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An armed security guard shoots a Palestinian teenager after she attempted to stab passersby, Jerusalem, November 24, 2015. (screenshot: CCTV)

For most Israelis, Palestinian lives don’t matter

A 24-year-old Palestinian and her teenage brother were shot and killed by Israeli troops after allegedly trying to stab Border Police officers. The police’s version of the events doesn’t add up, but nobody in Israel, including the media, feels the need to ask questions. The facts are still unclear, in fact very unclear: the exact…

By Mairav Zonszein April 30, 2016

Blood at the scene of a stabbing attack in Jaffa, March 8, 2016. (Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

Tourist killed, over a dozen Israelis wounded in spate of attacks

In three attacks within a matter of hours, individual Palestinians carry out stabbing and shooting attacks in Tel Aviv, East Jerusalem and Petah Tikva. All three attackers are killed on the scene. A Palestinian man stabbed 13 people, wounding 12 people and killing one, before being shot to death by Israeli police along the Jaffa…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man March 8, 2016

Palestinians run from tear gas and gunfire during a protest near the Gaza border, east of Al Bureij refugee camp, October 16, 2015. The Israeli army killed at least two people during the protest. (Ezz Zanoun/Activestills.org)

Israelis and Palestinians are living in different worlds

There is something about the way that Israelis and Palestinians are discussing the violent events of recent weeks that suggests a new, particularly worrying dissonance between the two societies. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always included a full-fledged war of narratives. From biblical and historical land claims, to the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem, to…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man October 19, 2015

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Israeli youth mourn Shira Banki, who was murdered by an ultra-Orthodox man at the Jerusalem Pride Parade, August 2, 2015. The attacker, Yishai Schlissel, stabled six people. (Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

Pride murder may force Israel’s ultra-Orthodox to face homophobia

Homophobia in the ultra-Orthodox community is primarily expressed through silence — it simply isn’t discussed. After a haredi man stabbed six people at the Jerusalem Pride Parade, that silence may have been tragically broken. By Eli Bitan In the summer of 2006 I first learned about gays, lesbians and the LGBT community, concepts that until…

By +972 Magazine August 8, 2015

Seven Nights 1: The Stabbing

The plan was to write a leisurely travel journal: a record of Canaan’s summer nights, but the journey began with a dark event: a stabbing at Jerusalem pride, and took on a different nature. Welcome to a seven-part, nocturnal diary of shock and recovery, a true story from an emotional land. For other nights click…

By Yuval Ben-Ami August 4, 2015

ZAKA volunteers collect blood from the spot where an Israeli soldier was stabbed Monday outside a Tel Aviv train station, November 10, 2014. (Photo by Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

In wake of stabbing attacks, Bibi says protesters ‘can go to Palestine’

In second stabbing attack in one day, a young woman is killed, others injured in a West Bank settlement bloc. Attacks come amid police shooting of Palestinian citizen of Israel, deadly vehicular attacks and protests in Jerusalem. Individual Palestinians carried out two separate stabbing attacks against Israelis on Monday. In the first attack, an 18-year-old…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man November 10, 2014

Violence is a cruel reminder of a reality that is neither calm nor stable

When murder and violence flash in the West Bank, Israelis should remember that on the other days they don’t hear about terror, lots of violence is taking place. Those who choose to live in an illusion of calm and stability should consider themselves both privileged and lucky. And neither of those things can last forever. …

By Mairav Zonszein April 30, 2013