Edo Konrad

Edo Konrad is the former editor-in-chief of +972 Magazine.

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Edo Konrad. (Oren Ziv)

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.

By Edo Konrad September 15, 2023

Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir attends a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 30, 2023. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

‘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.

By Edo Konrad August 25, 2023

Bezalel Smotrich, February 6, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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

Israeli activists hold a protest in Tel Aviv against Israeli military rule over Palestinians in the West Bank, September 23, 2021. (Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

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

Palestinian children inspect the damaged to a house following Israel's assault on Gaza, Rafah, Gaza Strip, August 8, 2022. (Abed Rahim Khatib /Flash90)

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…

By Edo Konrad August 8, 2022

Israeli forces search for the attacker around the scene of a shooting at a bar on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv, April 7, 2022. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

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.

By Edo Konrad April 10, 2022

Pro-Ukraine protesters demonstrate in Tel Aviv against Russia's invasion, February 26, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

Russia’s invasion should be a mirror for Israeli society

This article originally appeared in “The Landline,” +972’s weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. On Saturday night, two days after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, thousands of Israelis, most of them from former Soviet republics, took to the streets of Tel Aviv. Draped in Ukrainian flags, they marched through the city with a clear message: Vladimir…

By Edo Konrad February 27, 2022

Members of Amnesty International, including Saleh Hijazi (left) hold a press conference in Jerusalem announcing the release of the organization's report on Israeli apartheid, February 1, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

Why Amnesty is taking aim at the ‘root causes’ of Israeli apartheid

Amnesty International's Saleh Hijazi speaks to +972 about his organization's new report, the Israeli government’s harsh response, and why our analysis of Israeli apartheid needs to begin from 1948.

By Edo Konrad February 1, 2022

A Palestinian firefighter puts out a blazing car that had been set on fire by settlers in the Palestinian village of Burin, West Bank, January 21, 2022. (Courtesy of Yesh Din)

The purpose of settler terrorism

This article originally appeared in “The Landline,” +972’s weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. On the morning of Friday, Jan. 21, a group of mostly Jewish Israelis drove up to the village of Burin in the northern West Bank to accompany farmers as they planted olive trees. The action, which was led by the Olive Harvest Coalition…

By Edo Konrad January 28, 2022

Jewish Israelis march through Jerusalem's Muslim Quarter in response to a shooting attack that killed an Israeli man and wounded four others, November 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

How do you shrink colonialism?

This article originally appeared in the “The Landline,” +972’s weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. Since its inauguration this past June, the Bennett-Lapid coalition has made overturning the legacy of Benjamin Netanyahu one of its central goals. The new government, they claimed, would no longer be plagued by corruption, cronyism, and a deep derision for the media and…

By Edo Konrad December 26, 2021