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Palestinian student speaks at a Nakba commemoration event outside Tel Aviv University, May 2013 (photo: Activestills.org)
Following right-wing attacks, museum seeks to cancel ‘Right of Return Conference’
Tel Aviv’s Eretz Israel Museum has been under increasing pressure to cancel Zochrot’s second international conference. Recently, the museum presented new conditions to the organizers, including paying for increased security and changing the wording on the event invitation. An international conference by Zochrot, an Israeli NGO which focuses on the Nakba and the “right of…
By Noam Sheizaf August 27, 2013
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“Palestinian narrative of 1948 is not immune.” A response
Journalist and historian Gershom Gorenberg answers Joseph Dana and Noam Sheizaf’s criticism on his recent writings —This post was updated with responses from Joseph Dana and Gershom Gorenberg— By Gershom Gorenberg I’ve recently read Joseph’s piece mentioning me and Noam’s piece responding to my book excerpt in Slate. Out of respect for +972 and its…
By +972 Magazine December 14, 2011
A settler’s argument for the right of return
By Eliaz Cohen | Translation: Dimi Reider The story of the return of the descendants of the members of Kfar Etzion, a Jewish kibbutz destroyed in the war of 1948, can offer a healing model to the conflict between the two nations in this one country. For over sixty years, Israel’s independence and Palestine’s Nakba…
By +972 Magazine February 20, 2011
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Culture flourishes in a declining democracy (Mati Shemoelof)
Last week I was at a dinner with the North American management of Rabbis for Human Rights. They met with some of the +972 Magazine bloggers. The conversation was mainly about the decline of Israeli democracy.  Yossi Gurvitz, Dimi Reider and others were very pessimistic about the survival of the Israeli democracy. They gave reports…
By +972 Magazine November 7, 2010
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