international intervention

Activists protest against apartheid and call to boycott the Eurovision, in Tel Aviv on May 14, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

As Israeli Jews, we demand international intervention against apartheid

Over 500 Israeli Jews sign an open letter calling for liberation for all people between the river and the sea.

By Atalia Israeli-Nevo May 21, 2021

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton watches as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian President Abbas shake hands, Washington, September 2, 2010. (Moshe Milner/GPO)

What Clinton gets so wrong about Israel-Palestine

The façade of a peace process is an obstacle to achieving a just peace, for which there can be no alternative. Hillary Clinton believes that the façade of an Israeli-Palestinian peace process is preferable to no peace process at all, we learned this week from the presidential candidate’s private emails, hacked by Russia and published…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man October 16, 2016

Palestinian women look on and react as Jerusalem municipality workers demolish a residential building in an East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina, on October 29, 2013. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

‘The occupation is sustainable because the world refuses to take action’

The following is a transcript of the prepared remarks B’Tselem executive director Hagai El-Ad delivered to UN Security Council members during a special ‘Arria-formula’ session on ‘Illegal Israeli Settlements: Obstacles to Peace and the Two-State Solution’ in New York on October 14, 2016. By Hagai El-Ad Members of the Security Council, Ladies and Gentlemen, Before I begin, I would…

By +972 Magazine October 14, 2016

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a press conference in Jerusalem on June 28, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Nobody is coming to end the occupation, part two

Israel’s response to the Quartet’s ‘recommendation’ that it halt settlement expansion makes one thing perfectly clear: Netanyahu has fully internalized that nobody is coming to end the occupation. The Quartet on Friday released a long-awaited report on … well, actually, nobody is really sure what it is about or why it was written. In fact,…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man July 2, 2016

Women hold posters depicting imprisoned Palestinian parliamentarian Khalida Jarrar at a protest against administrative detention in Nablus. Jarrar was put under administrative detention before Israel finally indicted her under international pressure, Nablus, West Bank. September 10, 2015. (Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

Mainstreaming administrative detention

Israel is currently imprisoning over 350 Palestinians and three Jewish Israelis without trial and with no way of defending themselves against charges they often aren’t even allowed to see. As Palestinians demand international intervention, Israeli lawmakers move to codify the practice. Activists in the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday demanded that the International…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man September 12, 2015

Israeli tanks are positioned along the Syrian border in the occupied Golan Heights, January 29, 2015. (Photo by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

First, do no harm: Israel and the Druze in Syria

Some Druze in Israel are campaigning for intervention to save their kin on the Syrian side of the border, but the Druze in Syria reject the idea out of hand. Instead, they are demanding that Israel stop supporting the people threatening to massacre them. By Rabah Halabi ISIL and Jabhat al-Nusra are fanatical religious movements…

By +972 Magazine June 22, 2015

Speaker Boehner holds a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Congressional leaders following his address to a joint meeting of Congress. May 24, 2011. (Speaker Boehner / CC-BY NY 2.0)

Netanyahu’s hypocrisy about intervening in other countries’ affairs

What would happen if a foreign country started lobbying for bills in the Israeli Knesset, going so far as to seek the insertion of specific clauses into them? The Right in Israel isn’t the biggest fan of foreign countries getting involved in its affairs. It’s true when it comes to the European Union providing shelter…

By Haggai Matar April 7, 2015

Yarmouk residents gathered to await a food distribution from UNRWA in January 2014. (Photo by UNRWA)

If only there was oil under Yarmouk

As Palestinians are being murdered and starving to death in the refugee camp near Damascus, the Arab world is busy intervening in Yemen, the Palestinian Authority is silent, and Israeli television is talking about where to eat during the Passover holiday. Monday morning, on the morning show on Israel’s Channel 10, which was co-hosted by…

By Samah Salaime April 6, 2015

Israeli and American F-15 airplanes cooperating during the "Blue Flag" exercise in November 2013. (Photo by Gui Ashash/IAF)

The U.S. is also guilty in Palestine

When an indigenous, stateless population is blocked access to opportunities for justice by superpowers like the U.S., something is wrong – deadly wrong. By Sam Bahour The U.S. is not a neutral mediator in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict; it is an active participant and is guilty of the crimes being committed by Israel against Palestinians, most…

By +972 Magazine September 19, 2014

Al-Haq director Shawan Jabarin (Photo: Matt Surrusco/+972)

‘The occupation has no future’

+972 speaks with Shawan Jabarin, general director of Palestinian human rights NGO Al-Haq, about how and why the organization decided to start using the term Apartheid, and what role accountability and international intervention could play in guaranteeing human rights. Sitting on a green leather couch in his Ramallah office not far from Al-Manara Square, Shawan…

By Matt Surrusco August 6, 2013

Attorney Michael Sfard in his Tel Aviv law office, July 23, 2013. (Photo: Matt Surrusco)

‘The peace process has become a major enemy of human rights’

+972 speaks with Michael Sfard, human rights attorney and legal counsel and co-founder of Yesh Din – Volunteers for Human Rights, about litigating key human rights cases, past and pending, and the ‘mighty price to be paid’ when advocating Palestinian rights from within the Israeli legal system. With Palestinians and Israelis expected to restart negotiations…

By Matt Surrusco July 28, 2013

ACRI executive director Hagai El-Ad at the Human Rights Day march in Tel Aviv, December 11, 2009 (Keren Manor/Activestills.org)

‘Occupation will never be consistent with human rights’

+972 speaks with the Association for Civil Rights in Israel’s executive director Hagai El-Ad, discussing bittersweet legal victories, the downward trajectory of civil rights in Israel and how ACRI is facing its greatest challenge, winning over the Israeli public. Hagai El-Ad’s change in career paths came from a self-realization that his destiny was not in…

By Matt Surrusco June 30, 2013