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The aftermath of a Molotov cocktail attack on a kindergarten for immigrant children in the Shapira neighborhood of south Tel Aviv, Israel, April 27, 2012. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

‘Breaking the ghettos’: The struggle to desegregate Tel Aviv’s schools

The city that brands itself a 'liberal haven' is forcing asylum seekers' children into separate, impoverished schools. And the parents are fighting back.

By Ben Reiff January 16, 2022

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When an American in the IDF meets a Palestinian American in Hebron

An American serving in the Israeli army in Hebron says that in her job granting and denying Palestinians permission to work and travel, it’s a ‘conversation starter’ to meet Palestinians who back home would have full rights like her. The video below was published Sunday by COGAT, the unit of the Israeli Defense Ministry charged…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man August 25, 2019

The wall closing on Walajah houses (Oren Ziv / Activestills)

WATCH: The personal and political of segregation in Israel

Almost everywhere in Israel, Jews and Palestinians live separately. Where did the idea of segregation come from? And is it really what people want?

By Social TV March 27, 2019

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Arab and Jewish citizens protest racial profiling at the entrance to Barzilai Medical Center, January 20, 2019. (Courtesy of Standing Together)

Activists pulled off bus for protesting racial profiling at Israeli hospital

Security guards remove the activists for protesting a new policy that singles out Palestinians on a public bus line in southern Israel. Security guards at an Israeli hospital detained 10 Arab and Jewish activists Sunday for an act of civil disobedience protesting a policy to single out, remove, and inspect Palestinians on a public bus…

By Edo Konrad January 20, 2019

Yael Berda. (Oren Ziv)

‘Israel’s permit regime isn’t about security, it’s about segregation’

The permit system for Palestinians allows Israel to recruit informants, suppress political activity, and create an opaque system of segregation and control. Just don’t say it’s about security, says Yael Berda. The image should be familiar to every person with even the slightest bit of knowledge about Palestine. Hundreds of middle-aged men huddled together at…

By Edo Konrad January 9, 2019

Israeli soldiers watch Palestinian women walk towards Qalandiya checkpoint, West Bank, August 20, 2010. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Israel’s Nation-State Law: ‘Apartheid is a process’

With the passage of the ‘Jewish Nation-State Law,’ Israel has constitutionally enshrined discrimination against its Palestinian population. ‘We don’t have to keep looking for policies that resemble Jim Crow,’ says Attorney Fady Khoury. The Israeli parliament passed the “Jewish Nation-State Law” in the early hours of Thursday morning, defining Israel as the exclusive nation-state of…

By Edo Konrad July 19, 2018

A Jewish Israeli man holding an Israeli flag confronts a Palestinian woman holding a kaffiyeh on the sidelines of the ultra-nationalist "Jerusalem Day" march, May 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A state that belongs to only some of its citizens

According to the proposed ‘Jewish Nation-State Law,’ Israel does not belong to Israeli citizens, more than 20 percent of whom are not Jewish. Instead, it is the state of the Jewish people, roughly half of whom are not even Israeli. There is a form on the Israeli Interior Ministry’s website, where one can order duplicate…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man July 13, 2018

Jewish immigrants from Yemen at a camp near Rosh Ha’ayin. (Photo: GPO)

The color of racism: What many get wrong about race relations in Israel

Protests against an Arab family moving into an all-Jewish neighborhood in northern Israel have sparked worldwide condemnation and accusations of ‘white supremacy.’ But understanding the ways Jewish supremacy and white supremacy work in Israel is the first step toward dismantling them. By Lihi Yona Over the past few weeks, protests have rocked the northern Israeli city of…

By +972 Magazine June 24, 2018

Israeli border policemen stop and check Palestinians going out of the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Issawiya, on October 15, 2015. Israel set up checkpoints in the Palestinian neighbourhoods of east Jerusalem and mobilised hundreds of soldiers as a collective punishment after recent attacks by Palestinians. (Activestills.org)

Jerusalem by the numbers: Poverty, demolitions, and exile

As nationalist Israelis celebrate the ‘unification’ of the city, when Israeli troops occupied East Jerusalem in 1967, a look at the data shows a far bleaker picture of life for Jerusalem’s Palestinian residents. The following is a collection of facts, figures, and statistics about Jerusalem compiled and published on the occasion of “Jerusalem Day.” Nationalist Israelis…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man May 13, 2018

Joint List head Ayman Odeh seen during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Knesset, November 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Why Israel’s Arab leadership is disengaging from the Zionist Left

From the point of view of Israel’s Palestinians, the Zionist Left has little to offer them anymore. Today, the Right’s model of ‘economic peace’ is seen as the lesser of two evils. By Doron Matza The protests against government corruption and the erosion of the rule of law, which moved recently from Petah Tikvah to the…

By +972 Magazine December 18, 2017

Palestinian woman walk on the segregated Shuhada Street, in the divided West Bank town of Hebron, January 15, 2013. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

WATCH: How Hebron went from integration to segregation

A tour of Hebron covers the history of the city, from its former incarnation as a space shared by Jews and Arabs to the massacres in 1929 and 1994, and from the Oslo Accords to segregation. Read more: How the 1929 Hebron massacre invigorated the Zionist movement Special Coverage: The Goldstein massacre – 20 years of…

By Social TV April 5, 2017

Open Shuhada Street demonstration in Hebron, February 24, 2017. (Activestills.org)

Hundreds march in Hebron: ‘Open segregated Shuhada Street’

Israeli soldiers fire volleys of tear gas to break up the protest, prevent the march from reaching the street Israel has forbidden Palestinians but not Jews from walking or driving down. Around 400 people marched through the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday to mark 23 years since the Ibrahimi Mosque (Cave of the…

By Haggai Matar February 24, 2017

Prime Minister Netanyahu making a recorded public address. (YouTube) screenshot)

Netanyahu is right: Settlements aren’t the biggest obstacle to peace

The prime minister published a video accusing the Palestinians — and the world — of ethnic cleansing for opposing Israeli settlements. Not so fast. Almost as if for sport, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu released an English video on Friday. It is just two minutes long but packed with chatter-rich material: the Palestinians are guilty of ethnic…

By Dahlia Scheindlin September 10, 2016