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Avi Dabush who came in ninth at Meretz primaries after the release of the results in the primaries in Tel Aviv, February 14, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

This Israeli leftist wants his camp to break the Tel Aviv bubble

Activist and Meretz member Avi Dabush explains what the Israeli left gets wrong about towns like Sderot, their Mizrahim, and their views on Gaza.

By Noam Sheizaf November 30, 2021

Rabbi Moshe Yehudai is evacuated from the village of Burin during an olive harvest after being attacked by Israeli settlers from the nearby settlement of Yitzhar. (Rabbis for Human Rights)

Settlers attack olive harvesters, Israeli volunteers in West Bank village

Masked settlers uproot olive trees, set groves ablaze, and beat several Israeli volunteers with stones and metal rods in the West Bank village of Burin. Masked men from the settlement of Yitzhar wielding metal rods and stones attacked volunteers from Rabbis for Human Rights, a human rights organization based in Israel, while they were picking…

By Oren Ziv October 16, 2019

Palestinian construction workers build a new house in the West Bank settlement of Har Gilo, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, Monday, Sept. 7, 2009.
(Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Settlers to Palestinian laborers: ‘Work with human rights groups and lose your job’

Flyers posted in villages near Gush Etzion warn Palestinian laborers they will be banned from nearby settlements should they cooperate with anti-occupation groups. Settlers in the southern West Bank posted flyers warning Palestinian laborers not to cooperate with Israeli human rights activists or organizations if they want to keep their jobs. Tazpit News Agency, a settler-aligned English-language…

By Edo Konrad February 4, 2019

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Salah holds a picture of himself herding sheep. al-Jabal, June 12, 2018. (Oren Ziv / Activestills.org)

‘They destroyed everything’: Israel’s decades-long war against the Jahalin Bedouin

Expelled by Israeli forces from the Negev, then forced to live next to a garbage dump, the Jahalin Bedouin have lost their ancestral homes and their traditional way of life. The impending forced displacement of Khan al-Ahmar is just the latest struggle in the Bedouin tribe’s history of dispossession. Just outside the Palestinian town of…

By Joshua Leifer June 13, 2018

Israeli settlers throw rocks near the Palestinian town of Jit on Wednesday. (Courtesy of Yesh Din)

WATCH: Settlers throw stones at Palestinian homes in revenge attacks

Dozens of Israeli settlers throw stones at Palestinian cars and houses following the murder of Rabbi Raziel Shevach near the illegal settlement outpost of Havat Gilad. Israeli settlers carried out a string of revenge attacks targeting Palestinian civilians following the killing of Rabbi Raziel Shevach in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. Shevach, 35 and a father…

By Joshua Leifer January 11, 2018

A screenshot from a video of soldiers beating a Palestinian detainee in Hebron.

Will Israel investigate the beatings of Palestinian detainees?

A new video in which soldiers beat a handcuffed Palestinian detainee poses a challenge to Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked: will she call to investigate this incident, or are investigations reserved solely for persecuting political rivals? By Yariv Mohar A video of IDF soldiers beating a young Palestinian man in handcuffs, filmed earlier this week, puts…

By +972 Magazine December 20, 2017

Palestinian farmers from the West Bank village of Qaryut assess the damage done to their olive trees the day before by Israeli settlers, October 20, 2013. Officials from the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture on the scene counted 60 trees damaged belonging to 12 different farmers. (photo: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

Settler violence on the rise as olive harvest begins in West Bank

Since the beginning of the olive harvest two weeks ago, Israeli human rights organizations have documented 10 cases of settler violence and theft against Palestinians and their property. For now, it seems like the police are doing their job. The olive harvest season, which began two weeks ago across Israel-Palestine, is one of the most…

By Orly Noy October 20, 2017

Israeli settlers throw stones at Palestinians, as soldiers stand on the side, during an attack by Israeli settlers in the West Bank village of Asira al Qibliya, April 30, 2013. Settlers burned fields and threw stones at houses in the village after an Israeli settler was stabbed to death by a Palestinian man. (Photo by: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)

WATCH: Settlers attack Palestinian farmers near radical outpost

Soldiers put an end to the attack following the intervention of a human rights worker. By Eli Bitan Israeli settlers attacked a group of Palestinian farmers outside the West Bank city of Nablus Wednesday afternoon. According to Israeli NGO Rabbis from Human Rights, the settlers came from the direction of a newly-established settler outpost, Megini Ha’aretz, not far…

By +972 Magazine October 11, 2017

The Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar, West Bank. (Faiz Abu-Rmeleh/Activestills.org)

The Bedouin village where compassion ends

The Palestinian residents of Khan al-Ahmar are facing the threat of expulsion from their homes in the West Bank. No matter how hard they tried to ingratiate themselves with their settler neighbors, nothing seemed to help. Sukkot is a lovely holiday. For seven days we play pretend: building ornate sukkot tabernacles in the safety of our…

By Orly Noy October 6, 2017

A Palestinian women is stretchered away with a head injury after settlers attacked the village of Huwwara, West Bank, April 22, 2017. (Yesh Din)

Wave of settler violence hits Palestinian villages in West Bank

Settlers from the radical Yitzhar settlement attack Palestinians in Urif and Huwwara, just one day after Israeli activists were assaulted by masked settlers in the Jordan Valley. By Yali (Yael) Marom Dozens of Jewish settlers assaulted Palestinians in two separate West Bank villages on Saturday, just one day after settlers attacked and injured left-wing Israelis…

By Yali (Yael) Marom April 23, 2017

A Palestinian child looks out over his village, Susiya, October 2016. (Gili Getz). The village is under threat of demolition to make way for a neighboring Jewish settlement, also called Susiya.

Living on borrowed time: Palestinian village fights for its existence

Threatened with their village’s destruction, Palestinians in Susiya live in a political and psychological limbo. While working, studying and trying to lead a normal life, the residents are also fighting to stop their home from disappearing. By Max Schindler When asked what her family will do if the army demolishes her village, Soraya, 16, hesitates: “We’ll…

By +972 Magazine December 14, 2016

Settler who attacked leftist rabbi: ‘If I kill one it’ll be over’

The young settler charged with attacking Rabbi Arik Ascherman blames human rights advocates for causing tension in the West Bank: ‘If I kill one of them it’ll be over. But that isn’t legal.’ The Jewish extremist accused of attacking Rabbis for Human Rights president Arik Ascherman last month was charged in court two weeks ago with causing grievous…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland November 27, 2015

WATCH: Jewish extremist tries to stab ‘rabbi for human rights’

Volunteers and activists were accompanying Palestinian olive harvesters in the West Bank to help protect them from settler attacks. A right-wing Jewish extremist threw stones at and attempted to stab president of Rabbis for Human Rights, Arik Asherman, following an olive harvest coordinated with the Israeli army on Friday. Nobody was significantly injured in the…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man October 23, 2015