Edo Konrad

Edo Konrad

Edo Konrad is the editor-in-chief of +972 Magazine. Based in Tel Aviv, he previously worked as an editor for Haaretz.

Recent Articles
Saturday Night Live's Michael Che, February 20, 2021. (YouTube Screenshot)
Saturday Night Live tells the uncomfortable truth about Israel
Michael Che's joke about Israel's COVID-19 vaccination campaign pokes fun at a regime that does little to hide its supremacist policies.
By Edo Konrad February 22, 2021
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Joint List party chairman Ayman Odeh talk during a vote at the Knesset on November 18, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
PODCAST: Why is Netanyahu suddenly courting Palestinian voters?
After years of inciting against Palestinian citizens of Israel, Bibi does an about-face. +972's Edo Konrad and Amjad Iraqi make sense of another election.
By Edo Konrad and Amjad Iraqi January 29, 2021
A general view of the construction work on the Tunnel Road, as seen from the Gilo settlement, December 15, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
How Israel’s road projects are ensuring apartheid is here to stay
The expansion of settler bypass roads in the West Bank has been central to turning Israel's 'temporary occupation' into a permanent one-state reality.
By Ahmad Al-Bazz and Edo Konrad December 31, 2020
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media at after a vote on a bill to dissolve the parliament, at the Knesset, Jerusalem, May 30, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
How did Israeli pundits become more right-wing than Fox News?
By spreading conspiracy theories about U.S. voter fraud, Netanyahu's media allies are enabling similar claims to be made in the next Israeli election.
By Edo Konrad November 15, 2020
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 21, 2016. (Haim Zach/GPO)
Progressives will keep up the fight for Palestine — with or without Biden
Rather than pegging hopes on a White House moored to bygone policies, Palestine activists should keep bolstering the movement from the ground up.
By Edo Konrad November 10, 2020
Police make arrests as Israelis take to the streets to protest against the government's ban on demonstrations, Tel Aviv, October 2, 2020. (Oren Ziv)
To fight its ‘war’ on COVID-19, Israel is turning citizens into enemies
To live with the pandemic, Israel will have to stop transforming civilian issues into matters of national security, says Israeli sociologist Yagil Levy.
By Edo Konrad October 22, 2020
Israelis take part in the ad-hoc 'Culture of Solidarity' group to prepare food deliveries for the second lockdown for underserved and impoverished communities across Israel, Tel Aviv, September 16, 2020. (Oren Ziv)
We’re on the precipice of disaster. Now is the time for solidarity
Those tasked with protecting the public have failed, leaving Israelis and Palestinians teetering on the edge as we head into a second lockdown.
By Edo Konrad September 25, 2020
The funeral of Yacoub Abu Al-Qi'an in Umm al-Hiran, January 24, 2017. (Activesitlls.org)
The killing of a Bedouin man is a weapon in Netanyahu’s war for survival
Netanyahu is using the wrongful police shooting of Yacoub Abu al-Qi'an as a cudgel to attack the authorities charging him with corruption.
By Edo Konrad September 9, 2020
Israeli Police arrest a Bedouin protester during a demonstration against the Prawer Plan, Hura, Naqab Desert, November 30, 2013. (Activestills)
A pat on the back for condemning anti-Arab racism
A video of a popular children's entertainer mocking Bedouin children was widely condemned by Israeli society. But does the singling out of one racist prevent a real reckoning?
By Edo Konrad July 15, 2020
A man working in the Meshek Achiya olive oil factory, Achiya, West Bank. March 3, 2009. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)
Israel’s Memorial Day gift to bereaved families: Olive oil from a West Bank settlement
The Defense Ministry's gift to bereaved Israeli families this year is made in an area of the West Bank notorious for land grabs and settler violence.
By Edo Konrad April 19, 2020
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  1. Saturday Night Live tells the uncomfortable truth about Israel
  2. This university claims to be pro-justice. So why is it banning Palestine activism?
  3. Israel denies COVID vaccine to Palestinian student at Tel Aviv University
  4. PODCAST: Reconstructing the fatal shooting of Ahmad Erekat
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  2. Noam Chomsky: Solidarity movements key to changing US Middle East policy
  3. US Jews are increasingly vocal on Israel. Why are their progressive groups still silent?
  4. This database is exposing decades of Israel’s shady arms deals
  5. In its war on Palestinian students, Israel deems book fairs and falafel sales a crime