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Screenshots from the websites of Jusoor News and the Center for Peace Communications. Background image shows the ruins of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills)

The viral Arabic media outlet hiding its ties to Israel

Jusoor News says it reflects the pulse of the Arab street. But leaked files suggest links to Israeli intelligence and a pro-Israel agenda with deep roots.

By Yossi Bartal and Amin Al Magrebi July 13, 2026

IDF Spokesperson, Brigadier General Effie Defrin, December 12, 2025. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit Facebook page; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Inside the Israeli army’s propaganda wing

Psy-op campaigns, selective leaks, exclusive reporter access: Soldiers and journalists reveal how the IDF Spokesperson's Unit controls public discourse and promotes Israel's narrative abroad.

By Illy Pe’ery April 8, 2026

Foreign and Israeli journalists stand on a hill overlooking the Gaza Strip in the city of Sderot, southern Israel, October 19, 2023. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

The legal fight to open Gaza to foreign press has failed. It’s time to change course

As Israel’s Supreme Court continues enabling the government’s foreign media ban, Palestinian journalists are paying the price. Further legal efforts are futile.

By Amos Brison February 6, 2026

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Kuzu Netanyahu snub (Screenshot)

WATCH: Dutch MP refuses to shake Netanyahu’s hand

‘Oh, okay,’ the Israeli prime minister responds to snub by breakaway former Labour MP. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went to the Netherlands on Tuesday as part of his efforts to, in his words, “instill gradually” in Europe the idea that Israel is “preventing the spread of radical Islamic terrorism.” According to press releases from the Prime Minister’s…

By +972 Magazine September 7, 2016

A Magen David Adom ambulance attempts to navigate around the body of a Palestinian man who shot in the head by an Israeli soldier in the occupied city of Hebron. The man, who reportedly took part in stabbing another soldier, had already been shot and incapacitated. March 24, 2016. (Screenshot/B’Tselem)

Palestinian who filmed Hebron shooting faces threats to his life

Ever since he filmed an Israeli soldier executing a Palestinian man in Hebron, Emad Abu Shamsiya has been subject to violent threats. Things became so bad his family had to leave their home. So why do the police refuse to help? By John Brown* Ever since a video showing Israeli soldier Elor Azaria executing an immobilized Palestinian attacker…

By +972 Magazine September 3, 2016

A Palestinian activist collects water as an Israeli military patrol monitors activity in the Jordan Valley protest village of Ein Hijleh, West Bank, February 6, 2014. As part of its Melh Al-Ard (Salt of the Earth) campaign, the Palestinian Popular Struggle Coordination Committee began on Friday January 31 to restore and occupy abandoned homes in Ein Hijleh to protest the ongoing Israeli annexation of the Jordan Valley. (photo: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

WATCH: Far from the public eye, Palestinian villages are being dried out

Qarawat Bani Hassan, a Palestinian village in the West Bank water shortage since Israel’s national water company decided to reduce its supply. This past July, Israeli activists visited the village and heard first-hand how the residents cope.

By Social TV August 19, 2016

Palestinians and international activists connect a water pipe to Palestinian families' homes in Fasayil, Jordan Valley, August 17, 2013. (Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

WATCH: Activists show solidarity with parched Bedouin village

Israel’s National Water Company, Mekorot, supplies water to Israeli settlements in Area C of the West Bank while Palestinians are denied access to wells and pipes that run through their land. Watch Israeli and international activists show solidarity with Bedouin living on the edge of the village of Fasayil in the Jordan Valley.

By Social TV August 14, 2016

An Israeli Border Police officer is seen stepping on an eight-year-old Palestinian girl's bicycle, Hebron, July 25, 2016. (Screenshot: B'Tselem)

WATCH: Border cop confiscates Palestinian girl’s bicycle in Hebron

Video shows Border Police officer taking away eight-year-old Anwar Burqan’s bicycle and throwing it into the nearby bushes. An Israeli Border Police officer was caught confiscating a bicycle from an eight-year-old Palestinian girl in the West Bank city of Hebron last week. In a video shot by B’Tselem volunteer Raed Abu Ramileh and published Tuesday afternoon, the officer…

By Edo Konrad August 2, 2016

A view of the unrecognized Bedouin village of Um al Hiran, Negev, Israel, January 18, 2014. Roughly 200,000 Bedouins live in the Negev desert. About half living in the seven government built townships in the northeast of the Negev and half in unrecognized villages which lack basic services such as clean water, electricity and sanitation. (photo: Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

100k Bedouin Israelis couldn’t watch Netanyahu’s ‘apology’ — they don’t have electricity

In a video shot in his office, Israel’s prime minister apologizes to the country’s Arab citizens for inciting against them. But a large portion of them couldn’t watch it — they live in ‘unrecognized villages’ that Israel refuses to connect to basic infrastructure like electricity, and the internet. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published a video addressing the country’s Arab…

By Mairav Zonszein July 27, 2016

Prime Minister Netanyahu making a recorded public address. (YouTube) screenshot)

No Bibi, Palestinians succeed despite Israel — not because of it

By urging Israel’s Palestinians to take a more active role in civil society, Netanyahu erases an entire history that existed in this land before Zionism. It is not entirely clear what drove Prime Minister Netanyahu to use this moment and release a video directed at Israel’s Arab citizens. It clocks in at just over three minutes, and…

By Orly Noy July 26, 2016

Protesters hold a sit-in during a protest against police brutality targeting Israelis of Ethiopian descent, July 3, 2016. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

WATCH: Why Ethiopian Israelis are taking to the streets

Hundreds of Israelis of Ethiopian descent took to the streets earlier this month to protest police brutality targeting black Israelis, but also police violence in general. One of the major symbols of the movement is an Ethiopian Israeli man named Yosef Salamsa, who’s death many in the community directly tie to the police violence and…

By Social TV July 20, 2016

Demolition of Al Arakib as children watch (Activestills)

Police arrest three minors in Bedouin village as expulsion efforts continue

Police arrest three children in ‘unrecognized’ village of Al-Araqib, as the Jewish National Fund continues its forestation project on village land. Two children, 12 and 13, were arrested in the unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Araqib in Israel’s south on Monday, as the Jewish National Fund (JNF) entered the village accompanied by police forces to resume cultivating land for a…

By Mairav Zonszein July 19, 2016

An Israeli soldier attempts to stop activists with the Center for Jewish Non-Violence in the West Bank city of Hebron, July 15, 2016. (Dahlia Scheindlin)

Jewish, Palestinian activists try to build a cinema in Hebron

As soldiers and settlers look on, dozens of foreign Jews join Palestinians in the segregated city of Hebron try ‘to make the unbearable a little more bearable.’ Police detain six Israelis among the group, prevent others from even joining. The streets in the Israel-controlled section of Hebron were sunny and silent at 9 a.m. on Friday. The Palestinian shops…

By Dahlia Scheindlin July 15, 2016