Welcome to +972’s Sunday Recap!

Despite all efforts by the Israeli government, the new documentary “NAZA” is forcing some Israelis to reflect on the army’s mass killing in Gaza. But as Ayat Abou Shmeiss argued, Palestinian suffering cannot be the backdrop for an internal Israeli morality tale: Confronting Israel’s crimes means taking action to stop them (originally published on Local Call).

Amos Brison interviewed Israeli sociologist Yagil Levy about what he calls the “gray arm” of Israeli annexation — a settler-led wing of the army that is driving Palestinian displacement on the state’s behalf. But as Levy explains, this devil’s bargain comes not without costs.

Ahead of next month’s elections, a debate is unfolding within Palestinian society in Israel about the price Palestinians should pay for partnership with an opposition government. For Wasim Hosary, the opposition’s demands reveal that terms of Arab participation in Israeli politics haven’t changed in 80 years (originally published on Local Call). 

Yahia Lababidi reviewed Benjamin Moser’s new history of Jewish anti-Zionism, which recovers a tradition of dissenters who paid a price for opposing Palestinian dispossession, even as they could not prevent it.

And on the latest episode of the +972 Podcast, Ghousoon Bisharat spoke with anthropologist Eilat Maoz about the making of Israel’s Palestinian mafias: Maoz breaks down how organized crime took over Arab communities — and why it reveals the contradictions of Israeli state power.

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