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Joint Lost leader Ayman Odeh on the campaign trail (photo: Courtesy)

How the Joint List has already made history in Israel

No matter what happens on election day, or what kind of coalition is formed afterwards, the Joint List’s very existence has already changed the face of Israeli history. The fact that the Joint List is likely to be the third largest slate in the next Knesset means they cannot be ignored. All the Israeli papers,…

By Mairav Zonszein March 15, 2015

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Photo by Activestills.org)

Netanyahu on how his old U.S. high school ‘changed’

More evidence that his racism doesn’t stop at Arabs. I’ve never written about a particular comment Bibi Netanyahu made when I interviewed him in the summer of 1993, because as objective evidence of anti-black racism, it’s not exactly slam-dunk. But this weekend Netanyahu accused Israel’s friendliest, most unthreatening Arab public figure, broadcaster-turned-candidate Zohair Bahloul, of…

By Larry Derfner January 25, 2015

All Arabs are apprently "deplorable.' Edelstein (on the right). (Photo: drmikeevans, CC BY-SA 2.0)

Israel’s Propaganda Minister: Arabs are a deplorable nation

Israel’s Propaganda and Diaspora Minister, Yuli Edelstein, said the Arabs are a “deplorable nation.” His spokesman: He meant every one of them Israel’s Propaganda and Diaspora Minister, Yuli Edelstein, told a crowd in a public diplomacy event in Or Yehuda that “as long as the Arab nation continues to be a deplorable nation, which continues…

By Yossi Gurvitz December 26, 2011

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Look, “who started” is not what 1948 is all about

“The Arabs started the war” has been a long-standing Israeli argument against the commemoration and amendment of the wrongs of the Nakba. But the truth is that the Nakba is what happened during and after the war – not how it began. Shlomo Avineri has an op-ed in Haaretz this weekend, rather misleadingly proclaiming that “The truth…

By Dimi Reider June 18, 2011

Airport security and Arab citizens: change in sight?

This week, Israel’s Supreme Court chipped away at one of the most egregious Israeli practices: the infamous security examinations of Palestinian/Arab citizens at Israeli airports. The Court, responding to a 2007 petition by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel against the Israel Airports Authority, the General Security Services and the Ministry of Transportation, directed…

By Dahlia Scheindlin March 10, 2011

3 KM To Europe. Sign pointing to Tel Aviv from Jaffa. (photo: Joseph Dana)

At a rally for Egypt in Tel Aviv, some express racist ideas

[youtube width=”500″ height=”378″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eqyOSWfZ0k[/youtube] In a region saturated by journalists vying for the best story and often missing the most powerful ones, new media platforms have opened a space for the stories that fall through the cracks of mainstream reporting outlets. These platforms allow bold journalists to get to the heart of a society and investigate…

By Joseph Dana February 5, 2011

Busloads of prejudice: Revealing encounters on Israeli roads

I’m traveling all over the country these days for a project, and I mean all over. I’m visiting every town large enough to possess a central bus terminal. The article deals with these terminals and their general state of neglect. I vowed to visit them all. Yes, these places are in suffering from disrepair, but…

By Yuval Ben-Ami November 1, 2010