settler colonialism

Thousands attend a protest against the epidemic of crime in the Palestinian community inside Israel, in Tel Aviv. January 31, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Amid genocide, Palestinian participation in Israel’s elections must be reimagined

Even if the vote cannot end settler-colonial rule, Palestinians in Israel should use their citizenship to protect their people and the conditions for resistance.

By Areej Sabbagh-Khoury August 12, 2026

Eyal Weizman. (David Ausserhofer/Robert Bosch Academy)

PODCAST: Why ‘ungrounding’ is the defining feature of Israel’s genocide

Discussing his new book, Eyal Weizman explains how the systematic erasure of Gaza's built environment is aimed at extinguishing Palestinian life in the Strip.

By +972 Magazine June 26, 2026

An Israeli soldier ignores a Palestinian woman as he protects a settler grazing cows on agricultural lands belonging to the Palestinian village of Susiya, in Masafer Yatta, January 31, 2026. (Avishay Mohar/Activestills)

Jews have historical ties to Palestine. Israel is still a settler-colonial project

The debate over origins is irrelevant to defining the nature of the Zionist regime, which is built on the dispossession and erasure of the Palestinians.

By Sleman Altehe June 10, 2026

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A man holds a sign that reads "Life" in both Hebrew and Arabic, during a protest against the war in Gaza, in Tel Aviv, April 24, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

The false symmetry of Jewish-Arab partnership

Under conditions of apartheid, binationalism requires Israeli Jews to relinquish leadership and join the Palestinian-led struggle for decolonization.

By Areej Sabbagh-Khoury February 11, 2026

An activist waves a Palestinian flag at the front a feminist march in Paris, March 7, 2025. (Anne Paq/Activestills)

The Gaza genocide radicalized the world — and there’s no going back

People can't unsee a live-streamed annihilation defended under the banner of liberal democracy. They know the Israeli apartheid regime can no longer exist.

By Tareq Baconi December 24, 2025

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

Thousands of Israeli protesters rally against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government in Tel Aviv, February 11, 2023. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

The settler-colonial origins of Israel’s constitutional crisis

The government’s assault on the judiciary is driven by the same urge as the state’s founders: to protect their power to privilege Jews over Palestinians.

By Yousef Munayyer February 24, 2023

Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories. (Courtesy)

UN expert: ‘Apartheid is in front of your eyes everywhere you go’

Francesca Albanese discusses the recent attacks against her, defining Israel's occupation as settler colonialism, and using international law to dismantle it.

By Meron Rapoport February 6, 2023

Jewish Jerusalemites celebrating the UN decision on the partition of Palestine, riding on top of an armored police car, Jerusalem, 1947, November 30, 1947. (Hans Pinn/GPO)

The racial logic behind Palestine’s partition

Partition was rarely endorsed as a solution to settler colonialism. But Europe's racialization of Jews distinguished Zionism from other settler enterprises.

By Yair Wallach January 10, 2023

Matzpen co-founder Moshé Machover, London, July 11, 2008. (Hossam el-Hamalawy/CC BY 2.0)

The last first Israeli anti-Zionist

Sixty years after co-founding the radical leftist group Matzpen, Moshé Machover reflects on the organization’s enduring legacy, the internal splits that led to its demise, and its lessons for today's anti-Zionist left.

By Ben Reiff November 24, 2022

Protesters march in support of indigenous rights at the Invasion Day rally in Melbourne, Australia, January 26, 2020. (Flickr/Matt Hrkac/CC BY 2.0)

You can’t oppose settler colonialism in Australia while endorsing it in Palestine

Australia’s Jewish establishment claims to champion indigenous rights, yet its fealty to Zionism predicates Jewish safety on denying Palestinian liberation.

By Em Hilton August 31, 2022

The remains of the village of Qira are seen in front of Yokneam, southeast of Haifa. (Ahmad Al-Bazz)

In photos: Returning to Palestine’s depopulated villages

For the past six months, Ahmad Al-Bazz has traveled around the country, documenting what remains of the hundreds of villages, towns, and cities destroyed during the Nakba.

By Ahmad Al-Bazz May 15, 2022

A model of the new Palestinian city of Rawabi is displayed at the center of the Rawabi project site, Feb. 23, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

The Palestinian city that mimics its colonizers

The West Bank city of Rawabi illustrates how Palestinian capitalists are trying — and failing — to form a middle class by mirroring Israel's neoliberal policies.

By Matan Kaminer August 29, 2021