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How Israel’s emergency plans widened the south’s class divides
Four teachers at an Ashkelon high school reveal how the state’s handling of Oct. 7 evacuees played into racial, economic, and geographic inequalities.
By
Roy Cohen
January 10, 2024
A lesson on Israeli ‘democracy’ from an 18-year-old draft refuser
Previous generations of Israelis closed their eyes to the oppression of Palestinians, Mizrahim, and asylum seekers. Our generation can be different.
By
Yahli Agai
September 5, 2023
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
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Adi Golan Bikhnafo
May 15, 2023
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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
Good riddance to Rabin Square
The closure of Rabin Square presents an opportunity for the Zionist left to let go of its former leader’s legacy and embrace a politics of decolonization.
By
Ben Reiff
November 3, 2021
Who fought in 1948?
A new book uncovers letters by Jewish and Arab fighters from the 1948 war, highlighting the personal lives of those who fought to establish Israel and those who tried to defend Palestine.
By
Tom Pessah
September 22, 2021
In the heart of Tel Aviv, a working class Mizrahi neighborhood fights its forced displacement
Israeli authorities and real estate moguls have for decades been displacing the residents of Givat Amal, who were sent to the neighborhood in the 50's to stop Palestinian refugees from returning to their land. Now, those who remain are struggling over the only home they've ever known.
By
Oren Ziv
September 19, 2021
Zionism has no space for an Arab Jew like me
The State of Israel conditioned us to see the intersection of 'Jewish' and 'Arab' as impossible — even though my family held that identity for generations.
By
Hadar Cohen
September 9, 2021
In one kibbutz, coexistence becomes an existential threat
The struggle to access a river in northern Israel has become a symbol of the discrimination Mizrahim face — and the myths Zionism tells about this land.
By
Omri Najad
August 16, 2021
Farewell to Ezra Nawi, a Mizrahi Jew who refused to live by Zionism’s rules
Nawi gave his body, mind, and possessions to the most vulnerable Palestinians. This made him a threat to the Israeli regime — and its easiest prey.
By
Orly Noy
January 31, 2021
As a Mizrahi, I know identity politics is not enough
I was supposed to be floating above the Dubai Marina looking on as my dream of regional peace came true. But these deals serve the elites, not the people.
By
Khen Elmaleh
January 8, 2021
There is no defeating the right without Israel’s oppressed groups
If the Balfour protests are only interested in removing Netanyahu, it will not matter to their leaders how racist the alternative will be.
By
Tom Mehager
January 5, 2021
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