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We’re facing unprecedented horror. Why is Biden adding fuel to the fire?
With the climate in Israel-Palestine reviving the fears of May 2021, the U.S. should be preventing further massacres, not allowing Israel to take revenge.
By
Rami Younis
October 9, 2023
Religious Zionists want to Judaize Akka. Palestinians are pushing back
Like other ‘mixed cities,’ Akka has long been a target of right-wing Jewish groups wanting to break up Palestinian communities across the country.
By
Baker Zoubi
June 12, 2023
How Akka’s Palestinians fought back against Israel’s mass arrest campaign
Israeli police launched a repressive operation against Palestinian citizens following last year's violence in 'mixed cities.' Abandoned by local leaders, activists built their own initiatives to support detainees and their families.
By
Vera Sajrawi
November 28, 2022
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FILM: Palestinians in ‘mixed cities’ recount the horrors of May 2021
In a series of testimonies, Palestinians from Jaffa and Lydd recount the terrifying days when settler and police violence overwhelmed their cities.
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+972 Magazine
May 19, 2022
What’s behind the Israeli right’s renewed war on Palestinian citizens?
Having moved on from its failed bid to formally annex the West Bank, the Israeli right has trained its sights back on an old target.
By
Meron Rapoport
February 10, 2022
Israeli settlers have a new target, and it’s not in the West Bank
A march by Jewish extremists in Lydd is a fresh reminder that the far right is intent on showing Palestinian citizens in ‘mixed cities’ who is in charge.
By
Samah Salaime
December 9, 2021
Mixed city holds Israel’s first ever Jewish-Arab pride event
Thursday’s event is the first pride event ever to include a speech by an Arab MK. ‘We cannot demand respect while disparaging the other. It is impossible to fight for my equality and not for that of others,’ MK Issawi Frej told the crowd. Over 150 members of the LGBTQ community and their supporters took part in a joint…
By
Haggai Matar
July 27, 2018
Palestinian citizen attacked in suspected hate crime
Amad Abu Sharah was walking home from morning prayers when he was allegedly jumped by a group of men with sticks. (See update below) Amad Abu Sharah, a Palestinian citizen and activist from Lydd (Lod in Hebrew), was attacked in the early hours of Sunday morning at the entrance to his house on his way…
By
Samah Salaime
August 2, 2015
Demolishing Arab women’s homes is the easy way out
What are Arab citizens expected to do when the city only builds for Jews, and why do single mothers almost always pay the price? (Translated from Hebrew by Eppie Bat Ilan) On the surface, it was just another illegal dwelling demolished in the city of Lyd (“Lod” in Hebrew). The image of a violence, crime-ridden…
By
Samah Salaime
February 18, 2015
Home demolitions: A reminder that the Nakba never ended
The destruction of Hanaa’ al-Naqib’s home in Lydd this week is a reminder that Israel’s dispossession of Palestinians didn’t end in 1948 — it has simply taken on new forms. We could hear the wailing all the way from the entrance to the besieged neighborhood. It was a heartbreaking sound. We quietly make our way…
By
Rami Younis
February 13, 2015
Jews, Arabs work to resist racist municipal election campaign
In the face of a nationalistic mayoral campaign by the local Likud chapter, a group of Jews and Arabs in Karmiel choose to focus on eliminating gaps, building public housing and creating a city where everyone can live together as equals. By Dov Caller and Alan Traister “If the Arabs keep coming, Jews will leave…
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+972 Magazine
October 11, 2013
A matter of choice: Why optimism is integral to anti-occupation activism
Often times pessimism is caused by choosing to remain a spectator, and pretending to remain powerless instead of taking responsibility and deciding to act according to what one believes. But what does this mean, and how do you do it? By Tom Pessah In a recent +972 post, Noam Sheizaf wrote that “there is something…
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December 12, 2012
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