Ameer Fakhoury

Dr. Ameer Fakhoury is a lawyer and sociologist, and serves as the Academic Director of the Nissan Center at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem.

Recent Articles
A fragment of an Iranian missile lodged in the ground in the Golan Heights, April 8, 2026. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
The beginning of the end of Israel’s ‘permanent security’ doctrine
Israel’s relentless pursuit of ‘total victory’ has entangled it in an unwinnable war with Iran, eroding legitimacy abroad and deepening moral decay within.
By Meron Rapoport and Ameer Fakhoury April 24, 2026
Anti-government protesters march against the government's judicial overhaul, Tel Aviv, July 29, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
The only answer to the Israeli right’s war: A state for all its citizens
Israel’s protest leaders are strengthening an ethnocratic identity that lacks all consistency with their ‘democratic’ mission. But an alternative exists.
By Ameer Fakhoury July 30, 2023
Itamar Ben Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit party, and chairman of the Religious Zionism Party, Bezalel Smotrich, at an election campaign event in Sderot, October 26, 2022. (Flash90)
Why the ‘second Nakba’ government wants to remake the Israeli state
The far right’s crusade on secular liberalism is provoking mass opposition in Israel, but it cannot be separated from the state's anti-Palestinian mission.
By Meron Rapoport and Ameer Fakhoury December 9, 2022
Israeli Jewish extremists dance during the Flag March on Jerusalem Day, May 29, 2022. (Oren Ziv)
How threats of a second Nakba went mainstream
With the death of the Green Line and the growing political influence of Palestinian citizens of Israel, prominent right-wing figures are now openly advocating mass expulsion to preserve Jewish supremacy.
By Meron Rapoport and Ameer Fakhoury June 23, 2022
A Palestinian citizen of Israel takes part in a protest against annexation of thr West Bank, Tel Aviv, June 6, 2020. (Oren Ziv)
The Israeli right wants Arabs at the polls — with one big condition
Israeli politicians are scrambling for the votes of Arab citizens. But this love affair is driven by a colonial goal: erasing the community's Palestinian identity.
By Meron Rapoport and Ameer Fakhoury February 4, 2021
A Jewish Israeli man holding an Israeli flag confronts a Palestinian woman holding a kaffiyeh on the sidelines of the ultra-nationalist "Jerusalem Day" march, May 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Jewish-Arab partnership as an antidote to Jewish supremacism
We need to redefine Israeli politics. No more left and right, liberal or conservative, religious versus secular. Instead: a new partnership of Arabs and Jews, working side-by-side to combat Jewish supremacism. By Meron Rapoport and Ameer Fakhoury Israel has been at a political dead end for many months, particularly since the most recent national election…
By Meron Rapoport and Ameer Fakhoury October 30, 2019
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