October 2000 events

Israeli police arrest an Arab youth during a protest in Nazareth in northern Israel, October 8, 2015. (Omar Sameer/Activestills.org)

More police won’t solve Arab crime in Israel

The government is exploiting the shooting attack in Tel Aviv to disguise discriminatory policies against Palestinian citizens as an effort to bring the rule of law to an ‘unruly’ society. Prime Minister Netanyahu directed a range of comments at Israel’s Palestinian community Saturday night, speaking at the scene of a deadly shooting attack in Tel Aviv. A…

By Amjad Iraqi January 3, 2016

Israeli border police shoot tear gas at an anti-war protest organized by Palestinian citizens of Israel, Nazareth. At least 10 were arrested. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

‘When the police aren’t your protectors, there is no safety’

Palestinian citizens of Israel share the same fear of violence as Jews in recent weeks. But many of them don’t find security or comfort in Israel’s police forces, who seem to think that Palestinian citizens should accept that their rights and dignity must be compromised in order to make Jewish citizens feel safer. “We are…

By Amjad Iraqi October 19, 2015

Israeli Border Police officers aim assault rifles toward Arab demonstrators in northern Israel during the events of October 2000. (Courtesy of Adalah)

Palestinian citizens will always be enemies in a Jewish state

The Or Commission’s report on the October 2000 events was a symbolic indictment of Israel’s ‘enemy doctrine’ toward its Palestinian citizens. But Israel has not absorbed the lessons of the report, because demands for equality remain anathema to the state’s raison d’être. Twelve years ago, in its report on the events of October 2000, the Or…

By Amjad Iraqi October 7, 2015

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A child lays his head next to one of the Palestinians killed by Israeli police in early October 2000. (Photo courtesy of Adalah)

Thirteen killed, no one punished: Remembering October 2000

During a single week in October of 2000, Israeli Police shot dead 13 Palestinians — 12 of them Israeli citizens — who took to the streets to show solidarity with demonstrators in the West Bank and Gaza. The violence profoundly impacted the Palestinian community in Israel. Just as devastating, however, has been the complete absence of…

By Amjad Iraqi October 4, 2015

Church of Our Lady in Bir'em. Believers removed grafiti from its walls (Oren Ziv / Activestills)

Hope during wartime: A Palestinian return

The displaced former residents of Kafr Bir’im decided in the summer of 2013 to return to their village, and since then, they haven’t left. The author and his partner visited them one year later. By Eitan Bronstein Aparicio (translated by Ami Asher) We had to travel as far as Kafr Bir’em to find faith in…

By +972 Magazine July 30, 2014