The kidnappings

Tariq Abu Khdeir speaks about his beating at a CAIR panel in the U.S. (Screenshot, CAIR)

Tariq Abu Khdeir: More officers should face justice for my beating

Israel files assault charges against a police officer filmed beating the 15-year-old American teenager; Tariq and his family demand two other Israeli police officers face justice for their involvement in the beating earlier this summer. The Israeli police officer who was filmed beating unconscious a 15-year-old Palestinian-American boy in Jerusalem in July has been charged with assaulting a…

By Matt Surrusco September 11, 2014

And Israel border policeman outside the Abu Khdeir home in Shuafat, East Jerusalem Sept. 7, 2014 (Photo: Tamar Fleishman)

‘Police threaten to destroy memorial for slain Palestinian teen, Mohammed Abu Khdeir’

Clashes and riots break out over the death of another Palestinian teen shot by Israel police. Israel Police on Sunday threatened to destroy a memorial for murdered Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir, who was burned alive by several Israeli Jews on July 2, according to Tamar Fleishman, an Israeli activist who met with the Abu Khdeir…

By Mairav Zonszein September 8, 2014

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the swearing in ceremony for the new unity government, Ramallah, June 2, 2014. (Photo: Mustafa Bader/Activestills.org)

Palestinian unity is no substitute for a viable political system

Where do the U.S. and Israel want Hamas: as part of a transparent political system, or in underground tunnels? By Sam Bahour Palestinian “unity,” reconciling tensions between Hamas and Fatah, is being revered as the foundation that can extract Gaza from the misery wrought upon it by yet another brutal Israeli military onslaught. The devastation…

By +972 Magazine August 17, 2014

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Israeli soldiers stop Palestinians at a flying check-point at the entrance to the West Bank city of Hebron, seen on June 15, 2014. A complete closure was put on the city after three Israeli teenagers went missing near a West Bank settlement. The three, all students at a Jewish seminary, went missing late on June 12 as they were hitchhiking between Bethlehem and Hebron and are believed to have been kidnapped. (Photo by Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

How money vanishes into thin air during a West Bank raid

When Murad Albaden was woken up one morning by Israeli soldiers and police officers, he had no idea they were going to raid his home, destroy his furniture and take his money. By Yossi Gurvitz for Yesh Din One of the issues the Israeli army hardly ever discusses is looting. In the IDF’s early days,…

By +972 Magazine August 6, 2014

Right wing Israelis burn a Palestinian flag and shout racist slogans during an anti-Palestinian demonstration at the Gush Etzion junction, a settlement next to the Palestinian town of Bethlehem ,on June 16, 2014. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

After Abu Khdeir murder, an ugly collision of homophobia and racism

After Mohammed Abu Khdeir was burned to death, many Israeli Jews insisted he died at the hands of Palestinians. They seized on unfounded rumors of his alleged homosexuality rather than facing the truth of the horrible act. By Shaked Spier (Translated from Hebrew by Yossefa Mekyton and Shaked Spier) Alongside the pain, belligerence and anger,…

By Haokets July 27, 2014

Police arrest an Arab protester during an anti-war demonstration in Nazareth. (photo: Activestills.org)

Following wave of protests, Israel arrests scores of Arab activists, minors

Hundreds of Arab citizens of Israel have been detained in recent weeks, including dozens of minors. Abusive interrogations and preemptive arrests suggest that many of the tactics of occupation have crossed the Green Line. By Hagar Sheizaf (Translated by Ofer Neiman) The murder of Muhammed Abu Khdeir and the military onslaught in Gaza have brought about…

By +972 Magazine July 22, 2014

Israeli soldiers from a special army unit take part in a search operation raid a Palestinian shop in the West Bank town of Hebron. June 18, 2014 (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

In search of teens, soldiers ‘looted’ Palestinian homes

Palestinians reported numerous incidents of looting by IDF soldiers during Operation Brother’s Keeper in the West Bank. Here’s the first case documented by Yesh Din. By Yossi Gurvitz for Yesh Din During Operation Brother’s Keeper, IDF soldiers invaded thousands of houses in the West Bank, under the pretext of looking for the three kidnapped teenagers.…

By +972 Magazine July 18, 2014

Israelis take cover as a sound of alarm broke near a house damaged by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in the southern city of Ashkelon, Israel, July 16, 2014. Four children on the beach in Gaza City were killed in an Israeli airstrike, raising the overall death toll to over 200 Palestinians as operation 'Protective Edge' enters it's ninth day. One Israeli civilian was killed on July 15 from a direct hit near the Erez Crossing.

