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Screenshot from Benny Gantz's election campaign video, in which the ex-IDF chief boasts of destroying entire neighborhoods in Gaza. The footage was allegedly stolen from a Gaza-based media company.

Palestinian company says ex-IDF chief stole footage of Gaza destruction for campaign video

Gaza-based ‘Media Town’ claims Benny Gantz, who many see as Netanyahu’s only credible opponent in the upcoming elections, cribbed aerial footage of destroyed neighborhoods in Gaza following Operation Protective Edge. A Palestinian media company is claiming that former Israeli army chief and aspiring politician Benny Gantz stole their footage for a campaign video boasting of the death and destruction…

By Oren Ziv January 27, 2019

Israeli security forces at the scene of a shooting attack at the entrance to the Israeli settlement of Givat Asaf, in the West Bank, on December 13, 2018. Two soldiers were killed and several others wounded. Photo by (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

This doesn’t end well

There are zero prospects of finding a way out of this situation. Nobody is coming to end the occupation, and there will be no end to the violence until the violence of the occupation ends. One of the most depressing things about Israel-Palestine is just how predictable and cyclical the violence can be. The almost-war in Gaza,…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man December 13, 2018

Israeli soldiers show an order for a closed military zone to a cameraman on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza, November 15, 2012. (by: Oren Ziv/Activesillts.org)

IDF Censor redacted 2,358 news articles last year

While the number of articles submitted to the IDF Censor decreased in 2017, the percentage of articles that it fully or partially redacted went up. Israel’s Military Censor outright prohibited the publication of 271 articles in 2017, more than five a week, and partially or fully redacted a total of 2,358 news items submitted to it…

By Haggai Matar July 4, 2018

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Israeli and Palestinian women from ‘Women Wage Peace’ march near the Dead Sea in the West Bank to demand that their leaders do more for peace, October 8, 2017. (Flash90)

How can women ‘wage peace’ without talking about occupation?

A recent rally organized by ‘Women Wage Peace’ may have looked momentous, yet it ignored 50 years of military occupation, all while recycling the same old tropes about the role of women in violent conflicts. I arrived early and with many reservations to the rally organized by “Women Wage Peace” in Jerusalem’s Independence Park this…

By Orly Noy October 13, 2017

White supremacists seen during the Unite the Right rally, Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12, 2017. (Rodney Dunning/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Challenging racial supremacy — from Charlottesville to Tel Aviv

As long as our recognition of racial supremacy begins and ends with enraged men beating up people of color, leftists, and anyone else they see as a target, we will never approach the reckoning needed to effect meaningful change — neither in Charlottesville nor in Tel Aviv. CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA — Three years ago, on a broiling…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland October 9, 2017

Israeli conscientious objector Noa Gur Golan. (YouTube screenshot)

She dreamed of being an IDF pilot — now she’s refusing to enlist

As a child, Noa Gur Golan dreamed of being a pilot in the Israeli Air Force. But as she got older and became exposed to the occupation and the siege on Gaza, she decided to ditch her dream and refuse to serve in the army. Now she speaks about the support of her family, her pacifist views, and why she…

By Social TV July 31, 2017

Israelis march in support of IDF troops fighting in the Gaza Strip in the Old City of Jerusalem, July 31, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Against the Israeli Right’s state of war

Despite the fallout from the State Comptroller’s report on the 2014 Gaza war, we must remember that the violent atmosphere it created was a boon for an Israeli Right that fosters nationalism, racism and persecution of the Left. By Alon Mizrahi 1. Throughout my life, I have witnessed Israel take part in a long list of…

By +972 Magazine March 3, 2017

Israeli professor Asa Kasher attends a Foreign Affairs and security meeting in the Israeli parliament. November 3, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

Former IDF ethicist tapped to censor ‘political speech’ in Israeli universities

Professor Asa Kasher, whose code of ethics for the IDF found expression in the devastation of the 2014 Gaza war, is set to decide what lecturers at Israel’s universities and colleges can and can’t say. Education Minister Naftali Bennett intends to lay down new “ethical rules” for what lecturers at Israel’s centers of higher learning can and can’t say regarding politics,…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland December 9, 2016

Israeli naval forces seize control of one of the ships trying to break the siege on Gaza in September 2010. (IDF Spokesperson)

Why I’ll be on the Gaza flotilla this Jewish New Year

In the days before Rosh Hashana, days of introspection and forgiveness, I am reminded that by virtue of my identity as an Israeli citizen I am responsible for the disaster and tragedy befalling the people of Gaza. Introspection begins with opening one’s eyes and recognizing one’s sins, and only then trying to repair them. There is…

By Orly Noy September 25, 2016

Smoke from an Israeli air strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, July 12, 2014. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Resource: The Whitewashing Procedure

The Israeli bodies responsible for investigating the events of Operation Protective Edge are engaged primarily in creating the false impression of a functioning system that ostensibly seeks to discover the truth. In the meantime, those actually responsible for violations are not even questioned, and the investigations have been confined to superficial inspections of a number…

By +972 Resources September 23, 2016

Elizabeth Tanboura stands with three of her daughters: Sundos, Malak, and Marwa (right), in front of their destroyed home in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip. Elizabth lost her husband and 2 of her children during an Israeli attack on August 25, 2014. Two other boys survived as they were not in the house at the time of the attack. Photo taken March 19, 2015. (Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Telling the stories of Gaza’s ‘obliterated families’

A new project uses heartbreaking photos, text and video to tell the stories of the Palestinian families who lost more than three members in the 2014 Gaza war, the stories of their lives, their deaths and the survival of those left behind. There is no shortage of numbers and statistics that are cited in telling,…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man July 8, 2016

Israelis who live along the Gaza border march to demand their leaders prevent the next war, May 27, 2016. (Social TV/Screenshot)

Israelis who live along Gaza border: Stop the next war

Israelis who live along Gaza border suffer more than anybody in Israel whenever war breaks out. A group of local residents recently marched on the Erez military crossing into the Strip, demanding that leaders from Israel, Hamas, and the world, find a solution to the violence and hope for a normal life. Read more: Palestinian…

By Social TV June 22, 2016

Israelis take part in the annual pride parade in Tel Aviv, June 12, 2015. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

No room for Palestinians at Tel Aviv Pride Parade

Until the Israeli LGBTQ community truly begins caring about Palestinian oppression, Palestinian queers will have to keep checking our identity at the door. Fady Khoury (translated by Tal Haran) This past March I took part in a panel as part of Washington D.C.’s Independent Film Festival, where Jake Weisfeld’s new documentary, “Oriented,” was screened. The film, which…

By +972 Magazine June 2, 2016