Matan Kaminer

Matan Kaminer is an anthropologist, a postdocotoral Buber Fellow at the Hebrew University, and a member of the board of Academia for Equality.

Recent Articles
A model of the new Palestinian city of Rawabi is displayed at the center of the Rawabi project site, Feb. 23, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
The Palestinian city that mimics its colonizers
The West Bank city of Rawabi illustrates how Palestinian capitalists are trying — and failing — to form a middle class by mirroring Israel's neoliberal policies.
By Matan Kaminer August 29, 2021
Members of the Israeli Socialist Left (SHASI) march in Tel Aviv on May Day, May 1, 1990. (Courtesy of the Kaminer family)
Splintered but not broken: A history of Israel’s independent left
From class struggles to women's rights to fighting occupation, Israel's 'independent left' was never a cohesive social movement. Yet its impact is being felt to this day.
By Matan Kaminer and Joel Beinin May 28, 2020
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with cabinet members attending a memorial ceremony marking 24 years since the assassination of former israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, in the Knesset on November 10, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The illusion of stability is key to the Israeli right’s rule
The right portrayed Israel as an island immune to the world’s political and economic turmoil over the past decade. The left needs a coherent, inclusive platform to challenge that narrative.
By Matan Kaminer December 30, 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
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