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Edo Konrad is the former editor-in-chief of +972 Magazine.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen broke a BDS rule. Now he is its vocal advocate
The Vietnamese-American writer reflects on his ‘mea culpa’ with Israeli publishers, the diminishing power of Israeli and U.S. propaganda, and why cultural figures must take a public stance on Palestinian rights.
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How a hostage family leader became one of the loudest anti-war voices in Israel
After Ayala Metzger's relatives were kidnapped from Nir Oz and abandoned by the government, she had no choice but to become an ‘anti-regime dissident’ — and insist on a shared Israeli-Palestinian future.
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The ‘pact of silence’ between Israelis and their media
Israel’s long-subservient media has spent the past year imbuing the public with a sense of righteousness over the Gaza war. Reversing this indoctrination, says media observer Oren Persico, could take decades.
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Edo Konrad
October 16, 2024
What Israelis don’t want to hear about Iran and Hezbollah
For years, Israeli expert Ori Goldberg has tried to challenge commonly-held assumptions about the Islamic Republic and its allies. Will anyone listen?
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September 20, 2024
My last letter: Speak the words we were taught to fear
+972’s outgoing editor-in-chief reflects on the changes to the site and on the ground during his tenure, and calls for courage to confront reality head-on.
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Edo Konrad
September 15, 2023
‘Sorry Mohammad’: What’s behind Ben Gvir’s apartheid honesty?
The national security minister’s brazen remarks are simply an expression of what this government was elected to do: rip the mask off Jewish supremacy.
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Edo Konrad
August 25, 2023
The danger of treating Smotrich as an anomaly
By marking one Israeli politician as unacceptable, U.S. Jews are sidestepping the need to reckon with the wider system that enables his genocidal views.
By
Edo Konrad
March 9, 2023
How this government will turn its Jewish critics into dissidents
The transformation of Israeli leftists into dissidents is a reminder that no one is safe from the attempts to turn the 'wrong kind' of Jews into enemies.
By
Edo Konrad
December 16, 2022
What was the point of this Gaza war?
This article originally appeared in “The Landline,” +972’s weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. Three days after Israel launched its latest military operation in Gaza, it still remains unclear what the hell the point of all this was. With the announcement of an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire on Sunday night, Israeli analysts have been quick to deem caretaker Prime Minister…
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Edo Konrad
August 8, 2022
Israel’s false promise of security
Those devising punishments for Palestinians after attacks in Israeli cities offer nothing but a violent ritual in which despair and rage are the order of the day.
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Edo Konrad
April 10, 2022
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