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A Palestinian woman and children pass the slogan "Gas the Arabs! JDL" spray-painted on an exterior wall of the Cordoba School for Palestinian children near Shuhada Street, Hebron, October 22, 2012. "JDL" stands for Jewish Defense League, an extremist group founded by Meir Kahane and designated as a terrorist group by the FBI. Baruch Goldstein was a charter member of the JDL, which has designated him "a martyr in Judaism's protracted struggle against Arab terrorism."

A rotten system, not just rotten apples

Settler violence against human rights activists is not the work of a few ‘rotten apples,’ but rather a government-backed strategy that could have dangerous consequences. We should be taking it deathly seriously. By Libby Lenkinski Over the last few weeks, the settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron have ramped up their harassment of…

By +972 Magazine August 1, 2018

An Israeli man makes a lewd gesture toward a joint Israeli-Palestinian peace march in the West Bank, November 27, 2015. (Mustafa Bader/Activestills.org)

With the Right firmly in power, Israel’s ‘peace camp’ turns on itself

In a new campaign against an attempt to legalize the most blatant settler land theft, dozens of left-wing Zionist heavyweights instead blame the ‘radical left’ for the absence of peace. Several dozen Israeli academic, cultural and military heavyweights published full-page ads in two leading Israeli newspapers Friday morning denouncing a proposed law that would retroactive…

By Haggai Matar December 31, 2016

Naomi Chazan: An undemocratic Israel will not last a minute

In a conference in Berlin on Israeli-German relations, Israeli speakers ask Germany to become the ‘true’ friend that Israel needs. (Berlin, GERMANY) – “No self respecting democracy in the world can accept the current wave of anti-democratic legislation in Israel,” said New Israel Fund President Naomi Chazan in Berlin this weekend. Chazan, a former Meretz…

By Ami Kaufman February 20, 2012

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+972 Magazine’s People of the Year 2010

The shortlist of 972’s people of the year 2010, chosen by the site’s bloggers Anat Kamm, former IDF soldier accused of leaking top secret documents to Haaretz reporter Uri Blau One day this March, my girlfriend went for a routine job interview. When she returned she had a story to tell: “You’ll never believe how…

By +972 Magazine December 30, 2010

Placard from the human rights rally: "Democrat" (photo: Dimi Reider)

The refugees march: Notes from the human rights rally

(All photos by yours truly) Like my fellow blogger Yuval Ben Ami, I too was at the march and I too was cheered by the warm, familial, and above all confident atmosphere. But there was one moment that took my breath away. One of the key human rights issues today in Israel is that of…

By Dimi Reider December 11, 2010