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Ben Reiff
Ben Reiff is an editor at +972 Magazine and Vashti Media. Twitter: @bentreyf.
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While antisemitism in the U.K. has certainly risen, politicians and the media are deliberately inflaming sensationalist narratives for a repressive agenda.
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Israel’s justice minister gives away the real aim of the judicial coup’s first law
In a Knesset speech, Yariv Levin listed five gov't decisions that were blocked for being ‘unreasonable.’ All were about Palestinians and the occupation.
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Seeking to double the settler population, Israel's far-right government is expediting infrastructural plans that were — often literally — laid decades ago.
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A British-Israeli tragedy, born out of the occupation
To omit the violent context in which the Dee family killings occurred is to condemn countless more Palestinians and Israelis to the same fate.
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Israelis are calling their leaders fascists. Why can’t British politicians?
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Activists tell +972 that they want to challenge Israeli protesters to look beyond the far-right coalition and see the conditions that enabled its rise.
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Can a new Jewish-Arab party breathe life into the Israeli left?
'All its Citizens' wants to unite the left in Israel around the principle of complete equality for all. But can they even agree on what that looks like?
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The last first Israeli anti-Zionist
Sixty years after co-founding the radical leftist group Matzpen, Moshé Machover reflects on the organization’s enduring legacy, the internal splits that led to its demise, and its lessons for today's anti-Zionist left.
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In the war on African asylum seekers, Ben Gvir finds a hero’s welcome
Left-wing activists confronted the Kahanist lawmaker's visit to south Tel Aviv, but his supremacism appears to be mobilizing a growing base in the city.
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October 17, 2022
Why is Israel digging up the graves of Mizrahi children?
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August 24, 2022
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