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Police officers at the scene where a Palestinian man was killed in a car bomb in Lod, central Israel, February 15, 2023. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

On TikTok, Palestinians in Israel are a scroll away from organized crime

Videos of luxury cars, cash, masked motorcyclists, and veiled threats have drawn over 100 million views, amplifying criminal power far beyond the street.

By Samah Watad April 7, 2026

A Palestinian man inspects the damage after a missile fired from Iran struck the Palestinian town of Zarzir, northern Israel, March 13, 2026. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Exposed from above, silenced from within: Palestinians in wartime Israel

Decades of neglect have left Palestinian citizens unprotected from missile fire, while police are carrying out arrests for expressions of dissent.

By Samah Watad and Baker Zoubi March 19, 2026

A Palestinian flag hangs on a building in Amsterdam, Holland, June 20, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Between a revolution and a whisper

For Palestinians in Israel, self-censorship has long been a survival mechanism, our silence the condition of our citizenship. But encountering solidarity abroad, I realized my body forgot what it feels like to speak freely.

By Thawra Abukhdeir October 6, 2025

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The rap duo Bob Vylan performs at the Beautiful Days music festival, in Escot Park, England, Aug. 21, 2022. (Neil Melville-Kenney/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

The UK can excuse genocide, but draws the line at festival chants

A musician’s anti-IDF slogan isn’t what is making British Jews less safe. The escalating repression of Palestine solidarity as ‘antisemitic’ is.

By Em Hilton July 1, 2025

A promotional poster for Nidal Baderneh's show "Iron Kibbeh."

A Palestinian comedian walks into an Israeli interrogation room

Nidal Badarneh was arrested for joking about Israeli hostages. Yet when Israeli comedians joke about the war, or even killing Palestinians, no one bats an eye.

By Noam Shuster-Eliassi March 12, 2025

A Palestine solidarity demonstration in the Potsdamer Platz area, Berlin, October 15, 2023. The police suppressed the demonstration shortly after authorizing it.

The spiraling absurdity of Germany’s pro-Israel fanaticism

As repression of Palestine solidarity penetrates every sector of life, the state's liberal self-image is fast becoming a story Germans can only tell themselves.

By Michael Sappir March 21, 2024

Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham holding the Best Documentary Award for their film 'No Other Land' at the Berlinale film festival, February 24, 2024 (Ali Ghandtschi/Berlinale 2024)

+972 and Local Call stand with colleagues Basel and Yuval

The attacks on Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham illustrate the repressive forces working to silence those who speak hard truths about Israeli apartheid.

By +972 Magazine February 28, 2024

Israeli activists protest against the arrest of members of the Arab High Follow-Up Committee earlier in the day, Tel Aviv District Police Station, November 9, 2023. (Oren Ziv)

Israeli police repressing anti-war protests with ‘iron fist,’ say activists

Since October 7, Israel's police have systematically banned, restricted, and attacked protests against the army's assault on Gaza, instilling a sense of fear among Jewish and Palestinian citizens alike.

By Oren Ziv January 24, 2024

An Iraqi protester waves a flag at a protest during the October Revolution, November 1, 2019. (Mondalawy/CC BY-SA 4.0)

The dwindling promise of popular uprisings in the Middle East

From Iran to Palestine, protest movements are fighting regimes that have grown stronger and smarter since the Arab Spring. Can this time be different?

By Tariq Kenney-Shawa November 16, 2022

Police arrest a Palestinian-Israeli protester during a demonstration against Operation Protective Edge, July 18, 2014, Haifa, Israel (photo: Activestills)

The hard fact is that Israeli repression works

Iron fist tactics have kept Palestinians down for the last decade, and there’s a strong chance that the harsh measures Netanyahu just outlined will succeed in putting them down again. Those who oppose Israel’s iron fist tactics against violent Palestinian resistance argue, as a rule, that it’s impractical, it won’t work, you can’t repress a…

By Larry Derfner November 12, 2014

Hebron demonstration signals a new intifada in the West Bank?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG-tIKVD8Qs[/youtube] Riding the wave of unrest in the Arab world, the PA called for a carefully controlled ‘day of rage’ throughout the West Bank against the United States for their recent veto of an internationally accepted resolution declaring (once again) that Israeli settlement activity is illegal. While in Ramallah the PA sponsored demonstration was weak…

By Joseph Dana February 26, 2011

Jonathan Pollak at a Tel Aviv Courthouse. Photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org

The State of Israel vs. Jonathan Pollak

The verdict in the case of Israeli activist Jonathan Pollak, charged with illegal assembly for his participation in a January 2008 Critical Mass ride against the siege on Gaza, will be handed down on December 27, 2010 at 10:00 at the Tel Aviv Magistrates Court. If convicted, Pollak is expected to be sentenced to three…

By Joseph Dana December 19, 2010

British parliament debates Israeli military tribunals

The British Labour party is now debating what the Israeli labor party refuses to acknowledge, the horrific treatment of Palestinians in Israeli military courts. I have covered the military court system extensively on this website in relation to the repression of the Palestinian popular unarmed struggle. Amira Hass’s article in today’s Haaretz points to positive…

By Joseph Dana December 13, 2010