Jewish supremacy

Israeli youth attack journalists at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, during Jerusalem Day celebrations, June 5, 2024 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Chanting ‘burn Shu’afat’ and ‘flatten Gaza,’ masses attend Jerusalem Flag March

Israeli ministers joined the annual celebration of East Jerusalem’s conquest, where racist slogans and attacks on journalists have become mainstream.

By Oren Ziv June 6, 2024

Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the Federation of Local Authorities conference in Tel Aviv, December 6, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

The violent lies of Israel’s president

When members of Congress applaud falsehoods about Israel being a vibrant democracy, they are aiding and abetting further oppression of Palestinians.

By Yuli Novak July 31, 2023

Anti-government protesters march against the government's judicial overhaul, Tel Aviv, July 29, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

The only answer to the Israeli right’s war: A state for all its citizens

Israel’s protest leaders are strengthening an ethnocratic identity that lacks all consistency with their ‘democratic’ mission. But an alternative exists.

By Ameer Fakhoury July 30, 2023

Latest

Palestinians wait to cross Qalandiya checkpoint on their way from the occupied West Bank to Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem, to take part in Friday prayers during Ramadan, April 29, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

How Israeli apartheid spread from inside the Green Line to the West Bank

A new report examines how, according to Adalah Legal Director Suhad Bishara, Israel is expanding Jewish territorial, spatial, and political supremacy.

By Orly Noy June 29, 2023

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 11, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

The Israeli right is the minority — the left need only realize it

It’s time for the Jewish left to understand that by aligning its struggle with the Palestinians, it can be part of a majority against occupation and apartheid.

By Meron Rapoport January 12, 2023

Itamar Ben Gvir visits the Jewish settlement of Beit Orot near the neighborhood of At-Tur, occupied East Jerusalem, October 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The generals are the supremacists of the past. Ben Gvir is the supremacist of now

The Kahanist lawmaker offers a ‘democratized’ version of supremacy: taking power from the old elites and handing it to the marginalized Jewish masses.

By Orly Noy November 3, 2022

Young Palestinian men sit by a section of the separation wall in the West Bank city of Abu-Dis, September 29, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Does Israel-Palestine need any ‘state’ solution?

What does it mean to pursue regime change as a path for transformation in Israel-Palestine — and is it enough to bring about justice?

By Diana B. Greenwald July 28, 2021

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

Ra'am party leader Mansour Abbas speaks during a press conference in Nazareth, April 1, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Mansour Abbas doesn’t stand a chance against the forces of Jewish supremacy

Abbas had hoped his new status as 'kingmaker' would allow him to influence Israeli politics. But he is no match for Bezalel Smotrich and the far right.

By Meron Rapoport April 5, 2021

Palestinians working in Israel receive a COVID-19 vaccine, south of Tulkarm in the West Bank on March 8, 2021. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Why is The Forward afraid of criticizing Israel’s discriminatory vaccine policy?

American Jews must recognize that Israel’s refusal to vaccinate all Palestinians under its rule is part of a supremacist policy that goes beyond the occupation.

By Sari Bashi April 1, 2021

A Palestinian citizen of Israel takes part in a protest against annexation of thr West Bank, Tel Aviv, June 6, 2020. (Oren Ziv)

The Israeli right wants Arabs at the polls — with one big condition

Israeli politicians are scrambling for the votes of Arab citizens. But this love affair is driven by a colonial goal: erasing the community's Palestinian identity.

By Meron Rapoport and Ameer Fakhoury February 4, 2021

Orthodox Jews participate in a Sukkot prayer at the Or Pashut synagogue, in the northern Israeli community of Kadita, near Safed, Sept. 26, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)

With the Nation-State Law, Israel’s religious right is deciding who is a Jew

Israel's Nation-State Law does not see Judaism as a diverse religion, but as an identity that guarantees supremacy over other people — including other Jews.

By Etan Nechin December 20, 2020

Israeli security forces clash with Palestinian citizens in the town of Umm al-Fahem in northern Israel, July 5, 2014. (Omar Samir/Flash90)

The colonial heritage of Israel’s police

Like South Africa and the United States, Israel's police were explicitly designed to enforce racial supremacy with violence and impunity.

By Suhad Bishara October 6, 2020