Trayvon Martin

Israeli police arrest an Arab youth during clashes in Kfar Kanna, November 8, 2014. Clashes broke after police shot and killed 22-year-old Kheir Hamdan while he was attempting to flee after striking a police van with a knife. (Photo by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

The difference between Israel’s violent, racist cops and America’s

It’s in how Israel and America, especially their respective leaders, react to these cops’ most outrageous crimes. Israeli police are not the only ones with a habit of getting trigger happy when they come up against members of a feared and hated ethnic minority. While many Israeli cops (and soldiers) have a tendency toward overkill…

By Larry Derfner November 10, 2014

A Bedouin woman looks over her the ruins of her home after Israeli forces demolished the Negev village of Al Araqib, September 12, 2010. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

What Palestinian citizens of Israel can learn from the civil rights movement

Despite recent improvement in the economic situation of Palestinian citizens of Israel, many remain suspicious of the Israeli government and its motives. Palestinians must look back at the legacy of the black American struggle for equality, drawing on lessons that they can use to further their own cause. By Robert Cherry Thanks to Israeli government…

By +972 Magazine November 6, 2013

Israeli riot policemen arrest a protester as a few hundred Bedouin accompanied by activists from other parts of the country demonstrate against the Prawer Plan on July 15, 2013, Beer Sheva, Israel. Israeli police arrested 14 protesters during the demo. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Anti-Prawer protests sweep the country: A week in photos – July 11-17

This week: Protests sweep the region to protest the Prawer Plan that would displace Bedouin citizens of Israel, social justice activists mark two years since the J14 protests, Americans react to the verdict in the Trayvon Martin case, and Palestinians enter Jerusalem in the first week of Ramadan. …

By Activestills July 18, 2013

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If Bernie Goldberg had a son, he’d look nothing like Trayvon Martin

Thank God Fox News is around to remind us how absurd some conservatives can be. On Monday night’s O’Reilly Factor, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly’s guests included a number of voices speaking about the Trayvon Martin case, in which last month a black teenager walking (presumably home) while carrying snacks one night in Florida was…

By Roee Ruttenberg March 26, 2012