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Israeli forces arrest one of two knife-wielding Palestinian boys who allegedly attacked a security guard guard at a tramway station in the settler neighbourhood of Pisgat Zeev in annexed east Jerusalem, November 10, 2015. One of the two adolescents, aged 12 to 13, was shot and wounded and the other arrested while the Israeli security guard was wounded and taken to hospital. (Activestills.org)

Would you turn in your own child? The dilemma facing Palestinian parents

A number of Palestinian youngsters have been turned in by their own families in recent weeks, despite the fact that they had not yet committed any crime. Leveraging threats of collective punishment, the state is becoming Big Brother. By Noam Rotem Generations of Soviet children grew up with the story of Pavel Morozov, the…

By +972 Magazine December 8, 2015

Hundreds gather in Tel Aviv to protest Israel's Operation Protective Edge, despite a police decision to revoke the demonstration's permit, Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, July 9, 2014 (photo: Activestills)

How freedom of speech was crushed during Protective Edge

One of the side effects of Operation Protective Edge has been a dramatic narrowing of the political conversation in Israel. The author aggregates all the major incidents during the Gaza War in which freedom of speech in Israel was curtailed, often violently. By Orli Santo An entire spectrum of formerly acceptable left-leaning opinions and sentiments…

By +972 Magazine August 31, 2014