Ameer Makhoul

Ameer Makhoul is a writer and political activist from Haifa. He is currently a researcher at The Progress Center for Policies in London, and previously directed the NGO Ittijah, worked at the Institute for Palestine Studies, and headed the High Follow-Up Committee’s Popular Committee for Defending Freedoms.

Recent Articles
Ra'am head Mansour Abbas attends a session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament. May 16, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)
Netanyahu’s veiled threat to outlaw Ra’am is a message to all Palestinian citizens
With elections in the offing, the prime minister is plotting another term in power via delegitimizing an Arab kingmaker and suppressing voter turnout.
By Ameer Makhoul December 1, 2025
Rubble on the streets of the West Bank city of Jenin, following a major Israeli aerial and ground offensive in Jenin, in one of Israel's biggest military operations in the Palestinian territory in years, July 4, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
Israel’s war on refugee camps seeks to correct its mistake of 1948
Refugee camps have long been a nexus of Israeli oppression and Palestinian resistance. The Jenin invasion reveals a new stage in that battle.
By Ameer Makhoul August 1, 2023
Thousands of Jewish students attend a ceremony marking the end of "Shnat Shmita", in the Israeli settlement of Efrat, in Gush Etzion, October 2, 2022. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
Religious Zionists have captured the state. What will it mean for Palestinians?
Unlike Israeli Jews, who are opposing the government to protect the status quo, Palestinians across the Green Line are fighting a more existential danger.
By Ameer Makhoul January 22, 2023
Israeli police patrol on a boat during the annual crossing of the Kinneret, the Sea of Galilea, September 21, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
A tragic drowning tells the story of Israeli neglect — and Palestinian self-reliance
When Palestinian citizens mobilized to recover a man’s body in Lake Tiberias, they demonstrated how popular action can counter Israel's war of attrition.
By Ameer Makhoul August 15, 2022
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  4. Life in a laboratory of Israeli ethnic cleansing
  5. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  1. Arms sales to Israel are slowing. But that's only half the story
  2. Life in a laboratory of Israeli ethnic cleansing
  3. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  4. Qusra is where Israel’s lies about settler violence hit a wall
  5. In Jerusalem’s Mamilla Cemetery, an entire heritage is being erased
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  3. Palestinian who snatched settler’s weapon was killed while unarmed, videos show
  4. As Israel sabotages Gaza talks, Hamas’ new ‘warrior leader’ faces his first challenge
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