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JFREJ members handing out pamphlets during a "Day Against Hate" event, New York City, March 16, 2020. (JFREJ)

A different vision for keeping New York’s Jews safe

A New York rally conflating the IDF emblem with Jewish identity does nothing to fight antisemitism in the city. True safety comes from building solidarity.

By Leo Ferguson and Sophie Ellman-Golan January 12, 2022

Jewish protesters are arrested after disrupting the Celebrate Israel parade in Manhattan, New York City, June 4, 2017. (Jewish Voice for Peace)

Jewish activists arrested for protesting New York pro-Israel parade

New York’s annual, lavishly-funded Celebrate Israel parade was interrupted by scores of American Jewish activists, several of whom were arrested in the process. Seven Jewish protesters were arrested in New York on Sunday afternoon as over 100 activists disrupted the annual Celebrate Israel parade. The event, which sees thousands of participants march down Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue accompanied…

By Natasha Soffer-Roth June 5, 2017

Dorit Rabinyan. (Isaac Shokal)

The Jewish-Arab love story that threatened Israel’s national identity

‘All the Rivers,’ the latest book by Dorit Rabinyan, generated international headlines when it was banned from Israel’s high school curriculum for depicting a Jewish-Arab romance. On the occasion of its publication in English, +972 Magazine speaks with the author about the ban and its fallout, and about traversing boundaries. In December 2015, Israel’s Education Ministry…

By Dahlia Scheindlin May 1, 2017

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Activists held up signs in support of Iran deal at a Brooklyn town hall meeting with Democratic Congressman Hakeem Jeffries. August 11, 2015. (Twitter)

Jewish Iran deal supporters booted from New York town hall meeting

When a group of New York activists stood silently in support of the Iran deal at a meeting in Brooklyn, they were accused of being ‘Arabs’ and wishing to send Jews off to the ‘gas chambers.’ By +972 Magazine Staff Four Jewish activists were booed and shown the door when they expressed their support for…

By +972 Magazine August 13, 2015

Footage of the Muhammad al-Dura shooting (Screenshot: France 2)

‘Pallywood’: A particularly ugly ethnic slur

And a very popular one among right-wing Israelis and Diaspora Jews. I’ve been writing for years against the “Pallywood” theory – the right-wing notion that videos showing Palestinians getting killed by Israelis are really elaborate fakes meant to blacken Israel’s name. Yet it’s only this morning I realized that the term “Pallywood,” which was coined…

By Larry Derfner November 15, 2014

Jerusalem Formula 1 Road Show. (photo: Eugene Kaspersky CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Formula 1 promo de-Arabizes Jerusalem skyline

Q: If you’re the Jerusalem mayor, how do you market your city to tourists? A: Erase all the non-Jewish landmarks. By Eldad Brin Take a second to look at the new logo for the second annual Jerusalem Formula 1 Road Show: Let’s put aside the fact that the promotional logo, which was printed and put up…

By +972 Magazine October 6, 2014

New York City. (photo: flickr/Tony the Misfit)

America can give the Middle East more than money and arms: Inspiration

New York City is at its spiffiest these days, so much so that sometimes when visiting, especially during these fresh days of spring, I have flashes of being in Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood. A hopeless nostalgic, the Technicolor contrast to the lurking, brooding grime of the city I grew up in sometimes tugs at me. But…

By Dahlia Scheindlin April 1, 2013

Where were the Palestinian voices at the Russell Tribunal on Palestine?

The Russell Tribunal is meant to expose and provide accountability for human rights abuses committed by Israel against Palestinians. But in privileging ‘expert’ voices over those of the victims, does it actually reinforce dominant power structures? By Elisha Baskin The fourth and final session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine took place this past weekend…

By +972 Magazine October 13, 2012