Samah Salaime

A Jewish Israeli man shouts at Palestinians while waving the Israeli flag in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem on Jerusalem Day, June 2, 2008. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Voting Netanyahu out is not going to ‘save’ Israel-Palestine

Israeli citizens are about to vote in national elections for the second time in six months. But has anything changed since April? Why is no one talking about the occupation? And are we really about to see the end of the Netanyahu era? +972 writers talk about why these elections matter. Israeli voters will head to the…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland September 15, 2019

Maria Miguel De Pina, an Arabic teacher from Nazareth, gives a basic Arabic lesson to thousands of Israelis in Habima Square, Tel Aviv, July 30, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

‘World’s largest Arabic lesson’: A rebuke to the Jewish Nation-State law

Thousands of Israelis attend the event, billed as the world’s largest Arabic lesson, in protest of a new nationalist law that excludes Palestinian citizens of Israel from the national identity and demotes Arabic from its status as an official language. Thousands of Jewish and Palestinian Israelis took part in what was billed as the “biggest Arabic…

By Edo Konrad July 31, 2018

Local Call editor Orly Noy accepts the Dror Prize from former Supreme Court Justice Dalia Dorner, Tel Aviv, December 1, 2017. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

‘Local Call’ wins award for social change

Local Call wins NIS 25,000 for its persistent coverage of the joint feminist struggle between Arab and Jewish women against gender violence. By +972 Magazine Hebrew-language site Local Call won the Dror Prize for social change, along with a NIS 25,000 cash prize, on Friday, for spotlighting the joint struggle between Jewish and Arab women…

By +972 Magazine December 1, 2017

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MK Aida Tuma-Sliman stands alongside the family of Dua'a Abu Sharkh, who was murdered last week in front of her children, Friday, September 30, 2016. (Haggai Matar)

Following murder, hundreds of Arab women march against gender violence

Hundreds protest the murder of a woman before her children’s eyes. While some of the male demonstrators preferred to focus on police inaction and racism, the women demanded to speak about what is actually happening inside Arab society. By Haggai Matar and Hagar Shezaf Around 500 women and men marched Friday afternoon in the city…

By Haggai Matar October 1, 2016

Samah Salaime honored with award from a-Shams Radio, Photo: Nabil Hakim, 2015.

+972 writer Samah Salaime given award for work on gender equality

Samah Salaime, of +972 and its Hebrew sister site Local Call, is honored for her activism advancing women’s rights in Israel by Radio a-Shams. +972 Magazine and Local Call blogger Samah Salaime received an award last week from Radio A-Shams in Nazareth for her work promoting the status of Arab women and gender equality in…

By +972 Magazine August 6, 2015

Heads of the four parties comprising the Joint List (from left to right) Ayman Odeh of Hadash, Masud Ganaim of Ra’am, Jamal Zahalka of Balad and Ahmad Tibi of Ta’al, Tel Aviv, February 11, 2015. (Photo by Activestills.org)

In natural gas debacle, the Joint List just can’t win

The slate of Palestinian parties in the Knesset, aligned with neither the coalition nor the opposition, is quickly — and at times clumsily — discovering its own power. Lessons from Israel’s natural gas debacle. By Samah Salaime There’s an old joke about a tyrannical lion who abuses a monkey in the jungle. Every time the…

By +972 Magazine July 1, 2015