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Palestinian citizens of Israel demonstrate against perceived changes to the status quo at Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sakhalin, northern Israel, October 13, 2015. (Omar Sameer/Activestills.org)

Palestinians, it’s time to take our fight into the global arena

The non-stop incitement against Palestinian citizens of Israel from both the government and media prove the need for a new kind of resistance. It’s time for a change of direction. If the Israeli radical left and the Palestinian leadership were strategically smarter about opposing the occupation, they would have made into an artform the incitement,…

By Rami Younis January 23, 2017

Ultra-Orthodox children look on as fire fighters try to extinguish a fire tha broke out near Ramat Beit Shemesh, outside of Jerusalem, September 20, 2016. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

Education Ministry still blaming Arab citizens for ‘arson intifada’

By now it is clear to all that the fires that erupted in Israel late last year were not the result of nationalistic arson. So why does the Education Ministry claim otherwise? By John Brown* This past November, Israel’s Education Ministry published a booklet on the fires that erupted in Israel late last year. The…

By +972 Magazine January 17, 2017

Residents of Bir Hadaj warm themselves around a fire after homes in the village were demolished. (Rami Younis)

How the Israeli Right easily manipulates Palestinians and the Left

Distracted by the ‘fire intifada’ that wasn’t and the progress of the ‘muezzin law,’ the Israeli Left and several Palestinian Knesset members failed to call out the other injustices of the last few weeks. It’s easy to condemn the declarations that the recent wave of fires across Israel brought from Israel’s igniter — sorry, inciter-in-chief Benjamin Netanyahu,…

By Rami Younis December 5, 2016

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