Palestinian struggle

PODCAST: What happened to the Palestinian popular struggle?

Veteran activist Munther Amira says the surge in violence and repression since October 7 has forced a rethink of what resistance means in the West Bank.

By +972 Magazine November 7, 2025

Israelis and Palestinians rally for an end to the war in Gaza, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, April 24, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

What is the role of Israelis in the Palestinian liberation movement?

The history of anti-colonial organizing shows there is room for joint struggle — but only if the partnership aims to promote true equality and justice.

By Fadi Shabita April 25, 2025

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attend the Washington Peace Conference, September 2, 2010. (photo: Moshe Milner/GPO)

Palestinians aren’t counting on Trump or Clinton for their liberation

Americans will still have a long way to go before they can decide what their country represents. Once they do, Palestinians can begin to care again about what happens in Washington. As a Palestinian contributor to +972, I have been struggling these past weeks with how to write about the US presidential election. Part of…

By Samer Badawi October 31, 2016

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Günay Kubilay. (photo: Avi Blecherman)

Pro-Kurdish leader: ‘We extend our hand to the Palestinian people’

Despite President Erdoğan’s control over the Turkish media and political persecution of minorities, the pro-Kurdish ‘Peoples’ Democratic Party’ has managed to become the third largest party in the country’s parliament. Günay Kubilay, one of its highest-ranking members speaks to +972’s Hebrew-language sister site, Local Call, about incitement and violence, Turkey’s disintegrating democracy, and the link between…

By +972 Magazine December 12, 2015

Israeli soldiers stop Palestinians at a flying check-point at the entrance to the West Bank city of Hebron, seen on June 15, 2014. A complete closure was put on the city after three Israeli teenagers went missing near a West Bank settlement. The three, all students at a Jewish seminary, went missing late on June 12 as they were hitchhiking between Bethlehem and Hebron and are believed to have been kidnapped. (Photo by Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

Reward activism and diplomacy, not violence

Far too many times Israel has mocked peace initiatives and adored violence. Altogether, it seems that the government is about to score major points in the propaganda war, only that each such victory is another step on the path to defeat. As Israeli news outlets moved to live coverage mode over the weekend, I had…

By Noam Sheizaf June 16, 2014

Women in Black. (photo by Activestills.org)

PHOTOS: Israeli women who have stood up to the occupation for 26 years

In honor of International Women’s Day, Activestills pays tribute to more than a quarter century of anti-occupation activism by the ‘Women in Black’ group in Israel. Every Friday since 1988, the women have stood in the main squares of cities or at highway junctions with signs calling to end the Israeli occupation. Often spat at, cursed or…

By Activestills March 7, 2014