Palestinian Citizens of Israel

Israeli activists from the right-wing Im Tirtzu movement demonstrate next to Arab-Israeli and left-wing activist students during a rally marking the Nakba anniversary at Tel Aviv University, May 13, 2026. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

On Israeli campuses, Palestinian students are guilty until proven innocent

A new report exposes disciplinary apartheid in Israeli academia: Arab students suspended for social media posts, while calls to annihilate Gaza go unpunished.

By Gil Gertel October 1, 2026

Balad chairman Sami Abu Shehadeh virtually joins a Central Elections Committee hearing on a request to disqualify him from the upcoming elections, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, September 23, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinian MKs in Israel have long faced election bans. This time is different

From Ben Gvir to the Democrats, Israeli politicians have called to disqualify the Balad party chair — and the Supreme Court may no longer serve as a backstop.

By Samah Watad September 30, 2026

Eilat Maoz (courtesy)

PODCAST: The making of Israel’s Palestinian mafias

Eilat Maoz breaks down how organized crime took over Arab communities — and why it reveals the contradictions of Israeli state power.

By +972 Magazine September 24, 2026

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Head of Ra'am Mansour Abbas holds a joint press conference with new party member Yoav Segalovich in Nazareth, August 31, 2026. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Budgets for submission: What Israel’s opposition offers Palestinian citizens

The terms of Arab participation in Israeli politics haven’t changed in 80 years. While the Joint List remains sidelined, Ra’am has taken the deal.

By Waseem Hosary September 21, 2026

Jewish Israeli attends an event marking the fourth anniversary of the establishment of the Ramat Arbel settlement in the Lower Galilee, northern Israel, July 26, 2026. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

The Israeli right is rekindling a Zionist classic: Judaizing the Galilee

Ministers, NGOs, and news sites are joining forces to portray Palestinian urban growth in northern Israel as an ‘invasion’ and advance Jewish settlement.

By Baker Zoubi September 7, 2026

Medical staff at the underground level of Rambam Hospital in Haifa, September 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

The myth of Israel’s Arab doctors

Celebrated as proof of Israeli liberalism and vilified by the right, Palestinian physicians are in fact being quietly shut out of the profession.

By Baker Zoubi August 31, 2026

A first grade classroom at an Israeli school in Jerusalem, September 1, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israel is secretly surveilling its teachers. No prizes for guessing which ones

The Education Ministry is monitoring teachers online, searching not only for ‘incitement’ but mere criticism of the state — and 3 out of 4 targeted are Arab.

By Gil Gertel August 21, 2026

Thousands attend a protest against the epidemic of crime in the Palestinian community inside Israel, in Tel Aviv. January 31, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Amid genocide, Palestinian participation in Israel’s elections must be reimagined

Even if the vote cannot end settler-colonial rule, Palestinians in Israel should use their citizenship to protect their people and the conditions for resistance.

By Areej Sabbagh-Khoury August 12, 2026

Members of Knesset Mansour Abbas and Ahmad Tibi walking outside the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, June 3, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinians could decide Israel’s election. But their parties are at a stalemate

Core disputes over how to utilize political power may not be resolved in time to form a new Joint List — and competing parties are ready to capitalize.

By Samah Watad July 24, 2026

Tamer Nafar. (Courtesy)

‘Our role is to hold on’: Palestinian artists in Israel after October 7

Three Palestinian creatives grapple with their responsibility to make art that meets the moment while Israeli authorities stifle free expression.

By Tamer Nafar July 21, 2026

Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the Northern Branch of the islamic Movement, and Mohammad Barakeh, chairman of High Follow Up Committee, arrive for a visit at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, April 19, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

First Israel silenced Palestinian citizens. Now it turns to their leaders

Recent cases involving prominent Arab officials reveal the state's strategy: digging up old statements and seeking severe punishment in Israeli courts.

By Baker Zoubi July 6, 2026

New immigrants to Israel living in the southern town of Dimona study Hebrew at a state-sponsored ulpan, January 12, 1955. (Moshe Pridan/GPO)

Can Hebrew be decolonized?

For many, the language is indelibly linked to Zionism and now forever tainted by genocide. But it was not always so — and a growing movement of Palestinians and anti-Zionist Jews are attempting to reclaim it.

By Raphael Mimoun July 2, 2026

Residents salvage furniture before demolishing their homes, A-Sir, Israel, June 16, 2026. (Oren Ziv)

Hundreds of Bedouin left homeless as Israel ramps up Naqab expulsions

Residents of two unrecognized Palestinian villages were forced to dismantle their own homes — the latest chapter in a decades-long cycle of displacement.

By Oren Ziv June 24, 2026