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The Mizrahi communities destroyed by Israel
Since its founding, Israel has systematically erased hundreds of Palestinian villages from the map. But Palestinians were never the only victims. This is the story of the Mizrahi communities erased before and after Israel’s founding. By Eitan Bronstein Aparicio It is well known that since the early days of Zionist immigration to Palestine, the Israeli establishment and…
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December 28, 2017
Israeli Black Panther: Mizrahim must boycott the elections
Since its establishment and until today, not a single election has fundamentally changed the status of Mizrahim in the ‘only democracy in the Middle East.’ Now we must use the only tool we have left at our disposal and refuse to participate in the game altogether. By Reuven Abergel For Palestinian citizens of Israel, the upcoming…
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February 20, 2015
From Gaza to Salameh: A Palestinian refugee’s journey home
A Palestinian refugee from Gaza journey’s to his family’s hometown in present-day Tel Aviv. Standing on what used to be the village cemetery, he feels the ghosts of the past as he must reckon with the currently reality. By Eitan Bronstein Aparicio (translated by Charles Kamen) On International Human Rights Day, he took advantage of his…
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December 14, 2014
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How mainstream Israeli politicians sparked the Tel Aviv race riot
Israeli governments have neglected the poor neighborhoods of Tel Aviv for decades. Today, Knesset members use the asylum seekers to channel the anger of local residents and score easy political points. For a moment, at around 11 p.m., it seemed that things were really getting out of control: Each report from the Hatikva neighborhood in…
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Noam Sheizaf
May 24, 2012
Grave matters: Israel’s mistreatment of Islamic waqf
In the past, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denounced the desecration and vandalism of mosques and Muslim cemeteries. But the destruction of Muslim religious properties in Israel is, in fact, institutionalized and has a long and sometimes shocking history Jewish settlers torched a mosque near Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on December 15.…
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December 20, 2011
A poem for revolutions
In a destroyed Kfar Shalem and the expelling of Jaffa / Mati Shemoelof Listen, Momma: A well-fed white rat Persuaded the inspector To eat along with the builder To feed the politician To bed down with the judge And flatten the people’s history. A big rat, Momma, I swear I saw her nibbling at the…
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January 30, 2011
Remembering a Tel Aviv childhood: when racism was wrong
By Oded Feller After the anti-immigrant demonstration in South Tel Aviv ended, I decided to hang around. I went to the market, walked down Etzel Street, watched the people on the Hagana Road, turned to Yigal Alon, and kept walking as far as Hilhel Avenue. Evening came and the avenue was calm and silent, its…
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January 3, 2011
From the fringes, a new center will emerge (Mati Shemeolof)
The following was translated from the original Hebrew by Dena Shunra. Lisa Goldman response to me in her piece, “Does Israel’s cultural life offer hope for its democracy?”, and raises important points about the discussion of the connection between the cultural and the political. She explains that Tel Aviv is a sort of a bubble.…
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November 18, 2010
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