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IDF Deputy Chief of General Staff Yair Golan, February 24, 2016, cropped. (Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv)
The deeper meaning of IDF general’s Holocaust comparison
The deputy IDF chief of staff came under a barrage of criticism for saying trends that prevailed in pre-WWII Europe can be seen in Israel today. But if Israelis took a minute to reflect on his comments, they would realize that they were more solemn than slanderous. Headlines in Israel are blaring this Holocaust Day…
By Dahlia Scheindlin May 5, 2016
The Knesset floor. (Photo: Itzik Edri/CC)
The agonies of being an Arab democrat in the Knesset
When establishing the Knesset’s Palestinian democratic party, the founders of Balad had to shift their discourse and terminology: from the liberation of Palestine and the establishment of one inclusive democratic state, to the reinvention of Israel as a democratic state, the party’s secretary general writes. But has such a shift paid off? By Awad Abdelfattah On…
By +972 Magazine June 29, 2014
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