Edo Konrad

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

Recent Articles

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

Israeli soldiers suppress a joint action organized by Palestinian, Israeli, and international Jewish activists in the South Hebron Hills, May 3, 2019. (Ahmad al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

What keeps Jewish activists fighting Israeli apartheid

A few weeks ago, my colleague Amjad Iraqi took to these pages to talk about the death of F.W. de Klerk, the last president of apartheid South Africa. A week after his death, I found myself in South Africa, where hardly anyone I spoke to was concerned with de Klerk’s passing. Instead, I met with…

By Edo Konrad December 6, 2021

Israeli soldiers confiscate computer equipment and client files in a raid on the offices of Defense for Children International - Palestine, Al-Bireh, West Bank, July 29, 2021. (DCI-P)

+972 stands with Palestinian rights groups under attack

News broke on Friday, October 22 that Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz signed an order declaring six of the most prominent Palestinian NGOs in the occupied territories “terrorist organizations,” claiming they are part of a network run by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The “evidence” cited for the move — which has…

By Edo Konrad October 24, 2021

Sally Rooney. (Chris Boland/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Sally Rooney is a model for Palestinian allyship

There is no lack of dedicated and passionate activists in the global Palestine solidarity movement. But when acclaimed Irish author Sally Rooney was forced to explain this week why she wouldn’t allow Modan, an Israeli publishing company, to put out her latest novel, “Beautiful World, Where Are You,” she gave us all a lesson in…

By Edo Konrad October 15, 2021

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett holds a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office, Jerusalem, August 18, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Washington’s three gifts to Naftali Bennett

Last week was a good one for Naftali Bennett, perhaps one of the best since he became prime minister more than three months ago. Bennett — who has turned delivering the final death blow to the two-state solution into a central pillar of his policies — was likely smiling wide when he saw how, in…

By Edo Konrad September 26, 2021

Thousands take part at a protest march to demand immediate action on climate change in Tel Aviv on September 27, 2019. (Flash90)

Climate breakdown is here. So is eco-apartheid

The damning new climate report published Monday by the United Nations has left many of us, myself included, feeling anxious and scared about our future. The report, published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has concluded that climate change is man-made, widespread, intensifying, and potentially irreversible. According to the report, we can expect more…

By Edo Konrad August 10, 2021

Workers at the Ben & Jerry's factory near Kiryat Malakhi, southern Israel, July 21, 2021. (Flash90)

PODCAST: A little ice cream goes a long way

Editors Edo Konrad and Amjad Iraqi discuss the backlash against Ben & Jerry's and what the company's decision could mean for the BDS movement.

By Edo Konrad and Amjad Iraqi July 29, 2021