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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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Police fire "Skunk" water against ultra-Orthodox Jews who are blocking a main road during a demonstration, protesting against the imprisonment of their fellow Haredim, who have been detained by the army for not enlisting, West Jerusalem, November 26, 2017. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

This is what it looks like to be hit by Israel’s ‘Skunk’

The ‘Skunk,’ a foul-smelling liquid most often used to suppress Palestinian demonstrations, is now finding a new target: ultra-Orthodox Jews. For much of the past year, Israeli forces have been using a foul-smelling liquid shot from a water cannon at high velocity to try and put down a burgeoning protest movement by ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem.…

By Edo Konrad November 27, 2017

New footage proves police assaulted Arab MK at deadly home demolition

Police initially denied using force against Ayman Odeh, who was shot in the head and back with sponge-tipped bullets moments after a Bedouin man and a police officer were killed in a tragic incident. Newly released footage shows Israeli police assaulting Palestinian member of Knesset Ayman Odeh at a home demolition during which one Bedouin…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man November 22, 2017

Mattan Helman was supposed to serve in the Nahal Brigrade in the occupied territories. Instead, he will refuse to enlist as a conscientious objector, a decision that will land him in jail.

‘There is no moral occupation’: Why I refuse to serve

Mattan Helman was supposed to serve in the Nahal Brigrade in the occupied territories. Instead, he will refuse to enlist as a conscientious objector, a decision that will land him in jail.

By Social TV November 17, 2017

Palestinian citizens of Israel pass photos of Palestinian refugees as they walk in the March of Return to the village of Lubya in northern Israel, May 6, 2014. Lubya was destroyed in the Nakba, literally "catastrophe", in which more than 500 Palestinian villages were destroyed before and during the 1948 War.

In the Galilee, Palestinians and Israelis grapple with a dark past

A joint trip by Israeli Jews and internally displaced Palestinians to the village of Mi’ar, which was destroyed and depopulated during the 1948 War, brings up the ghosts of the past.

By Social TV November 15, 2017

Ofir Averbukh (Screenshot)

Conscientious objector freed after 150 days in IDF prison

Ofir Averbukh only went public with his refusal to serve in the IDF after 130 days in jail. ‘Despite the difficulties, I am proud of my decision to stand for my principles.’ By +972 Magazine Staff After serving 150 days in military prison, the Israeli army released conscientious objector Ofir Averbukh late last week. Averbukh, 18, from…

By +972 Magazine November 6, 2017

Ofir Averbukh (Screenshot)

After 5 months in jail, it’s time to talk about why I refuse to serve

Ofir Averbukh has served more than 150 days in Israeli military prison for his refusal to be conscripted into the army. In the following interview, Ofir explains why he is only going public about his refusal now, and why Israeli youth should view choosing to be conscripted, not just refusing, as a decision of significant…

By Social TV October 27, 2017

An Israeli soldier stops asylum seekers from approaching the Egyptian border.

Soldiers testify on how IDF sent asylum seekers back to Egypt

Despite High Court rulings and official Defense Ministry procedures, Israeli soldiers sent back over 40 asylum seekers to Egypt in June 2015. The IDF top brass tried to cover up the incident. Israeli soldiers turned away two groups of Sudanese asylum seekers crossing into the country in June 2015, sending them back to Egypt in…

By Social TV October 26, 2017

Israeli settlers throw stones at Palestinians, as soldiers stand on the side, during an attack by Israeli settlers in the West Bank village of Asira al Qibliya, April 30, 2013. Settlers burned fields and threw stones at houses in the village after an Israeli settler was stabbed to death by a Palestinian man. (Photo by: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)

WATCH: Settlers attack Palestinian farmers near radical outpost

Soldiers put an end to the attack following the intervention of a human rights worker. By Eli Bitan Israeli settlers attacked a group of Palestinian farmers outside the West Bank city of Nablus Wednesday afternoon. According to Israeli NGO Rabbis from Human Rights, the settlers came from the direction of a newly-established settler outpost, Megini Ha’aretz, not far…

By +972 Magazine October 11, 2017

Ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with Israeli police during a protest against the arrest of a Haredi Jew who failed to comply with an IDF recruitment order, near the army recruiting office, Jerusalem, September 17, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox team up with left-wing Israelis to fight police brutality

In their struggle to combat the state’s attempt draft them into the army, ultra-Orthodox Israelis have faced unremitting police brutality. Now they are teaming up with left-wing and human rights activists to put a stop to the violence.

By Social TV October 8, 2017

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WATCH: Car repair shops transformed into art galleries in Israel’s north

It isn’t every day that you can see art exhibitions in a hummus shop, a mosque, a car garage. The Mediterranean Biennale aspires to take art out of the confines of the museum and to display works by artists from Israel, Palestine, the Middle East and Europe in unexpected, everyday locations.

By Social TV September 29, 2017