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Palestinian journalist Makbula Nassar.

When political persecution hits close to home

+972 Magazine strongly condemns the silencing of and political assault against Palestinian journalist Makbula Nassar by Israel’s most-read newspaper and a senior government minister. By +972 Magazine Israel Hayom, the free daily widely viewed as Prime Minister Netanyahu’s mouthpiece, reached new heights of McCarthyism when it targeted journalist Makbula Nassar, a blogger for Local Call…

By +972 Magazine November 8, 2017

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, November 1, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel increasingly defiant as the world loses interest in Palestine

From the prime minister down, the Israeli government has effectively dropped the charade that the occupation is temporary, or that it actually fears consequences for its intransigence. Israel’s leadership wants you to think it is worried about some bold move by President Barack Obama during his lame duck period between the November 8 U.S. elections and…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man November 1, 2016

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud minister Israel Katz at a campaign event in Raanana. (Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

Israeli intel minister: Brussels was attacked because of chocolate

Israel Katz says that Belgians enjoy life too much, refuse to decide that they’re in a war with Islamic terrorism. There have been a number of original explanations for why Islamic State militants struck Brussels, killing at least 34 people on Tuesday. Turkish media blamed Belgium’s embrace of the Kurds, a Ukrainian blogger expounded on…

By Dimi Reider March 23, 2016

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