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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gives a press statement in Jerusalem, January 31, 2023. (Emil Salman/POOL)

The US policy world can’t imagine Palestinians as equals

The refusal of American policy figures to consider alternatives to the two-state solution betrays the fact that they will always prioritize Israeli domination.

By Tariq Kenney-Shawa May 11, 2023

Young Palestinian men sit by a section of the separation wall in the West Bank city of Abu-Dis, September 29, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Does Israel-Palestine need any ‘state’ solution?

What does it mean to pursue regime change as a path for transformation in Israel-Palestine — and is it enough to bring about justice?

By Diana B. Greenwald July 28, 2021

Israeli troops confiscate a vegetables vendor as they guard construction work by a main road south of Hebron in the West Bank on December 16, 2019. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Why B’Tselem is calling Israel an apartheid regime, from the river to the sea

One of Israel's top human rights groups recognizes the occupation cannot be viewed in isolation from the goal of Jewish supremacy inside the Green Line.

By Orly Noy January 12, 2021

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in Jerusalem. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Biden warned of Israeli annexation 50 years ago. Will he finally stop it?

Progressives should remind Biden of his early moral clarity on Israel's occupation — and that rhetoric without action is what has helped sustain it.

By Hagai El-Ad November 30, 2020

Former deputy mayor of Jerusalem, Meron Benvenisti. July 24, 2008. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Saying goodbye to the Israeli one-state prophet

Though we were intellectual rivals, Meron Benvenisti, writer and former deputy mayor of Jerusalem, was right about one big thing.

By Ian S. Lustick September 25, 2020

Marc Lamont Hill participates in a CNN panel, August 29, 2014. (Screenshot/CNN)

CNN caves to anti-Palestinian smear campaign

CNN fired commentator Marc Lamont Hill for calling for a free Palestine, after some claimed he meant the destruction of Israel. But his statement is no more a call for the destruction of Israel than the end of Jim Crow was the destruction of America. By Omar Baddar “All the people that live in the…

By +972 Magazine November 30, 2018

A Palestinian child sitting in front of a section of the Separation Wall in the refugee camp of Shuafat, East Jerusalem, December 27, 2011. (Photo: Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Demographic parity is an existential challenge for Israel

Israel can either choose to undo the apartheid reality or face what apartheid breeds — resistance. By Marzuq Al-Halabi A country founded on the idea of segregation between peoples and communities will always have to deal with demographics. A country founded as the result of conquest and colonization of indigenous people and their land will,…

By +972 Magazine March 29, 2018

Palestinians from the West Bank cross through Qalandyia checkpoint to attend evening prayers in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque, June 21, 2017. Israeli authorities allowed women of all ages and men over 40 to enter Jerusalem without permits on Fridays during the month of Ramadan only. (Ahmad al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

Palestinians are the majority. Is it apartheid yet?

Israel has always valued Jewish supremacy over democracy. But new demographics could bolster the Palestinians’ efforts to challenge this system. A resounding fear struck many Knesset members this week upon hearing that, on both sides of the Green Line, Palestinians may now outnumber Jews, 6.8 million people to 6.5 million. The statistics were given to…

By Amjad Iraqi March 28, 2018

A Palestinian youth opens a gate in the Israeli wall, during a protest marking 12 years for the struggle against the wall and the occupation in the West Bank village of Bil'in, February 17, 2017.

One state or two states? You’re asking the wrong question

What we desperately need now is to go back to the basics and recognize that guaranteeing Palestinians’ rights is the foundation for any political solution. A new poll reveals that following Trump’s Jerusalem declaration there has been a drop in support for the two-state solution among both Israeli Jews and Palestinians in the occupied territories – with both…

By Haggai Matar January 29, 2018