popular journalists is in jail for incitement

Ali Dar Ali was arrested for two posts he published on Facebook. But the prosecution and the judge are far more concerned with his large following than the content of the posts. By Oren Ziv Israeli forces arrested Ali Dar Ali, one of the most renowned Palestinian journalists in the West Bank, at his home near Ramallah last week, for incitement…

By Oren Ziv August 21, 2018

Illustrative photo of Israeli newspapers stuffed into the back of a bus seat, (Maxim Dinshtein/Flash90)

The media’s role in shaping Jewish-Israeli attitudes toward Arabs

Whenever members of the Israeli government make outrageous statements or accusations against the Arab or Palestinian population, they are rarely challenged by the press that broadcasts those allegations into homes. The Knesset, Israel’s parliament, recently held a conference on the media’s role in perpetuating incitement against Arabs in the country.

By Social TV September 6, 2017

Palestinian and Israeli activists take part a protest against occupation, Route 60, between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Bethlehem, July 7, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Why it’s still important to talk about peace

Israelis may want peace, but they want it on their terms: without Palestinian resistance to the occupation. By Raef Zreik The rhetoric of “peace” as a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict blurs the problem at hand: the Palestinians don’t want peace. Peace is viewed as the opposite of war, but the Palestinians are not in…

By Haokets July 30, 2017

A Palestinian woman works at the Al Jazeera TV station in the West Bank city of Ramallah, June 14, 2009. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Forget Al Jazeera — Bibi should halt his own government’s incitement

Netanyahu is calling to shut down Al Jazeera’s Jerusalem bureau, accusing the station of incitement to violence amid tensions over the Temple Mount. Has he heard what his own ministers have been saying recently? Palestinian incitement has long been Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scapegoat for the lack of progress in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For him, Palestinian…

By Edo Konrad July 27, 2017

Rabbi Yosef Elitzur speaks with his lawyer in cour in 2010. (Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Extremist rabbi indicted for incitement against Palestinians

The indictment, which was approved by Israel’s attorney general, was the result of a years-long petition demanding the state take action. Israel’s quasi-constitution has no explicit protection of free speech. A extremist Israeli settler rabbi who has published articles and books on the permissibility of killing non-Jews was indicted for incitement to violence on Tuesday,…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man June 13, 2017

Dareen Tatour at the Nazareth Magistrates Court. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Political poetry as a crime: Inside the surreal trial of Dareen Tatour

Arresting someone for publishing a political poem is extraordinary. Having to prove at trial that police mistranslated your poem is nothing short of surreal. By Yoav Haifawi It has been nearly a year and a half since Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour was arrested in her home for writing a poem. She spent three months in various prisons, including half a…

By +972 Magazine March 26, 2017

Israeli policemen stand guard in front of the car of Yaqoub Abu Al-Qi'an, who was shot dead by Israeli police in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran, in the Negev desert, January 18, 2017. (Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Activestills.org)

Accepting the truth about Umm al-Hiran killing isn’t enough

The slander and lies that accompanied the lethal shooting of a Bedouin teacher in Umm al-Hiran last month were nothing out of the ordinary. Walking it back won’t be enough. In the end, it took a looming police internal affairs report for one of Israel’s most senior government ministers to even consider walking back his insistent…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland February 23, 2017

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands alongside Police Chief Roni Alsheikh (right) and Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan (left) in Zichron Ya'akov, northern Israel, November 23, 2016. (Emil Salman/Flash90)

One week later: Where is the evidence of an ‘arson intifada?’

The police has yet to declare a single wildfire an act of terrorism, the commissioner says arson is a self-fulfilling prophecy, and many cases of suspected terrorism turned out to be nothing more than negligence. This, of course, does not bother Israel’s leaders or media. Now that the rain has started pouring, bringing an end to…

By Haggai Matar December 2, 2016

Anas Abudaabes and his wife, Ruqayya Sabah, in their home in Rahat, November 30, 2016. (Orly Noy)

Meet the Palestinian man arrested for being sarcastic on Facebook

Anas Abudaabes, arrested for publishing satirical Facebook posts about people celebrating the wildfires in Israel, talks about how Israeli police tried to humiliate him, and explains why he insists on criticizing Arab society in Israel. Like Ludvik, the protagonist in Milan Kundera’s novel “The Joke,” Anas Abudaabes has discovered firsthand the problems that arise when…

By Orly Noy November 30, 2016