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From Salama to Kfar Shalem: How Mizrahim fit into the ongoing Nakba
The expulsion of Salama’s Palestinians, the settling of Mizrahi Jews in their place, and the eviction of those residents decades later reveals the mechanism by which Israel continues to erase Palestinian existence.
By
Doron Yacov
and
Adi Golan Bikhnafo
May 15, 2023
An Israeli Black Panther’s call for true democracy
We did not get to taste one drop of the promises in the Declaration of Independence. Now we must gather all the oppressed groups we have ignored.
By
Reuven Abergel
May 8, 2023
The dilemmas of the Mizrahi left in the Israeli protest movement
Prof. Smadar Lavie discusses the possibilities and contradictions of the Ashkenazi-dominated protests against the government, and traces the efforts of a small cohort of Mizrahi activists to make their voices heard.
By
Shane Burley
and
Ben Lorber
March 28, 2023
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The far right always has a next target
The threat to Israel's LGBTQ community underlines how a state designed to eject a particular group from its midst will always look for new targets.
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
January 21, 2023
The rebellion of Israel’s second army
Outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi hands over to his successor a ‘policing army’ that is more autonomous, settler-led, and lethal than ever.
By
Yagil Levy
December 26, 2022
‘Ragged rats’: London exhibit captures the racism that tore apart Mizrahi families
The new exhibition highlights the overlooked role of diaspora Zionist organizations in the kidnapping and adoption of Israel’s Yemenite children.
By
Leeor Ohayon
December 1, 2022
The sheriff comes for his share of the colony’s spoils
Like Andrew Jackson in 19th century America, Ben Gvir represents a settler underclass demanding the full privileges derived from native dispossession.
By
Avi-ram Tzoreff
December 1, 2022
Piecing together the fragments of our Arab-Jewish identity
Siblings Yoni and Sivan Battat discuss how collaborating on the former's music album became a means of reconnecting with their Iraqi family and heritage, and of disentangling Mizrahiness from Israeliness.
By
Yoni Battat
and
Sivan Battat
November 17, 2022
The Mizrahi feminists shaking up Israel’s human rights scene
A new movement is bringing a fresh model to the struggle for the rights of Israeli society’s most invisible and marginalized groups. Can it succeed?
By
Ben Reiff
April 12, 2022
PODCAST: The Jewish comedian calling out apartheid in Arabic
From Tel Aviv to East Jerusalem and New York, Noam Shuster-Eliassi is using comedy to deliver home truths about injustice in Israel-Palestine.
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
February 25, 2022
The Mizrahi left at a crossroads
On the verge of closure, a magazine that served as the ideological home of Israel’s Mizrahi left lives another day. But what do its financial woes reveal about the movement’s struggle in Israeli society?
By
Ben Reiff
December 16, 2021
This Israeli leftist wants his camp to break the Tel Aviv bubble
Activist and Meretz member Avi Dabush explains what the Israeli left gets wrong about towns like Sderot, their Mizrahim, and their views on Gaza.
By
Noam Sheizaf
November 30, 2021
Farewell to Givat Amal: Police evict last residents of Mizrahi neighborhood
Seven decades ago, Israel settled over 100 Mizrahi families in Givat Amal, formerly a Palestinian village. Now, the Tel Aviv neighborhood is empty — with no guarantee of proper compensation for its former residents.
By
Oren Ziv
November 15, 2021
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