Ben Reiff

Ben Reiff

Ben Reiff is Deputy Editor at +972 Magazine, based in London. He has written for The Guardian, The Nation, New Statesman, Prospect, and Haaretz, and spoken on Al Jazeera’s Listening Post and Britain’s LBC radio. He is also a founding member of the editorial collective at Vashti Media. Twitter: @bentreyf.

Recent Articles
A report about the shooting at the Israeli Embassy in Paraguay, in the local newspaper La Tarde, May 4, 1970.
The Paraguay Scheme: Israel’s secret plan to deport Gazans in the ‘70s
A new podcast series lifts the veil on the Mossad’s failed attempt to expel 60,000 Palestinians soon after occupying the Gaza Strip. Almost six decades later, Israel’s methods and objectives remain eerily similar.
By Ben Reiff March 26, 2026
Mohammed Kanaan (wearing the red keffiyeh) takes a selfie with deported Palestinian men who had been released at a checkpoint near the town of Ni’lin, including Maher Awad, 25, from Michigan (foreground), and Sameer Zeidan, 47, from Louisiana, (background), occupied West Bank, Jan. 21, 2026. (Courtesy)
U.S. secretly deporting Palestinians to West Bank in coordination with Israel
Palestinians arrested by ICE are being flown, bound and shackled, on private jet belonging to Israeli-American tycoon close to Trump, investigation reveals.
By Ghousoon Bisharat and Ben Reiff February 5, 2026
Palestinians mourn the death of those killed in an Israeli airstrike outside the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, March 18, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
Israel’s return to war is a prelude to mass expulsion
With Trump’s green light for ethnic cleansing, Israel’s renewed attack on Gaza threatens to become an all-out effort to empty the enclave of Palestinians.
By Ben Reiff March 18, 2025
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks about the need for Israeli troops to remain in the Philadelphi Corridor during a Hebrew press conference in Jerusalem on September 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Why did a British Jewish newspaper publish fake Israeli intelligence?
Israel’s army suspects fabrications published in the Jewish Chronicle were part of a pro-Bibi influence campaign, while the article’s author is not as he claims.
By Ben Reiff September 11, 2024
A Black Panthers protest in Jerusalem, 1971. (Yosef Hochman, courtesy of the Yad Yaari Research and Documentation Center)
Who is reaping the fruits of the Israeli Black Panthers’ struggle?
Half a century after setting off a political earthquake from the impoverished streets of Jerusalem, the radical Mizrahi movement has been largely forgotten. A new book seeks to untangle their contested legacy.
By Ben Reiff July 26, 2024
Jews march within a large rally for a ceasefire in Gaza in central London, November 11, 2023. (Alisdare Hickson/CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED)
A ‘no-go zone’ for Jews? The making of a moral panic in London
While antisemitism in the U.K. has certainly risen, politicians and the media are deliberately inflaming sensationalist narratives for a repressive agenda.
By Ben Reiff March 13, 2024
Israeli Justice Minister Yariv Levin addresses the Knesset ahead of a vote to abolish the reasonableness standard, Jerusalem, July 24, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
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.
By Ben Reiff July 25, 2023
Settlers of the Nachala Settlement Movement set up tents near Kiryat Arba, with the intention to establish illegal outposts in the West Bank, July 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Smotrich wants one million West Bank settlers. That’s not so far-fetched
Seeking to double the settler population, Israel's far-right government is expediting infrastructural plans that were — often literally — laid decades ago.
By Ben Reiff July 12, 2023
Rabbi Leo Dee at the funeral of his daughters Maia and Rina at the Gush Etzion Regional Cemetery in Kfar Etzion on April 9, 2023. The sisters were killed in a shooting attack in the Jordan Valley; their mother, Lucy, later died of her wounds sustained in the same attack. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
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.
By Ben Reiff April 11, 2023
Far-right MK Itamar Ben-Gvir takes part in the 'flag march' in the city of Lydd, December 5, 2021. (Oren Ziv)
Israelis are calling their leaders fascists. Why can’t British politicians?
What will it take for British officials and other international actors to start taking Israeli leaders at their word and offer any meaningful pushback?
By Ben Reiff February 7, 2023
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