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Israel’s economy was Netanyahu’s crown jewel. Can apartheid survive without it?
The prime minister did not foresee that the judicial coup would undermine one of the core elements protecting Israel's apartheid regime.
By
Nimrod Flaschenberg
March 27, 2023
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
The occupation has left Israel’s health system unequipped to handle a pandemic
Endless occupation and neoliberal policies have made it impossible for Israel to maintain a functioning public health system that is able to respond to the outbreak of COVID-19.
By
Shlomo Swirski
and
Barbara Swirski
April 19, 2020
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The most critical issues Israelis won’t be voting on in the next election
Israelis will head to the polls next April to elect a new government. But none of the major parties are offering any real change when it comes to the occupation or social justice issues. This is where the left has a role to play. Amid a number of coalition crises and the possibility of an indictment against Prime Minister Benjamin…
By
Haggai Matar
December 24, 2018
Yes, Corbynism poses a threat — but not to Britain’s Jews
Smearing Jeremy Corbyn as an anti-Semite has become a popular hobby among members of the British establishment — perhaps because what he stands for is a direct threat to their ideological and economic interests. By Matan Kaminer Last week, Haaretz columnist Anshel Pfeffer accused UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn of being both anti-Semitic and stupid. He is wrong…
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July 30, 2018
How the occupation dictates Israeli economic policy
The longer military rule over millions of Palestinians persists, the less Israel will invest in education, health, and welfare. By Shlomo Swirski The hasty and rather under-reported deliberations on Israel’s 2019 state budget, approved by the Knesset on Thursday, present us with an opportunity to raise an important question: should the country stick to the policy…
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March 18, 2018
The true price Israel pays for the occupation
Both the economic and political elite in Israel benefit from the occupation in different ways. The longer the occupation persists, the wider become the gaps between these two ‘1 percents’ and the rest of the country. By Shlomo Swirski What is the cost to Israel of the occupation? And who in Israel is paying it?…
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May 17, 2017
Shared and shattered: Gentrification and Judaization in Jaffa
Over the past 70 years, the city of Jaffa has gone from being the ‘Bride of Palestine’ to the ‘Arab backyard’ of Tel Aviv. Today, as it undergoes rapid gentrification, Jaffa has become a central hub for both Palestinian and Jewish resistance. Israeli anthropologist Daniel Monterescu speaks to Fathom editor Alan Johnson about his new new book,…
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+972 Magazine
February 4, 2017
A patriotic death, not only on the battlefield
Israeli economic and social policies are turning a growing number of people into a burden, a surplus cost that can be saved by withdrawing benefits and tightening up welfare criteria. These people are branded as work-shy, cheats and parasites. Against this background, it is clear that even though the National Program for the Prevention of…
By
Haokets
July 12, 2015
The economic costs of military rule
Israelis cannot treat the occupation as something that merely affects them in the eyes in the world while their economy keeps paying a heavy price for its continuation. By Shlomo Swirski and Yarom Hoffman Dishon The social-economic cost of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is spoken about far less than the human cost or the price Israel…
By
Haokets
June 6, 2015
What’s behind Israel’s biggest economic boom? The occupation
The period of Israel’s history that by far saw the largest economic growth, more than any other, was the six years following the Six Day War. And what agricultural, industrial, or hi-tech breakthroughs took place around 1967-1973? None worthy of mention. More than any other single factor, it was the establishment of the Occupation-Settlement Enterprise.…
By
Haokets
October 28, 2013
Middle-class rage is upsetting Netanyahu’s apple-cart
Israel is experiencing a new and unexpected mass upheaval: its lower and middle-classes are in revolt against a massive decline in its standard of living, due to neoliberal policies of market liberalization over the last decades. But this also stems from the huge indirect costs to the taxpayer who supports the occupation By Eyal Clyne…
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August 7, 2011
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