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Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir at the scene of a shooting attack in Neve Yaakov, Jerusalem, January 27, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
Why Ben Gvir wants more guns on the streets
The Israeli far right sees widespread gun ownership as a means of enforcing racial supremacy — a lesson taken straight out of the American playbook.
By Nate Orbach February 1, 2023
Rabbi Meir Kahane. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
Is Kahane more mainstream than American Jews will admit?
A new biography explores the American roots of Meir Kahane's far-right ideology — and how the U.S. Jewish establishment embraced his beliefs.
By Hadas Binyamini December 30, 2021
Members of the Kahanist Otzma Yehudit party Bentzi Gopstein (left) Michael Ben Ari (center) and Attorney Itamar Ben Gvir (right) seen in Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem, March 12, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
Israel’s fascist sideshow takes center stage
For the first time in over 30 years, a proper Kahanist party could be entering the Knesset. But is the rise of a party that advocates for Jewish supremacy, theocracy, and ‘total war’ as unprecedented as the outcry has suggested? The last week has been an eventful one in the annals of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s dalliances with the…
By Natasha Soffer-Roth February 24, 2019
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Members of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) beat a 55-year-old Palestinian man outside the AIPAC convention in Washington D.C., March 26, 2017. (Screenshot)
WATCH: Jewish Defense League activists beat Palestinian-American at AIPAC
Wearing shirts and carrying flags bearing insignia of the JDL, once declared a terrorist organization, the violent men and women also attacked left-wing Jewish activists. At least one was arrested. Members of the Jewish Defense League severely beat a 55-year old Palestinian American man and assaulted several American Jewish activists with IfNotNow outside the AIPAC…
By Mairav Zonszein March 29, 2017
IfNotNow activists form a human chain outside the Washington Convention Center to protest the annual AIPAC Policy Conference, Washington D.C., March 26, 2017. (Gili Getz)
American Jews, which side are you on?
Rather than sit uncomfortably within the tired anti- or pro-Israel paradigm, we are building a reality in which American Jews who disagree with the occupation can take comfort in their Jewish identity. By Shira Yudkin Tiffany Rows of police demarcated the sides outside the annual AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington D.C. Two human chains of protestors in matching t-shirts…
By +972 Magazine March 28, 2017
Stock photo boycott activists in France. (Photo by Olga Besnard/Shutterstock.com)
French pro-Israel group threatens to ‘scalp’ thousands of BDS activists
The ‘Brigade Juive’ claims to have sent the threatening email to 8,000 activists worldwide, lamenting that since French law doesn’t do enough against boycott supporters it must take matters into its own hands. By Yael Marom A right-wing group calling itself the “Brigade Juive” (Jewish Brigade) says it sent thousands of threatening emails and messages…
By +972 Magazine June 17, 2016
ZOA presidential hopeful Steve Goldberg (Screenshot)
More Zionist than the Jewish state itself
The man who wants to take over the Zionist Organization of America is further to the right and more of a warmonger than the most right-wing government Israel has ever had.  The Zionist Organization of America was one of the first major Jewish-American umbrella organizations to support the nascent State of Israel. From Louis Brandeis…
By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man February 9, 2014
Hebron students demonstrate against security restrictions, October 2011 (Photo: Ben Lorber)
Hebron teachers protest measures that keep them from school
The IDF has suddenly decided to force Hebron school teachers to go through checkpoint metal detectors that place their health at risk. Children from the school, accustomed to settler and army harassment, have joined them in their protest at Checkpoint 56 By Ben Lorber For nearly two weeks, a group of young schoolchildren and female teachers from…
By +972 Magazine October 23, 2011
“2Pac tortured by Jewish gangsters using Tel Aviv mob method”
Disclaimer: This is a satirical article
By Ami Kaufman April 15, 2011
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