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Destroyed homes in the Israeli city of Rishon LeZion, central Israel, after a ballistic missile fired from Iran hit the area, June 14, 2025. (Oren Ziv)

Israel’s greatest threat isn’t Iran or Hamas, but its own hubris

A people whose entire existence depends solely on military might is destined to end up in the darkest corners of destruction, and ultimately, in defeat.

By Orly Noy June 15, 2025

Israeli activists protest against the arrest of members of the Arab High Follow-Up Committee earlier in the day, Tel Aviv District Police Station, November 9, 2023. (Oren Ziv)

Israeli police repressing anti-war protests with ‘iron fist,’ say activists

Since October 7, Israel's police have systematically banned, restricted, and attacked protests against the army's assault on Gaza, instilling a sense of fear among Jewish and Palestinian citizens alike.

By Oren Ziv January 24, 2024

Protesters argue with worshippers affiliated with the Rosh Yehudi organization over gender-segregated prayer on Yom Kippur in Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv, September 25, 2023. (Oren Ziv)

A clash over gender segregation reveals the blindness of Israel’s protest leaders

On the religionization of public space, as with the occupation, the leaders of the anti-government protests are out of step with many taking to the streets.

By Oren Ziv September 29, 2023

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Israeli protesters during an anti-government demonstration, Tel Aviv, July 20, 2023. (Oren Ziv)

‘We’re shattered and fed up’: The youth on the frontlines of Israel’s protests

Before this year, many of these teens and twentysomethings had never been to a protest. Now they’re taking to the streets not just to fight the Israeli government, but to change the old order.

By Oren Ziv August 24, 2023

Demonstration by the anti-occupation bloc of Israel's anti-government protests, marking 56 years since the start of the military occupation, on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv, June 3, 2023. (Oren Ziv)

Israel’s protest leaders give the anti-occupation bloc the cold shoulder

A protest marking the occupation's 56th year was rejected by mainstream organizers, showing how messages about Palestinians are still being silenced.

By Oren Ziv June 6, 2023

An elderly Jewish man seen in Kfar Shalem, 1969. (Boris Carmi /Meitar Collection / National Library of Israel / The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection)

From Salama to Kfar Shalem: How Mizrahim fit into the ongoing Nakba

The expulsion of Salama’s Palestinians, the settling of Mizrahi Jews in their place, and the eviction of those residents decades later reveals the mechanism by which Israel continues to erase Palestinian existence.

By Doron Yacov and Adi Golan Bikhnafo May 15, 2023

Israeli demonstrators protest the Israeli government's planned judicial overhaul in Tel Aviv, April 25, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

The problem with ‘reclaiming’ the Israeli flag

By transforming the flag into a symbol of 'resistance,' anti-government protesters exclude Palestinians from their purported struggle for democracy.

By Oren Ziv April 27, 2023

Azrieli Towers, Tel Aviv. April 27 2008. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

How cities ‘twin’ with Israeli apartheid

Barcelona's decision to cut its twinning agreement with Tel Aviv spotlights why such ties with Israeli localities, especially settlements, are never 'apolitical.'

By Zena Agha April 3, 2023

MK Itamar Ben Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit party, and activists protest in support of the deportation of asylum seekers in southern Tel Aviv, October 12, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

In the war on African asylum seekers, Ben Gvir finds a hero’s welcome

Left-wing activists confronted the Kahanist lawmaker's visit to south Tel Aviv, but his supremacism appears to be mobilizing a growing base in the city.

By Ben Reiff October 17, 2022

Danielle Cantor, left, and Alma Beck, right, founders of Culture of Solidarity. (Alice Austin)

Tel Aviv’s radical left finds a new home

Culture of Solidarity, which began as a mutual aid initiative during lockdown, has grown into a hub for a new generation of activists across many struggles.

By Alice Austin August 26, 2022

Israeli forces search for the attacker around the scene of a shooting at a bar on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv, April 7, 2022. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

Israel’s false promise of security

Those devising punishments for Palestinians after attacks in Israeli cities offer nothing but a violent ritual in which despair and rage are the order of the day.

By Edo Konrad April 10, 2022

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

Israeli police remove a resident of Givat Amal from her home, Tel Aviv, November 15, 2021. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Farewell to Givat Amal: Police evict last residents of Mizrahi neighborhood

Seven decades ago, Israel settled over 100 Mizrahi families in Givat Amal, formerly a Palestinian village. Now, the Tel Aviv neighborhood is empty — with no guarantee of proper compensation for its former residents.

By Oren Ziv November 15, 2021