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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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Jewish and Arab children at a protest demanding bilingual, integrated Jewish-Arab education in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, March 11, 2016. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Hundreds demand integrated, bilingual education in Jaffa

Parents say that the city is not offering a satisfactory option for bilingual and integrated education of Jewish and Arab children in the mixed city. Hundreds of Jewish and Arab parents and children from Jaffa protested in central Tel Aviv Friday morning to demand that the city provide them with an option to study in…

By +972 Magazine March 11, 2016

Palestinian and Israeli demonstrators release hundreds of balloons marking International Women's Day during a protest march against the occupation, Beit Jala, West Bank, March 4, 2016. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

WATCH: Palestinians, Israelis march to mark Int’l Women’s Day

Hundreds mark International Women’s Day with a joint Israeli-Palestinian protest outside the ‘tunnels checkpoint’ in the West Bank. ‘Our children pay the price of the conflict, and we want to protect them.’ Photos and video by Oren Ziv / Activestills.org Over 500 Israelis and Palestinians took part in march to mark International Women’s Day and…

By Haggai Matar March 6, 2016

Israeli soldiers arrest activist Kobi Snitz during a protest in Hebron marking 22 years since the Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre, February 20, 2016. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

WATCH: Palestinians, Israelis protest settler privileges in Hebron

Days after an Israeli settler murdered 29 Muslim worshippers in 1992, the Israeli army put the city of Hebron on lockdown, closing off some of its main thoroughfare — Shuhada Street — to Palestinian traffic. Twenty-two years later, some parts of Hebron are still off limits to its Palestinian residents. Every year, Palestinian and Israeli…

By Social TV March 4, 2016

Avi Schwarzberger. (Screenshot)

Meet the YouTube star taking the Jewish world by storm

Avi Schwartzberger just launched an outlandish, hilarious video series showing the most taboo sides of Israeli society through the lens of a Birthright alumn. A terrifyingly real interview with a not-quite-real person. Ever since Peter Beinart first awoke North American Jewry to the increasingly pronounced dichotomy between Zionism and liberalism among young Jews, the discourse on…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man February 23, 2016

Women of the Wall praying at Kotel May 10, 2013 (Activestills)

WATCH: Will you use Western Wall’s new ‘mixed prayer plaza?’

After years of negotiations with reform and conservative movements of Judaism and ‘Women of the Wall,’ the Israeli government agreed to create an egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, where men and women can pray in the same space. We went to the Western Wall to ask people how they feel about…

By Social TV February 21, 2016

Palestinians, Israelis and internationals march through the West Bank village of Bil’in, protesting Israel’s expropriation of village land with the separation barrier, February 19, 2016. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

WATCH: Palestinians mark 11 years of struggle against the wall

The West Bank village of Bil’in, along with supporters from Israel and abroad, march on the separation wall that has illegally annexed their agricultural lands. Bil’in has become a symbol of Palestinian non-violent resistance. By Oren Ziv/Activestills.org Hundreds of people — Palestinians, Israelis, and foreigners — took part in a march Friday to mark 11…

By Activestills February 19, 2016

Asylum seekers from Holot play soccer with Israeli students in Be'er Sheva. (Social TV)

WATCH: Israeli students stage soccer tournament for refugees

Israel is imprisoning thousands of African asylum seekers in a desert detention facility called ‘Holot.’ A group of students and youngsters from Be’er Sheva, in southern Israel, recently organized a soccer tournament with the asylum seekers in an attempt to make them feel less isolated. Israeli authorities systematically deny the Sudanese and Eritrean asylum seekers…

By Social TV February 14, 2016

Illustrative photo of a parent bringing his child to school in Jaffa, Israel. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

WATCH: Jaffa parents demand desegregated, bilingual education

The Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality does not offer any bi-lingual education options for Jewish and Palestinian families who live in the same Jaffa neighborhoods, on the same streets, and in the same apartment buildings. Parents of children enrolled in the city’s only Arabic-Hebrew bi-lingual kindergarten are now demanding that the city provide their children an option…

By Social TV February 12, 2016

Hunger striking Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq at Emek Medical Center in Afula, Israel, February 8, 2016. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Hunger striking Palestinian journalist is dying, lawyer says

The Supreme Court suspended Muhammad al-Qiq’s administrative detention order but won’t let him return to the West Bank; al-Qiq’s attorney says he will only accept medical treatement in a Palestinian hospital. By Oren Ziv and Yael Marom Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq is on day 77 of a hunger strike protesting his administrative detention, a practice…

By +972 Magazine February 9, 2016

Palestinians protest against the Israeli military's closure of ‪‎Qabatiya‬, near Jenin, February 6, 2016. (photo: Ahmad al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

WATCH: Three days under military closure in Qabatiya

West Bank town put under closure following last week’s deadly attack on Israeli Border Police officers in Jerusalem’s Old City. Photos and text by: Ahmad Al-Bazz / Activestills.org After three days of strict military closure, the Israeli army lifted its blockade Saturday evening on the town of Qabatiya in the northern West Bank. The blockade…

By Activestills February 7, 2016