Palestine

Israeli and Palestinian flags are seen at an anti-government demonstration in Tel Aviv, January 7, 2022. (Ahmad Al-Bazz)

The struggle brewing inside Israel’s anti-government movement

The far-right coalition has already provoked broad resistance from within Israeli society — but Palestine remains the elephant in the room.

By Haggai Matar January 12, 2023

The remains of the village of Qira are seen in front of Yokneam, southeast of Haifa. (Ahmad Al-Bazz)

In photos: Returning to Palestine’s depopulated villages

For the past six months, Ahmad Al-Bazz has traveled around the country, documenting what remains of the hundreds of villages, towns, and cities destroyed during the Nakba.

By Ahmad Al-Bazz May 15, 2022

Supermodel Bella Hadid, December 15, 2015. (Doug Inglish/CC BY 3.0)

‘Are we not allowed to be Palestinian on Instagram?’

Seeing Bella Hadid be vocal about Palestine is a delight rooted in a history of erasure and denial.

By Karim Kattan July 16, 2020

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Israeli police remove an Ethiopian-Israeli from a demonstration on Ayalon Highway following the police shooting of Solomon Tekah, July 2, 2019. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Ethiopians have an opportunity at solidarity with Palestinians. Will they take it?

Solomon Tekah was shot and killed by an Israeli police officer because he was black. As a Palestinian I know exactly what that feels like. By Ashraf Ghandour For over a week I have watched Ethiopian Israelis conduct a loud and righteous struggle against the systematic racism that has held them down for 35 years.…

By +972 Magazine July 9, 2019

The Abu Mutlaq family, with Ghalib holding a photo of his deceased daughter Aya. (Jen Marlowe)

Permission denied: Gaza children struggle to get medical care

With severe medicine shortages and an overstretched health care system in Gaza, children in need of medical treatments can only find them outside the strip. Yet Israel’s convoluted, arbitrary permit process leaves them waiting in pain, often missing life-saving care. By Jen Marlowe GAZA — Noha Saleh called me at seven in the morning on March 18 from Erez,…

By +972 Magazine June 20, 2019

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

Activists march in Boston, Mass. on October 25, 2014, calling for an end to police racial profiling and violence. The protest came in the wake of events in Ferguson, Mo., following the fatal shooting by police of an unarmed black man. (Activestills.org)

A masterclass in Palestine solidarity

By using his platform to elevate marginalized Palestinian views onto the global stage, Marc Lamont Hill’s UN speech challenged the unequal parameters of permissible thought on the conflict. Watching Marc Lamont Hill’s speech at the United Nations on Wednesday was like a breath of fresh air. Unlike the mundane and repetitive remarks made by aging…

By Amjad Iraqi November 30, 2018

Ahmad Badawi Mustafa Ayoub with his family. (Courtesy of Samer Badawi)

In my Palestinian grandfather’s story, I find reasons to endure

Like all refugees, Ahmad Badawi Mustafa Ayoub left the world unmoored, his memories rent from the land that made them. But his story, like Palestine’s itself, will matter well beyond the next negotiation. No empire, no flag, or sovereign can change that. The Government of Palestine’s Directorate of Education, from its Samaria branch in Nablus, informed Ahmad…

By Samer Badawi November 11, 2018

Israeli soldiers inspect Palestinian cars at the Beit Furik checkpoint, near Nablus, West Bank, May 27, 2015. (Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

Lost in Occupation: How Google Maps is erasing Palestine

A new report details the ways Google Maps’ mapping process in the occupied territories serves the interests of the Israeli government, while contradicting the company’s stated commitment to human rights. When Tariq Asedih plans a trip from his village near Nablus to Ramallah, Google Maps “can’t find a way” for the 36-kilometer journey. Instead, he has to…

By Henriette Chacar October 4, 2018

Medics evacuate a Palestinian protester who was shot by Israeli snipers during protests inside the Gaza Strip, May 14, 2018. (Mohammed Zaanoun/Activestills.org)

We are all accomplices to Israel’s massacre in Gaza

There has been no outrage. We all let this happen. But it is not too late to speak out. As of writing this, 52 Palestinian unarmed protesters in Gaza have been shot dead by Israeli snipers on Monday, and 2,238 have been wounded, over 1,000 by live ammunition, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Among those killed…

By Mairav Zonszein May 14, 2018

Shada Ardaa, 9, was wounded by an Israeli air strike in Rafah, Gaza strip, An-Najah hospital, Nablus, West Bank, August 5, 2014. (Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

Medical care for children in Gaza headed for the dark ages

What ails the Gaza Strip is not an incurable disease. We know the antidote that could immediately begin rebuilding the structural determinants of children’s right to life and health. By Priscilla Wathington Children in the Gaza Strip today are more likely to develop health problems than ever before but less likely to access medical care. And…

By +972 Magazine April 5, 2018

COMIC: A match made in heaven

By Noam Rabinovich

By +972 Magazine March 13, 2018

UC Berkeley students demonstrate after the student senate the student senate did not overturn a veto on a bill that would divest from American companies profiting off the occupation. (photo: Ramsey El-qarey)

How the Palestine movement taught me to confront anti-Semitism

On American university campuses, pro-Palestine activists are routinely smeared as anti-Semites seeking to destroy Israel. But contrary to what pro-Israel activists claim, the BDS movement has been instrumental in challenging anti-Semitism on the left. By Tom Pessah Anti-Semitism is unlike most other forms of hatred, in that it is both a form of bigotry and a false…

By +972 Magazine March 4, 2018