Edo Konrad

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

Recent Articles

Then-Blue and White party chariman Benny Gantz meets with Joint List MKs Ayman Odeh and Ahmad Tibi to discuss the possibility of establishing a minority government backed by Israel's Palestinian-led parties, October 19, 2019. (Ofek Avshalom)

The anti-Bibi bloc is about to destroy its chance to replace Netanyahu

The anti-Bibi camp was just a heartbeat away from partnering with the Joint List and potentially transforming Israeli politics. So what happened?

By Edo Konrad March 10, 2020

Joint List chairperson Ayman Odeh casts his ballot at a voting station in Haifa, during the Knesset Elections, on March 2, 2020. (Flash90)

Could the Joint List rise as Israel’s left-wing vanguard?

With consensus on annexation among the center and right in third election, the Zionist left will have to radically rethink its mission.

By Edo Konrad March 2, 2020

Members of the Haganah militia training in the Jeezrel Valley during the 1948 War in Palestine, March 3, 1948. (Zoltan Kluger/GPO)

Trump vilifies Palestinians for using the same violence that birthed Israel

Trump's 'Deal of the Century' speech condemned Palestinians for terrorism and praised Israel for peace — all while ignoring Israel's own violent history.

By Edo Konrad January 30, 2020

Naomi Klein. (Photo: Troy Page/Truthout)

WATCH: Naomi Klein talks climate justice, Palestine, and white supremacy

'If we look to Israel-Palestine, we see a really terrifying example of how to lose your humanity, how to fail to share land, and the monstrousness it requires to fail to share.'

By Edo Konrad December 8, 2019

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during a meeting of the right-wing parties bloc at the Knesset, Jerusalem, November 20, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Netanyahu to be indicted on charges of bribery, fraud

The prime minister has denied wrongdoing in the three cases against him, calling the investigations against him a 'witch hunt' by the media, police, and Israeli left.

By Edo Konrad November 21, 2019

Mourners attend the funeral of seven members of the Abu Malhous family killed by an Israeli airstrike, during their funeral, Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, November 14, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

With Gaza behind him, Netanyahu puts Israel’s Palestinians in the crosshairs

With corruption indictments closing in, Netanyahu hopes his scorched earth campaign against Palestinians will give Israelis the sense that they cannot afford change.

By Edo Konrad November 17, 2019

Palestinians evacuate the wounded from Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on November 12, 2019. Earlier in the day an Israeli air strike killed Palestinian Islamic Jihad field commander Baha Abu Al-Atta. (Fadi Fahd/Flash90)

To save himself, Netanyahu is going to war with Gaza

Even as Israel becomes chronically unable to form a government, the pounding of the Gaza Strip into oblivion persists — and could tip the scales in Netanyahu's favor.

By Edo Konrad November 12, 2019

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man argues with a secular social justice protester in Tel Aviv, July 18, 2011. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

PODCAST: What does Israeli liberalism look like?

+972's Dahlia Scheindlin argues that the fierce debate over the separation of religion and state in Israel’s latest elections could lead to a wider liberal shift in society.

By Edo Konrad September 27, 2019

Israelis walk across the light rail tracks in Jerusalem, September 8, 2015, as a sand storm hits Israel. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

From heat waves to ‘eco-apartheid’: Climate change in Israel-Palestine

While Israel's nascent climate justice movement tries to get the public's attention, Palestinians under occupation remain the most vulnerable to the dangerous effects of climate change.

By Matan Kaminer, Basma Fahoum and Edo Konrad August 8, 2019

Palestinians evacuate a protester during a Great Return March protest near the Gaza fence, east of Gaza City, November 2, 2018. (Mohammed Zaanoun/Activestills.org)

Israeli army knew it was unnecessarily killing Gaza protesters in real time

The Israeli army admits that it secretly changed its policy once it realized that shooting unarmed protesters in the leg was lethal. Rights group says the revelation is an admission that Israel was killing protesters without any justification. The Israeli military reportedly changed open-fire regulations for its snipers deployed along the Israel-Gaza fence after it…

By Edo Konrad July 24, 2019