Racism in Israel

Miami Beach Police along Ocean Drive, in South Beach, Miami, Jan. 16, 2016. (Adam Fagen/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

When a Jew shot by another Jew cries ‘Death to Arabs!’

Mizrahim can continue to deny their identity, but they cannot shed their skin. The Miami shooter’s bullets remind them: after all, you’re Arab too.

By Orly Noy February 19, 2025

The scene where a missile fired by Hezbollah in Lebanon landed and caused damage in the Palestinian town of Majd Al-Krum, northern Israel, October 16, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Palestinians in Israel’s north ‘abandoned’ by authorities as rocket deaths soar

Palestinian citizens are disproportionately bearing the brunt of Hezbollah’s missiles due to their lack of shelters and proximity to Iron Dome batteries.

By Suha Arraf November 22, 2024

A Black Panthers protest in Jerusalem, 1971. (Yosef Hochman, courtesy of the Yad Yaari Research and Documentation Center)

Who is reaping the fruits of the Israeli Black Panthers’ struggle?

Half a century after setting off a political earthquake from the impoverished streets of Jerusalem, the radical Mizrahi movement has been largely forgotten. A new book seeks to untangle their contested legacy.

By Ben Reiff July 26, 2024

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Palestinians at the site of a destroyed home from an Israeli air strike in Rafah, May 1, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

For Palestinian parents, every day of this war provokes existential anxiety

In the annihilation of Gaza, we see a vision of our future as Palestinians inside Israel. So do we cling to our land, or ensure our children’s safety and leave?

By Abed Abou Shhadeh July 15, 2024

Edo Konrad. (Oren Ziv)

My last letter: Speak the words we were taught to fear

+972’s outgoing editor-in-chief reflects on the changes to the site and on the ground during his tenure, and calls for courage to confront reality head-on.

By Edo Konrad September 15, 2023

Maya Odeh. (Anan Odeh)

The yoga teacher guiding Palestinians to reclaim their bodies

Maya Odeh craved a yoga space that would understand her experience as a Palestinian woman living under Israeli apartheid. So she created it.

By Vera Sajrawi July 18, 2023

Palestinians demonstrate in Haifa during a general strike to protest Israeli state violence against Palestinians, May 18, 2021. (Maria Zreik/Activstills.org)

Who is paying the price for the violence of May 2021?

Sentences handed down after the May 2021 unrest reveal stark disparities depending on whether the accused was Jewish or Palestinian.

By Baker Zoubi December 20, 2022

Dr. Ahmad Mahajna in Petah Tikva, December 14, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

A right-wing witch hunt got a Palestinian doctor suspended. Now the truth emerges

Ahmad Mahajna is still fighting for his job at a Jerusalem hospital following a smear campaign that falsely accused him of supporting terrorism.

By Oren Ziv December 14, 2022

Palestinian workers wait at the Erez crossing in Beit Hanun, in the northern Gaza Strip, as they wait to enter Israel for work, March 13, 2022. (Attia Muhammed/Flash90)

After deadly attacks, Israel targets Palestinian workers for punishment

Palestinian laborers from the occupied territories fear for their livelihood as Israeli authorities and vigilante groups try to block their employment.

By Yuval Abraham March 31, 2022

Military correspondent Kobi Finkler during a live broadcast on Channel 20 in which he lamented the lack of 'mass casualties' in the Palestinian city of Shefa-'Amr, after a rocket launched from Lebanon landed there. (Screenshot)

Israeli journalist: It’s a shame rocket didn’t kill ‘masses’ of Arabs

Military commentator Kobi Finkler was fired for lamenting that a rocket launched from Lebanon into Israel didn't cause mass Palestinian casualties.

By Shuki Taussig and The Seventh Eye May 20, 2021

Israeli police officers guard as extreme right-wing Jews outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, April 22, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

PODCAST: A night of Jewish supremacist violence in Jerusalem

Editor-in-Chief Edo Konrad interviews Orly Noy about the racism and brutality she witnessed during a far-right march in Jerusalem last week.

By Edo Konrad April 30, 2021

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, outside the PM's official residence in Jerusalem, Dec. 12, 2020. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

There is no defeating the right without Israel’s oppressed groups

If the Balfour protests are only interested in removing Netanyahu, it will not matter to their leaders how racist the alternative will be.

By Tom Mehager January 5, 2021

Beitar Jerusalem F.C. fans seen before the start of the match between their team and Hapoel Haifa F.C. at the final of the State Cup in the Teddy stadium, Jerusalem, May 9, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

With its racist history, can a Jerusalem football team accept an Arab owner?

As Emirati sheikh buys shares in Beitar Jerusalem, the notorious club is confronting its racist ultra-fans in hopes of reviving its competitive edge.

By Robert Swift January 4, 2021