Edo Konrad

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

Recent Articles

Welcome to +972’s new newsletter!

Over the past year, the +972 editors have been using our newsletter to write short reflections about some of the week’s top stories, offering political analysis and personal perspectives to our thousands of followers around the world. Your responses have been very supportive — so we decided to give our newsletter a face-lift. As the…

By Edo Konrad July 26, 2021

Illustrative photo of students completing assignments in a classroom. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

How British pro-Israel groups are rewriting Middle East history textbooks

For the second time in two years, a major international education company has withdrawn two British school textbooks on Middle East history, in response to accusations of bias regarding their Israel-Palestine content. Pearson, which also oversees national exams for 14- to 16-year-olds in the U.K., announced the decision on June 8 after an independent review…

By Edo Konrad July 18, 2021

Palestinian women cross the Qalandiya checkpoint, outside the West bank city of Ramallah, on June 23, 2017, (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel’s most racist law comes crumbling down — for now

The failure to renew the Citizenship Law offers Palestinian families a moment of respite. Four takeaways from the first big crisis plaguing the new coalition.

By Edo Konrad July 6, 2021

Hundreds of Palestinian citizens of Israel protest in the city of Jaffa in solidarity with Sheikh Jarrah and Gaza, May 15, 2021. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

PODCAST: An uprising for Palestinian unity

The +972 editors discuss the role of Palestinian citizens of Israel in the latest wave of popular resistance between the river and the sea.

By Amjad Iraqi, Edo Konrad and Henriette Chacar June 3, 2021

Smoke and flames rise after the Israeli military conducts an airstrike west of Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, May 11, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israel’s top newspapers aren’t concerned with the killing of Palestinian kids

The fate of Palestinian children bombed by Israeli fighter jets in Gaza is barely an afterthought for the Israeli press.

By Edo Konrad May 11, 2021

Israeli police officers guard as extreme right-wing Jews outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, April 22, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

PODCAST: A night of Jewish supremacist violence in Jerusalem

Editor-in-Chief Edo Konrad interviews Orly Noy about the racism and brutality she witnessed during a far-right march in Jerusalem last week.

By Edo Konrad April 30, 2021

Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas (center) speaks to his supporters on election night in the city of Tamra, March 23, 2021. (Oren Ziv)

How an Islamist became Israel’s unlikely political kingmaker

The fall of the Joint List and rise of Ra'am's Mansour Abbas show that Israeli politics can no longer ignore Palestinian citizens — even if it may end up boosting the right.

By Edo Konrad March 24, 2021

LGBTQ Palestinians take part in a protest following the stabbing of a queer Arab teen in Tel Aviv, August 1, 2019. (Mati Milstein)

‘LGBTQ rights have become a litmus test in Palestinian society’

The growing visibility of queer Palestinians poses a challenge to Arab political parties that are exploiting homophobia ahead of the Israeli election, says attorney and activist Fady Khoury.

By Edo Konrad March 17, 2021

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