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Mayasem Abu Alqian at his home in Hura, May 25, 2017. (Michal Rotem)

Israelis’ heartwarming response to shocking police brutality

The brutal police beating of a young Bedouin man outside his Tel Aviv workplace, where he was working to save money for university tuition, leads hundreds of Israelis to pitch in and pay his tuition. (Update: the crowdfunding campaign has reached 200 percent of its original goal.) By Michal Rotem Mayasem Abu Alqian, a 19-year-old…

By +972 Magazine May 25, 2016

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking in front of Israeli flags, July 20, 2014. (Photo by Haim Zach / GPO)

The ‘Jewish Nation-State Law’: Turning liberal Zionism on its head

Cementing the supremacy of national group rights over individual minority rights upends the precarious balance between Jewish and democratic, upon which liberal Zionism relies. For the ‘Nation-State Law’s authors and political patrons, however, this is just the beginning. Liberal Zionists of all stripes tend to have one thing in common: the belief — or at…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man November 28, 2014

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

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