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Yossi Sarid at a Sheikh Jarrah solidarity protest, January 22, 2010. (Photo by Lisa Goldman)

Yossi Sarid: Conservative innovator of the Israeli Left

One of the first Israeli politicians to champion the two-state solution, Yossi Sarid was also one of the last vestiges of the Israeli Left’s old guard. He will be remembered warmly for never turning away a person in need, but also for his contentious attitudes toward religious and Mizrahi Jews. For better or worse, there…

By Dimi Reider December 9, 2015

Israeli and Palestinian flags in a peace rally (Activestills.org)

Israel’s mainstream Channel 2 starts to question the two-state solution

What does it mean when the Israeli mainstream elite questions the two-state solution, which up until now has enjoyed practically unquestioned stature in Israeli society? An analysis. Israel’s Channel 2 aired a lengthy item (starting around 30 minutes in) on Friday evening, asking a shocking question: Is the two-state solution still viable? This question is…

By Dahlia Scheindlin June 3, 2013

Soccer balls (Photo: Stevendepolo/flickr)

Racist Israeli soccer team left in the dust

A small low-budget team from northern Israel with four Arab citizens of Israel on its team has just won the championship, while the Arab-free Israeli soccer club notorious for its racist fan base came out a loser. By Issa Boursheh Racism and violence are on the rise in Israel’s soccer fields. In March alone, there…

By +972 Magazine April 3, 2012

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Can Israel incorporate the Nakba? Response to Joseph Dana

by Roi Ben Yehuda Over at Tablet, Joseph Dana writes an important piece on Israel’s problematic relationship with the Nakba narrative (the expulsion/dislocation of over 750,000 Palestinians from their homes in what is now Israel) and the imperative of integrating this narrative into Israel’s public discourse. He concludes: Including the Nakba in Israeli public discourse,…

By +972 Magazine June 2, 2011

MK Dov Khenin of the Hadash party. (photo: Yossi Gurvitz)

Is Israel preparing for a population transfer?

One of the goals of the 1956 Kafr Qasim Massacre, as envisioned by the action’s commander, Major Shmuel Malinki, was to encourage the mass flight of the Palestinians still living in Israel after the 1948 ethnic cleansing. Malinki was aware of staff plans for such expulsions, and remembered the role played by the Deir Yassin…

By Yossi Gurvitz October 9, 2010