Spanish Inquisition

Sultan Bayezid II.
When the Sultan took in Jewish refugees
Bayezid II, the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, saved my family’s life during the Spanish Inquisition. The Israeli government could learn a thing or two from him. By Tom Pessah I am a Jew of Sephardic origin, which means the defining moment of my family’s history was their expulsion from Spain in 1492. I still have…
By +972 Magazine January 25, 2018
COMIC: Google Glass for the Gaza gaze
By Eli Valley Eli Valley is a writer and artist whose work has been published in New York Magazine, The Daily Beast, Gawker, Saveur, Haaretz and elsewhere. He is currently finishing his first novel. Eli’s website is www.EVComics.com and he tweets at @elivalley. More from Eli Valley: What if Mahmoud was named Jonah? A Passover lesson: ‘And then we were free’…
By +972 Magazine July 25, 2014
Illustrative photo of Palestinian prisoners in an Israeli military prison (By ChameleonsEye / Shutterstock.com)
Israel takes a page from the Guantanamo playbook
Netanyahu is pushing a new bill to allow the force-feeding of Palestinian hunger strikers. The prime minister is in good company. American practices at the prison at Guantanamo Bay are giving Benjamin Netanyahu ideas. Earlier this week, a draft bill authorizing the force-feeding of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners passed the first of three readings in the…
By Noa Yachot June 11, 2014
Latest
Most Read
  1. Peace Now is taking direct action against settler outposts. Can it succeed?
  2. Israel storms Palestinian NGO offices after months-long failure to discredit them
  3. 'We killed a little boy, but it was within the rules'
  4. Why did the army shut down a Palestinian village? So settlers could pray in it
  5. Peace Now is taking direct action against settler outposts. Can it succeed?
  1. 'We killed a little boy, but it was within the rules'
  2. How a resurrected militia is defying Israeli and Palestinian rulers
  3. From my balcony in Gaza, the wailings of war return
  4. Peace Now is taking direct action against settler outposts. Can it succeed?
  5. She was a promising young artist in Gaza. Israel killed her while she painted
  1. 'We killed a little boy, but it was within the rules'
  2. Confession without consequence
  3. Why are French Jews silent on the occupation?
  4. From my balcony in Gaza, the wailings of war return
  5. How a resurrected militia is defying Israeli and Palestinian rulers