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What we’re doing to protect your privacy: +972 and HTTPS

As part of our commitment to promoting freedom of information and fighting censorship, we recently added an important layer of encryption to our website. Here’s why we did it, and what it means for you. Over the past year we at +972 Magazine have dedicated significant resources into expanding our journalistic focus on censorship, freedom…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man January 3, 2017

Israelis attend a shooting practice in a gun shop in Jerusalem on October 15, 2015. Arms shop's owners report a rise in demand for weapons and other self defence gear as violence continues around Jerusalem. (Activestills.org)

Israel looks to alter gun policy, and women are most at risk

In response to the recent wave of violence Israel’s public security minister wants to put more guns in more (men’s) hands and in more homes. The only guaranteed result, however, is that more women will be killed inside their own homes. By Rela Mazali Israel’s gun policy is changing as you read this. The country’s…

By +972 Magazine January 13, 2016

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Photo: Haim Zach/GPO)

[Vid] Street Talk: Things are bad, but still voting Bibi

Why do people continue to vote for parties that work against their interests and persistently disappoint? What are the voting patterns in the Israeli public? A street survey of voters and a conversation with sociologist Jessica Nevo. Related: What do you call a politician who promises more war? Don’t call her the ‘Russian candidate’: Meet…

By Social TV February 4, 2015

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Israeli canons at an army deployment area near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, on July 16, 2014. Operation 'Protective Edge' enters it's ninth day of Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip as yesterday's ceasefire agreement proposed by Egypt has failed to restore calm (photo: Activestills)

On dual standards and the hypocrisy of peace

Israel has no problem asserting an inviolable right to self-defense, while repeatedly denying the same right to Palestinians. The same state that decries Palestinian violence has no qualms meeting non-violent protests with fully armed aggression. By Nadia Naser-Najjab The ongoing conflict in Gaza has led international actors to reassert Israel’s right to self-defense. Any objection that…

By +972 Magazine July 17, 2014

Israeli private security guards try to stop Palestinians from working their land in the West Bank village of Sinjil, near the Israeli outpost of Givat Haro'e , August 18, 2013. Three years after settlers invaded their land, following the HCJ injunction order issued in the petition filed by the landowners through Yesh Din, landowners from the village of Sinjil arrive to their land for the first time. (Photo: Activestills.org)

What happens when an IDF colonel overrules Israel’s High Court

We’re pleased to introduce Col. Pinto, Commander of the IDF’s Binyamin Brigade, who holds a practical veto over decisions of the High Court of Justice. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz Last month we reported that after a three-year sisyphean legal struggle, the IDF finally implemented a High Court of Justice order that Ali Shabana…

By +972 Magazine September 5, 2013

Is Israel’s search through visitors’ email accounts legal?

Recent searches into the email accounts of passengers arriving in Israel raises the question of how far the state can go in its airport security checks. It is one thing to search files located on a person’s computer , but quite another to go through a person’s cyberspace history. By Jonathan Klinger News that the Israel…

By +972 Magazine June 6, 2012

weapons (Photo: My American Odyssey/flickr 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

The utopian vision of ‘security’ is killing Israel

Somewhere along the way, security for Israeli Jews became utopia: it will never be achieved, but it exacts an infinite price of destruction for its own sake, on the road to nowhere. Isaiah Berlin’s seminal critique of utopia holds that no matter how noble the idea at hand, the assumption that one truth can be…

By Dahlia Scheindlin May 2, 2012

Protesters at Tel Aviv rally (photo: Oren Ziv / activestills.org)

#J14 takes up cause of Gilad Shalit in a bid to keep momentum

By: Liel Maghen and Aziz Abu Sarah It is a custom in Israel that people will forsake their social rights or economic demands in face of any security concerns and terror threats. The right wing in Israel had successfully presented security concerns as a justification to maintain the status quo on social issues. Thus, in…

By Aziz Abu Sarah August 29, 2011

Mass demonstration for housing and economic issues, Tel Aviv, 23 July 2011 (Photo: Eyal Warshavsky)

WATCH: The housing protest – a new national identity?

A sound and slideshow by Eyal Warshavsky, with national anthem Hatikva as the crescendo, illustrates the powerful sense of a shared national cause emerging from the demonstration last Saturday night. What began as an outcry over high housing prices is taking on ever-larger dimensions, and Israelis of all stripes have rallied to the cause of…

By Dahlia Scheindlin July 26, 2011

A special form for Arab passengers to warn airport of their arrival

Israel responded to the “flytilla” with a wildly disproportionate deployment of police and extraordinary security checks. But Palestinian citizens of Israel are discriminated at the Ben Gurion Airport on an hourly basis – and are now able to racially profile themselves, using a specially provided form to warn the airport authorities of their arrival. In…

By Dimi Reider July 9, 2011

Netanyahu’s lie re: “indefensible” 1967 borders

When Netanyahu says the 1967 borders are “indefensible”, this does not mean Israel must seek to avoid conceding too much West Bank land. It means Israel cannot make any concessions. Last week, in response to Obama’s speech, Netanyahu argued that for Israel, the borders that existed before the 1967 occupation are “indefensible”. He repeated the…

By Roi Maor May 21, 2011

Airport Security or an Attack on Freedom of Expression (Photo: Defense-Update.com)

Regularly confronting discrimination at Ben Gurion Airport

By Aziz Abu Sarah The recent Supreme Court rebuke of the Airport Authorities in Israel came as a shining light of hope. The treatment of Arabs at Ben Gurion Airport has caused many controversies over the last few years. For me, this is not something I simply read about in the newspaper — being a…

By +972 Magazine March 24, 2011