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For Palestinian filmmakers in Israel, it’s loyalty or silence
Israel’s persecution of actor and filmmaker Mohammad Bakri reflects its desire to censor stories of the occupation while gloating about being a ‘democracy.’
By
Suha Arraf
January 15, 2021
A pro-Netanyahu rally turns into a forum for deep state conspiracies
Like Trump’s base, the speakers and audience at Tuesday night's pro-Netanyahu rally in Tel Aviv seemed convinced that someone else is managing their country behind the scenes.
By
Oren Ziv
November 27, 2019
Palestinian jailed for poems appeals conviction
Dareen Tatour was convicted of incitement to violence and support for terrorism in her poetry. Rescinding the charges won’t exonerate her completely, but it would allow her to continue writing. By Yoav Haifawi In ordinary trials, after a defendant has finished serving their sentence, one can safely assume that the legal drama is over. There…
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January 4, 2019
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What does the future hold for non-Jews in the Jewish state?
A new book about Israel’s crusade against asylum seekers and undocumented workers strikes at an essential truth about the precarious status of non-Jews in a self-defined Jewish state. “The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel’s New Others,” Mya Guarnieri Jaradat, Pluto Press, 2017. In a small apartment in south Tel Aviv, a Filipina woman hides her…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
May 4, 2017
50 reasons to resist the occupation in its 50th year
Fifty reasons to join a growing coalition united in creating a more just future in the region, in order to make the 50th year of the occupation its last. By Talia Krevsky and Isaac Kates Rose 1. January 1: The onset of the 50th year of violating the Fourth Geneva Convention through Israel’s military occupation over…
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March 30, 2017
The cultural terrorism of Miri Regev
By threatening the livelihood of Palestinian theater workers, Regev is committing cultural terrorism: she is putting people’s livelihoods at risk — people whose only sin is holding different political principles. In an interview Monday morning, Culture Minister Miri Regev revealed her true intentions to Army Radio host Razi Barkai: she wishes to shut down Haifa’s Al-Midan, the only…
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Rami Younis
March 28, 2017
Unpacking anti-Arab racism in Israel
A new law aiming to silence the Muslim call to prayer is just one manifestation of efforts to erase Palestinian culture and identity. But language and heritage aren’t so easy to disappear. There is a building on Michelangelo Street in Jaffa, near where I used to live, which for a while featured the sentiment “We have no other country” graffitied…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
February 15, 2017
Israelis post anti-Arab racism online every 46 seconds, study finds
A new study shows that Israeli Jews publushed 675,000 racist posts on social media in 2016 — a dangerous increase from 2015, when only 280,000 such posts were published. Every 46 seconds an Israeli Jew publishes a racist or inciting comment against Arabs on Facebook and other social networks, a new study finds. According to the Arab…
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Rami Younis
February 13, 2017
A tunnel in the service of nationalism
Israeli politicians use problematic archeological findings to drum up support for exclusionary nationalist narratives under East Jerusalem. By Yonathan Mizrahi “I didn’t think I would be so excited,” said Culture Minister Miri Regev. “Mr. President Obama, I am standing here on the path that my forefathers walked 2,000 years ago. There is not another nation…
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Haokets
January 4, 2017
Elor Azaria and the army of the periphery
From the army’s perspective, Azaria’s guilty verdict ostensibly answers the critique that it is unable to deal with soldier violence against Palestinians — or that it doesn’t want to. But there is one reason and one reason only that the lowly soldier was indicted to begin with. An Israeli military court handed down a guilty…
By
Edo Konrad
January 4, 2017
German bank shuts down account belonging to Jewish peace group
Bank für Sozialwirtschaft tells members of Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East, which includes a number of Israelis, that its account has been closed due to their support for BDS. Can a Jewish organization with Israeli members be considered anti-Semitic? Is it the job of a German bank to make that…
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Haggai Matar
December 8, 2016
Israel’s culture minister likens wildfires to anti-Jewish pogroms
Miri Regev says current wildfires tearing through are simply a continuation of the massacres committed against Jews in the 20th century. Miri Regev is the latest leader to join the chorus of Israeli government ministers inciting against the country’s Palestinian citizens over the past week, fueling allegations that Palestinians have been behind the hundreds of wildfires tearing…
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Edo Konrad
November 27, 2016
The Right’s new spin: Israel demolishes only Jewish homes
In their attempt to prove allegiance to the settlers, right-wing ministers are finding creative new ways of misleading the public. The controversy over the slated evacuation of a West Bank outpost reached a fever pitch this past week, with government ministers trying to outdo each other to prove their allegiance to the 50 families living in…
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Noam Sheizaf
November 15, 2016
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