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Traveling the world as a Palestinian on an Israeli passport
When I traveled to Morocco last year, I was escorted from the airport by security — for my protection, because of my Israeli passport — and greeted with ‘Shabbat Shalom.’ When I told the airport official ‘thank you, but I am not Jewish,’ he responded, ‘it does not matter.’ By Anwar Mhajne At home, we…
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October 22, 2018
When Israel planned ‘fantasy’ tours to Arab villages under martial law
New documents reveal how Israel’s leaders prepared to celebrate the country’s 10-year anniversary: by bringing tourists to participate in orientalist ‘fantasy’ tours to Arab villages, then under military rule. If you’re a young Jewish person, chances are you or someone you know has gone on a Birthright trip. If you have gone on Birthright, chances are…
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Edo Konrad
July 23, 2018
No institution is safe from the corrupting power of occupation
The persecution of Breaking the Silence’s spokesperson is further proof that the state’s investigative bodies are not only deeply politicized, they are simply uninterested in doing their job. Between the years 2013 and 2016, Israeli anti-occupation group Yesh Din tracked the police’s response to 289 cases of “ideological crimes” against Palestinians in the West Bank. In each of those…
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Noam Sheizaf
November 20, 2017
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For Palestinian citizens, Israel was and remains a Shin Bet state
Israel’s military rule over its Palestinian citizens may have ended in 1966, but the long arm of the Shin Bet and the police continues to meddle in our private affairs. I know from personal experience. By Yaser Abu Areesha “What did you do?!” yelled my mother, God rest her soul, with a mix of fear and…
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December 1, 2016
A once-in-a-decade show trial
The military trial of Elor Azaria is part of a purification ritual, one that takes place every 10 years, as if everything in between is just fine. By Hagai El-Ad Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman was quoted last month as saying that, “we can’t reach a situation in which a soldier has to ask for…
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September 7, 2016
Stop fantasizing about a coup in Israel
As the images of the attempted coup in Turkey flooded the media, some in the Israeli Left began fantasizing about our own version of a military takeover. Along with millions of others across the world, I closely followed the coup attempt in Turkey over the past weekend. Rather than being glued to the television, we…
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Orly Noy
July 17, 2016
The only way to ensure Palestinian lives matter
The IDF’s decision not to charge Abed Fatah al-Sharif’s killer with murder should not surprise anybody — it is entirely consistent with the impunity Israeli security personnel have enjoyed for decades when it comes to killing Palestinians. The Israeli army’s Military Advocate General on Thursday announced that it will not seek murder charges against a…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
March 31, 2016
Time to break the silence: An open letter to American Jews
The American Jewish establishment, from the Federations to synagogues, must take a look in the mirror and decide whether this is the Israel it identifies with. If it isn’t, it should speak up. Urgently. Dear American Jewish community, I should start off with a full disclosure: I am only tangentially a part of you. I have…
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Edo Konrad
January 14, 2016
Hebron’s Palestinians need hope, not military rule
Nearly 50 years after the occupation of Hebron, Israel still hasn’t figured out how to stop Palestinian violence. If you have been attuned to the internal Israeli conversation over the past few days, you’ll have noticed that the drums of war are beating once again. In a piece published Friday, Haaretz’s military and defense expert…
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Edo Konrad
November 27, 2015
The ‘new Zionism’ is turning Negev Bedouin into a myth
As the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran prepares to be replaced by a Jewish town with a near-identical name, its residents are offering solutions based on real co-existence. By Ariel Dloomy In July 2007 I witnessed one of the saddest events of my life. Hundreds of security force personnel descended upon the Bedouin village of…
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June 26, 2015
Fighting occupation must not blind us from remembering the Nakba
A solution to the problem of the occupation will be worthless if we do not gain the courage to take apart the human food chain that has become entrenched in this land since 1948. On Sunday night, I spoke at the annual protest march — this time in Jerusalem, rather than Tel Aviv where it…
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Orly Noy
May 31, 2015
Judge: Equality in the West Bank, just not for Palestinians
A Jerusalem judge acquits an Israeli man who broke through an West Bank checkpoint into Palestinian-controlled territory, ruling that it’s unacceptable for an Israeli citizen to be discriminated against by virtue of his religion. (Arab — but not Jewish — citizens of Israel are allowed to enter ‘Area A’.) But the ruling means nothing for…
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December 29, 2014
Negev Bedouin are now demolishing their own homes out of despair
After losing a lengthy legal battle against the state, residents of the unrecognized Bedouin village Sawa decided that demolishing their own homes is preferable to seeing the authorities do it. By Michal Rotem On Tuesday of last week, the residents of Sawa, an unrecognized Bedouin village in the Negev Desert, used their own money to…
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December 26, 2014
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