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American Jews with Never Again Action demonstrate outside an ICE detention facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey, July 1, 2019. (Gili Getz)

The American Jews invoking the Holocaust to talk about Trump’s migrant camps

In the face of dire conditions at U.S. border patrol facilities, many American Jews are increasingly unafraid to invoke their people’s history to warn against what may come next. Weeks after New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s comments comparing immigration detention centers along the U.S.-Mexico border to concentration camps, reports of dire conditions at U.S. border patrol facilities continue to…

By Joshua Leifer July 10, 2019

Palestinian refugee children seen in a makeshift school in Nablus, West Bank, 1948. (Hanini/CC BY-SA 3.0)

For Israelis the Nakba is a footnote. For Palestinians it’s the heart of the conflict

Israelis tend to view the expulsions of the 1948 war as a small, local affair that was quite restrained compared to the Nazi genocide. For Palestinians, it is an ongoing dispossession. By Sam Freed To large portions of the Jewish Israeli public, the Nakba was small event — an historical side note. To most Palestinians, on the…

By +972 Magazine May 26, 2019

Palestinian protesters during clashes with Israeli forces along the border with the Gaza strip east of Gaza City on May 11, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

+972 Magazine’s 25 most-read posts of 2018

From Google Maps’ erasure of Palestine, to Israel’s Eurovision win, to the new Jewish-Arab movement that plans to save the Israeli left, here are the most popular articles we published this past year. By +972 Magazine Staff 25. ‘We’ll ensure it doesn’t escalate to violence — on our end’ It’s hard to believe now, but 2018 began…

By +972 Magazine December 26, 2018

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Nariman Tamimi (left), Bassem Tamimi (center), and Ahed Tamimi (right) walk into Nabi Saleh after Nariman and Ahed are released from Israeli prison, July 29, 2018. (Oren Ziv)

‘It is easy to be a terrorist, it’s much harder to pursue peace’

Eight months after she was sent to prison for filming her daughter slap an IDF soldier, Nariman Tamimi speaks about her time behind bars, the case for international pressure on Israel, and the way her family is treated by the Israeli media. ‘They know that Ahed is not a terrorist. If we wanted to be terrorists,…

By Oren Ziv August 1, 2018

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen in the Knesset plenum ahead of the vote on the Jewish Nation-State Law, July 18, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

With new laws, Netanyahu is hijacking Judaism as we know it

The leader of the largest Jewish population in the world is consciously abandoning modern Jewish identity in order to usher in a new Judaism. What kind? Just look to the Jewish Nation-State and Holocaust law. By David Sarna Galdi Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raised the ire of the Jewish world earlier this month when he…

By +972 Magazine July 22, 2018

Israeli activists block the convoy of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, as he leaves Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, July 19, 2018. (Oren Ziv)

‘A danger to humanity’: Activists block Hungarian PM’s convoy at Yad Vashem

Dozens of demonstrators, including Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors, block Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s convoy outside Israeli Holocaust museum. ‘He is a danger to humanity.’ By Oren Ziv Dozens of demonstrators blocked Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s motorcade as he left Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum, in Jerusalem Thursday, as part of his official visit to…

By Oren Ziv July 20, 2018

Felicia Langer exits the High Court in Jerusalem, after the hearing of the appeal against Bassem Shaka's expulsion. November 22, 1979. (Herman Hanina)

In memory of Felicia Langer, the first lawyer to bring the occupation to court

Felicia Langer was a Holocaust survivor, a communist, and one of the first Israeli lawyers to defend Palestinian residents of the occupied territories in the Israeli Supreme Court. She died in Germany last week. By Michael Sfard Israeli human rights lawyer Felicia Langer died Thursday in Germany. Langer was a human rights and peace activist,…

By +972 Magazine June 24, 2018

Mattan Helman was supposed to serve in the Nahal Brigrade in the occupied territories. Instead, he will refuse to enlist as a conscientious objector, a decision that will land him in jail.

My great-grandfather saved Jews during the Holocaust. Now I’m in jail for refusing to enlist in the IDF

Helman says his family’s history of resistance to oppression inspired his decision to refuse to enlist in the Israeli army. By Matan Helman Two Israeli draft refusers were sent to jail last Tuesday. Ayelet Brachfeld, 18, from Tel Aviv, and Matan Helman, 20, from Kibbutz HaOgen. Helman, who has already served 90 days in military prison,…

By +972 Magazine April 13, 2018

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in Poland. Auschwitz was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated in occupied Poland by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. (Isaac Harari/Flash90)

Between Poland’s Holocaust revisionism and Israel’s Nakba denial

Poland’s attempt to scrub clean its role in the murder of European Jewry is, at its core, no different from Israel’s attempt to erase the catastrophe that befell the Palestinians in 1948. By Haneen Zoabi The responses coming from Israel to the new Polish law, which forbids discussing war crimes committed by the Polish people…

By +972 Magazine January 28, 2018

African asylum seekers take part at a protest against the "Deposit Law" in Tel Aviv on June 10, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel to deliver asylum seekers to the hands of human smugglers

Even as it invokes the Holocaust at every turn, Israel is feeding the people who most need its protection to a brutal human smuggling industry. In doing so, it becomes an active player in the worst migration crisis since the Jewish people’s near-extinction. Exactly one decade ago, liberal Israelis were boasting of their government’s treatment of…

By Noa Yachot December 29, 2017

Ahed Tamimi in the Ofer prison military court. December 20, 2017. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

At 16, Israel promised me freedom. Why does it deny it to Ahed Tamimi?

Looking at the images of Ahed in court, I know we can never truly be free as long as we deny another people their freedom. And I wonder what freedom actually means if it takes locking up people like Ahed to secure it. By Simone Zimmerman When I was 16, I joined Facebook. I spent a…

By +972 Magazine December 21, 2017

Palestinians participate in a rally marking the 69th anniversary of the Nakba, Nablus, May 15, 2017. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

When will the Israeli Left accept the occupation started in ’48, not ’67?

Only when the Israeli Left accepts that the occupation began in 1948 — and remains an open wound for Palestinians — can Arabs and Jews truly refuse to be enemies. One of the negative characteristics of the Israeli “Left” is how it terms the military rule over the West Bank and Gaza “The Occupation.” Part of…

By Rami Younis June 6, 2017

Children visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, April 17, 2012. (Noam Moskowitz/Flash 90)

Teaching about the Holocaust in an Arab-Jewish school

How do you teach the universal lessons from national disasters throughout history, while preserving their uniqueness and respecting the pain of those connected to them? By Guy Aloni The tension leading up to Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Hand in Hand bilingual school in Jerusalem, where I teach, is the same every year. Teaching about Holocaust…

By +972 Magazine April 24, 2017