Michael Sappir

Michael Sappir is a leftist writer and organizer from Israel, based in Germany. Twitter: @meemsaf
Recent Articles
A Palestine solidarity demonstration in the Potsdamer Platz area, Berlin, October 15, 2023. The police suppressed the demonstration shortly after authorizing it.
The spiraling absurdity of Germany’s pro-Israel fanaticism
As repression of Palestine solidarity penetrates every sector of life, the state's liberal self-image is fast becoming a story Germans can only tell themselves.
By Michael Sappir March 21, 2024
A copy of Amnesty International's new report accusing Israel of committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, launched in Jerusalem on February 1, 2022. (Oren Ziv)
Why is Amnesty Germany staying silent on the apartheid report?
Amnesty Germany’s discomfort with publicizing the new report on Israeli apartheid highlights the sorry state of human rights discourse in the country.
By Michael Sappir February 3, 2022
Nemi El-Hassan. (Paul Alexander Probst)
The inquisition of Nemi El-Hassan
The campaign to cancel a Palestinian-German journalist is not aimed at fighting antisemitism, but at suppressing Palestinians' political existence.
By Michael Sappir October 6, 2021
Israelis holding signs of the Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael) take part in a Tu Bishvat tradition of planting trees, in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Michmash, in the Binyamin District, Jan. 15, 2014. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
The JNF is no innocent charity
The Jewish National Fund presents itself in Germany as a 'green' organization serving all of Israel's residents. That's not what its leaders say in Israel.
By Michael Sappir March 4, 2021
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