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Women Behind the Wall is a podcast which explores what life is like for Christian Palestinian women living under occupation.

This Palestinian Life: Uncovering the stories of women behind the wall

A podcast highlighting stories of Christian Palestinian women aims to inform new audiences on how occupation impacts their personal lives. A mother in the West Bank struggling to explain to her child, on reaching a checkpoint, that no, they have not yet arrived at the zoo. A grandmother in Beit Sahour who wishes to join…

By Henriette Chacar August 29, 2018

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with IDF Chief of Staff, Benny Gantz and then Home Front Defense Minister Gilad Erdan watching a military drill. (Photo: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

In my name, in your name, in all of our names

We talk endlessly about equality and feminism while putting up with a bunch of greedy pyromaniacs controlling the Middle East and running a war over our heads, a war in which we are but extras. And yet the role they assign us is instrumental: we are factories for their cannon fodder. By Naamit Mor Haim (translated…

By +972 Magazine September 30, 2014

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak in a briefing to to press on Iran (photo: IDF Spokesperson / CC BY-NC 2.0)

Gaza: Time for real men?

Israeli viewers are currently under attack – not only by rockets, but by a legion of serious, gruff, tough, men’s-man manly commentators manning the studios and explaining why the war makes sense to any reasonable… man. A text by Idan Landau. “And once again the screen is awash with men, battalions, battalions of men,…

By Dimi Reider November 17, 2012

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Israelis should self-reflect before criticizing Haredi segregation

Preface Before I begin, I would like to preface with a few points. First, I do not support the extremist religious elements in Beit Shemesh, as they have been recently discussed in the Israeli and international media. And yes, I would call those engaging in the behavior as covered by Israeli Channel 2 (and translated…

By Roee Ruttenberg December 30, 2011

Footloose in Jerusalem: Hear no evil, see no evil

The dancers of a Jerusalem-based company are organizing a protest against a policy designed to shield the eyes of passersby who would rather pretend they don’t exist Three years ago, I worked for the Kolben Dance Company, whose base is in the Gerard Bechar Center in Jerusalem. Today and tomorrow, joined by a group of…

By Ori J. Lenkinski November 22, 2011