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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (left) at a ceremony to mark Yisrael Beitenu joining the coalition. (photo: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Israelis are no longer buying what Netanyahu is selling

Never has a prime minister appointed a defense minister so far beyond the consensus. For the first time in a decade, it feels like fewer people truly buy into Bibi’s lies and theatrics. By Alon Mizrahi Throughout his years in the public spotlight, Netanyahu and his advisors have been successful at doing one thing: to…

By +972 Magazine May 30, 2016

Right-wing activists shout at Palestinian activists, during a protest for the release of Palestinian Mohammed Allan, who is held by Israel without trial and who has slipped into a coma after a nearly two-month hunger strike, in the city of Ashkelon, August 16, 2015. Police prevented from Palestinian and Israeli activists to arrive to the hospital in which Allan is held, arresting eight activists, using pepper spray and skunk water canon. (photos: Keren Manor / Activestills.org)

What will wake Israelis from their collective coma?

Our collective moral compass has become so fundamentally twisted that even the most decent of people, those who are not considered extremists, believe that there is nothing wrong with shooting a man as he lies dying on the ground. One of the more dangerous and frustrating aspects of the fascism taking over the Jewish-Israeli public, led…

By Orly Noy March 26, 2016

Relatives of Palestinian baby Ali Saad Dawabsha grieve after he was murdered in an arson attack on a Palestinian house, Duma, West Bank, July 31. 2015. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

+972 Magazine’s 25 most-read posts of 2015

You, our readers, voted with your clicks. The following is a list of the most popular articles we published this past year. By +972 Magazine Staff 25. Photo exhibit challenges Zionism’s most popular myth Using haunting aerial photographs of the Negev Desert, American artist Fazal Sheikh challenges the notion that the desert was an unpopulated,…

By +972 Magazine December 16, 2015

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Palestinians protest at the entrance to the city of Umm al-Fahm, against the recent attack against a mosque in the city, April 21, 2014. On April 18, the door of a mosque in the city was set on fire and graffiti reading "Arabs out" was sprayed outside. (photo: Activestills.org)

Outlawing the Islamic Movement is a gift to Palestinian citizens

Outlawing the northern branch of the Islamic Movement is yet another McCarthyist step by the Israeli state. But if anyone thinks this will bring an end to the movement, they are dead wrong. Say what you will about the Jewish state, just don’t say that the only democracy on the planet never stops challenging us.…

By Rami Younis November 17, 2015

Netanyahu and the Mufti memes, part deux

From The Simpsons, to Seinfeld to Joe Biden, Israelis keep poking fun at their prime minister for his comments earlier this week, in which he seemingly absolving Hitler of responsibility for the Holocaust. (See part one.) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shocked a good part of the population of earth when he seemingly absolved Adolf…

By +972 Magazine October 22, 2015