kafr qasim

Family and friends carry the body of Muhammad Taha during his funeral ceremony in Kfar Qasim in central Israel, June 6, 2017. (Flash90)

Colonialism’s latest victim

The Palestinian man killed in Kafr Qasim this week was just the latest casualty of a colonial system whose masters feel forever threatened by the natives they rule over. By Marzuq Al-Halabi The killing of a Palestinian man in Kafr Qasim by an Israeli security guard earlier this week was more than just a regrettable incident that raised…

By +972 Magazine June 10, 2017

Mahmoud Mahmoud Salim Taha, who was shot and killed by a security guard in Kafr Qasem, June 5, 2017.

Kafr Qasim killing shows police threat to Palestinian citizens

As long as police continue to see Palestinian citizens of Israel as ‘the enemy,’ the deadly shootings — and the ever-deepening crisis in relations — will continue. An Israeli security guard shot and killed 28-year-old Mahmoud Mahmoud Salim Taha, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, in Kafr Qasim on Monday night. Disturbances had broken out while police…

By Yali (Yael) Marom and Orly Noy June 6, 2017

Portraits of the Arab boys who were beaten, tortured, and shot to death before being returned to their families. (Courtesy of Al-Jalil)

The gruesome murder of five Arab boys refuses to disappear — 55 years on

Beaten, tortured, and shot to death: this is the story of five Arab boys who met a gruesome fate at the hands of Israel’s security forces in September 1961. Ben Gurion’s government refused to tell the truth of what really happened. By Makbula Nassar Last week marked 60 years since the Kafr Qasim massacre. Although the event…

By +972 Magazine November 5, 2016

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Israeli soldiers seen in Kafr Qasim in 1948. (GPO)

My grandmother was murdered in Kafr Qasim, now these are my demands

I think about the events that led up to the murder of my grandmother and 48 other women, children, and men, along with dozens of survivors who carry their trauma until today. Will we ever see true justice? By Reem Amer Everyone speaks of the Kafr Qasim massacre of 1956 as if it were an isolated…

By +972 Magazine October 29, 2016

Memorial for the Kafr Qasim Massacre, in Kafr Qasim. (Photo: Avishai Teicher)

48 human beings were massacred – and we have forgotten them

When a country accepts responsibility for such a significant event in its past, one might expect it to erect a monument to the victims, to sponsor the annual memorial ceremony and to honor the memory of those murdered rather than leave the matter to the families left behind, as if it were their problem alone.…

By +972 Magazine November 3, 2013

Israeli police fire tear gas toward and forcefully disperse demonstrators during a protest against the Israeli government's Prawer-Begin Plan, on road 65 near the northern town of Ar'ara. (Photo: Activestills.org)

For Palestinian citizens, 1956 massacre is not a distant memory

If Israel was able to inflict fatalities in 2000 just as it did in Kafr Qasim in 1956, with no accountability to the victims and affected families, how can Arabs feel safe about their rights as citizens? This week, Palestinian citizens of Israel marked the 57th anniversary of the Kafr Qasim massacre, when an Israeli…

By Amjad Iraqi November 2, 2013

Memorial for the Kafr Qasim Massacre, in Kafr Qasim. (Photo: Avishai Teicher)

‘Bad apple’ narrative still rotten 57 years after Kafr Qasim Massacre

Though individual soldiers were convicted in the 1956 Kafr Qasim Massacre, Israel’s courts never even questioned why civilians were under military rule and curfews. Today, individual soldiers are still convicted of crimes but the occupation itself is never questioned and wrongdoing is dismissed as the work of ‘bad apples.’ By Leehee Rothschild Fifty-seven years ago, on…

By +972 Magazine October 30, 2013

MK Dov Khenin of the Hadash party. (photo: Yossi Gurvitz)

Is Israel preparing for a population transfer?

One of the goals of the 1956 Kafr Qasim Massacre, as envisioned by the action’s commander, Major Shmuel Malinki, was to encourage the mass flight of the Palestinians still living in Israel after the 1948 ethnic cleansing. Malinki was aware of staff plans for such expulsions, and remembered the role played by the Deir Yassin…

By Yossi Gurvitz October 9, 2010