Illustrative photo of Palestinian women standing in line as they try to pass through Qalandiya checkpoint, which separates the West Bank city of Ramallah from Jerusalem. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

We are all one staters now

The ideological argument over the future of Israel-Palestine disguises the fact that, for the past decade, we have been living in a one-state reality.
By Noam Sheizaf
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Leader of the Joint List, Ayman Odeh, casts his vote at a ballot station in Nazareth on election day for the 20th Knesset, March 17, 2015. (Basal Awidat/Flash90)

The Israeli right’s fury is driven by fear of Palestinian citizens

Palestinian citizens of Israel are intensifying their fight for equality. The right-wing has spent the last decade doing everything it can to stop them.
By Amjad Iraqi
Israeli settlers seen celebrating Israeli Independence Day near the outpost of Havat Gilad, West Bank, May 9, 2019. (Hillel Maeir/Flash90)

The decade Israel erased the Green Line

The settlement enterprise was viewed as temporary and reversible. Today, the West Bank has become part of the Israeli mainstream.
By Dror Etkes
A Palestinian building is blown up by Israeli forces in the village of Sur Baher, East Jerusalem, July 22, 2019. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Over 9,000 Palestinians displaced in a decade of West Bank demolitions

Israel's demolition regime destroyed over 6,000 Palestinian structures in the West Bank and Jerusalem, displacing thousands.
By Natasha Roth-Rowland
Hundreds of American Jews protest against ICE raids at an Amazon store in New York City, August 11, 2019. (Gili Getz)

+972 Magazine’s 25 most-read posts of 2019

From climate catastrophe in Israel-Palestine to the crackdown in Kashmir to the dark past and present of Israeli arms exports — here are our most popular articles from the last year.
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The Philippine Coast Guard presenting a shipment of 70 Israeli-made machine guns at the PCG National Headquarters Port Area on May 7, 2018. (Courtesy of Philippines Coast Guard)
The fight to expose Israel’s arms sales to the world’s most repressive regimes
In the span of less than 10 years, activists from across the political spectrum went head to head with the Israeli government, trying to bring an end to its arms exports to tyrannical governments worldwide.
By Sahar Vardi December 25, 2019
David Ben-Gurion publicly pronouncing the Declaration of the State of Israel, May 14 1948, beneath a large portrait of Theodor Herzl, founder of modern political Zionism, in the old Tel Aviv Museum of Art building on Rothschild St. (Rudi Weissenstein / Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Anti-Zionism is about correcting historical wrongs, not encouraging anti-Semitism
The debate around Zionism is vital, but also must not become a purity test that weakens solidarity where it can be built.
By Ran Greenstein December 23, 2019
President Trump seen during the lighting of the Menorah during an evening Hanukkah Reception in the East Room of the White House, December 11, 2019. (Joyce N. Boghosian/White House)
To counter Trump’s executive order, rethink America’s blank check to Israel
Against the backdrop of an emboldened global right-wing movement, American public officials need to take concrete action to end the obscenity of occupation once and for all.
By Zak Witus December 22, 2019
Activists protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, November 23, 2019.(Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
The many faces of Benjamin Netanyahu
Netanyahu has only been so successful because he reflects and represents the many faces of Israel: victor and victim, global citizen and international outcast, pyromaniac and war-shy.
By Dahlia Scheindlin December 22, 2019
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during the 2017 Invictus Games opening ceremonies in Toronto, Canada Sept. 23, 2017. (EJ Hersom)
Even with a liberal government, Canada disregards Palestinian rights
Canada presents itself as a bastion of liberalism. Why are Palestinians left out of its vision?
By Dalya Al Masri December 20, 2019
Palestinian boys dressed up as prisoners protest for the release of Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails, Gaza City, April 21 2007. (Ahmad Khateib/ Flash90)
When the Shin Bet rounds up Palestinians, Israeli media stops asking questions
When the Shin Bet announced it arrested 50 Palestinians linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the media simply parroted the agency's talking points.
By Oren Ziv December 19, 2019
President Trump's anti-Semitism czar and envoy Elan Carr speaks at an event in Tel Aviv, December 17, 2019. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Trump’s anti-Semitism czar: ‘Americans need philo-Semitic education’
Speaking at an event in Tel Aviv, Elan Carr calls the U.S. the 'most philo-Semitic country in the world,' likens BDS to Nazi-era boycotts of Jewish businesses, and attributes right-wing anti-Semitic violence to video game culture.
By Mairav Zonszein December 18, 2019
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson at the Prime Minister's House in Jerusalem on September 30, 2016. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)
The Labour Party lost, but a new left is emerging in the UK
The grassroots movement supporting Corbyn's party in last week's election, which includes progressive Jews, didn't get the full attention it deserves.
By Dana Mills December 17, 2019
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and former mayor of Haifa Yona Yahav pose with Indian soldiers during a ceremony for Indian soldiers who fought in the First World War, at the British cemetery in Haifa, July 6, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/GPO)
Israeli weapons are heading for the East — with no concern for human rights
We don't know all the countries Israel's secretive arms industry is targeting for future sales. What we do know is that the people of Myanmar, Kashmir, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Palestine, and others will pay the price.
By Sahar Vardi December 16, 2019
Israeli security forces take position to protect Jewish visitors as they make their way to visit a Jewish religious site in the West Bank city of Hebron, November 3, 2018. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
Why are foreign lawmakers aiding Israel’s attacks on Palestinian rights?
Two resolutions passed by the French parliament and U.S. Congress last week have troubling implications for Palestinians and their allies.
By Amjad Iraqi December 13, 2019
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