Propaganda wars: Searching for a narrative in Operation Protective Edge

No amount of Tweeting, tagging, posting or liking will save Gazans from an Israeli ground invasion. So why bother? By Corey Sherman Recent political upheavals in the Middle East tend to have a social media subplot, whether it’s how savvy youth use it to subvert harsh authority, or how states manipulate access to it so…

By +972 Magazine July 17, 2014

Palestinian residents of Shuafat stand above the body of Muhammad Abu Khdeir during his funeral. (photo: Activestills)

An open letter to the family of Mohammed Abu Khdeir

As Israel and the Palestinians descend further into open violence, concerned Israelis challenge their fellow citizens in an attempt to forge a joint Israel-Palestinian resistance to violence. (Translated from Hebrew by Idit Arad and Matan Kaminer) Our hands shed this blood, our hands set Mohammed Abu Khdeir on fire, our hands fanned the flames. We…

By Haokets July 16, 2014

Israeli soldiers blindfold and arrest a young Palestinian man in Hebron. (photo: Activestills.org)

How an army of defense became an army of vengeance

I will never forget the evening my friends and I were sent to kill Palestinian police officers in a revenge attack. We went from soldiers sent to defend our families to murderers of innocent people. By O.K. A month has passed since we were informed of the kidnapping of Eyal Yifrah, Gilad Shaar and Naftali…

By +972 Magazine July 16, 2014

A Palestinian cleaning worker argues with Israeli settlers as during a protest against the 'flag march', in which Israeli settlers and Ultra-nationalists march through Damascus Gate in East Jerusalem, on May 28, 2014, celebrating the anniversary of its capture in the 1967 Six-Day War.
Police prevented from Palestinians to gather and protest against the march, and attacked journalists that were covering the event. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

In Jerusalem, Jews and Palestinians pay the price for latest wave of violence

An inside look at the financial and psychological costs of the recent unrest in one of the country’s most segregated cities. By Corey Sherman As the rocket alert sirens rang out in Jerusalem Tuesday night, a group of friends passed around a pungent hashish cigarette on Yohanan Horkanus Street, an alleyway nestled between the commercial center…

By +972 Magazine July 12, 2014

Israeli policemen arrest a Palestinian protestor during clashes in Arara, in Israel's north, in the wake of the murder of 16-year-old Muhammad Abu Khdeir. (photo: Activestills.org)

Not just escalation: A frightening new era of Jewish-Arab relations in Israel

Attacks by Jewish hooligans on Arabs, unprecedented incitement by right-wing politicians and clashes between Israeli Police and Arab youth. We’ve been here before, but never like this. By Ron Gerlitz This article is written at the height of an extensive, violent escalation in the Jewish-Arab conflict, both within Israel and between Israel and the Palestinians…

By +972 Magazine July 12, 2014

Funeral of Hamza Zayed Jaradat and Zayed Juma Jaradat, two 12-year-old Palestinian children killed by an unexploded mortar left behind by Israeli forces in the West Bank village of Sa'ir, near Hebron, March 7, 2012. (Photo by Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Details of Palestinian deaths jeopardize a system of denial

The news says, ‘the IDF doesn’t kill children in vain.’ And everyone here nods with a serious ‘moral gaze.’ By Nir Baram While mourning the horrific murder of the three Israeli boys by despicable murderers, yet again we hear the familiar calls of, “in times like these there is no Left and Right. We are…

By +972 Magazine July 7, 2014