nonviolent struggle

Ayed Morrar, one of the leaders popular struggle in the Palestinian village of Budrus. (Screenshot from the film 'Budrus').

IDF arrests top Palestinian nonviolent activist in overnight raid

Ayed Morrar, who led the village of Budrus in a nonviolent struggle against the separation wall, was arrested alongside his son in an overnight raid. By +972 Magazine Staff Israeli security forces arrested Ayed Morrar, one of the symbols of the Palestinian popular struggle, along with his son, Ahmed, in an overnight raid on the West Bank…

By +972 Magazine April 30, 2018

Abdullah Abu Rahmah in Ofer Military Court, February 8, 2015. (Photo by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Partial win: No jail for Palestinian activist who blocked bulldozer

Abdullah Abu Rahmah is levied a fine and a suspended sentence for standing in front of a bulldozer. ‘I will continue my struggle and my protest, because it is our right,’ he says. In his sentencing hearing, the military prosecution described Abu Rahmah’s nonviolent protest as an ideological crime. By Yael Marom The Israeli army’s Ofer…

By +972 Magazine February 23, 2015

Abdullah Abu Rahmah in Ofer Military Court, February 8, 2015. (Photo by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

IDF: Palestinian nonviolent protest is an ideological crime

Abdullah Abu Rahmah has a sentencing hearing in military court after being convicted of standing in front of an IDF bulldozer. The nonviolent protest organizer from Bil’in who already served more than a year in prison has been declared a ‘human rights defender’ by the European Union. By Yael Marom Diplomats from the European Union,…

By +972 Magazine February 9, 2015

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A Palestinian youth places a flag on the Israeli wall during a protest marking nine years of struggle against the wall in the West Bank village of Bilin, February 28, 2014. (Photo by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Goodbye status quo: Israel’s impending moment of truth

There are no guarantees that the near future will herald freedom for Israel/Palestine. It will, however, shatter the perception of comfort that has paralyzed Israel since the beginning of the millennium. By Ran Greenstein When we look at the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a curious pattern can be detected. Every 20 or 30 years…

By +972 Magazine November 21, 2014

Palestinian construction workers in an Israeli settlement (Photo by Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

Major Israeli construction company pulls out of settlement industry

Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported Monday morning that Africa Israel Investments, an international holding and investment company based in Israel, will no longer build homes in the West Bank or East Jerusalem. This, after years that Africa Israel’s daughter company, Danya Cebus, has consistently built homes in settlements, contrary to international law. There is no mistaking this decision. Lev Leviev, one…

By Haggai Matar October 27, 2014

A Palestinian uses a slingshot to throw rocks at Israeli forces in Shuafat refugee camp. Clashes erupted after the body of a Palestinian teenager was found in a Jerusalem forest. (photo: Activestills.org)

Why this isn’t a ‘new’ intifada

What we’re seeing today is not a new intifada, but an ever-more sophisticated version of the one Palestinians have been fighting all along. In a pre-interview with a television news producer yesterday, I found myself stammering over a familiar question: as a Palestinian, do you have any hope for the future? Steeped in the day-to-day of…

By Samer Badawi July 3, 2014

Can nonviolence move the next century?

By Todd Gitlin I just returned to New York after visiting Belgrade, where I interviewed (among others) Srdja Popovic, a leader of the nonviolent Otpor movement that overthrew Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, and now a lively, witty, imaginative advocate for nonviolent struggle against dictatorships everywhere. There’s a fine narrative of Otpor’s progress, and Srdja’s approach to…

By +972 Magazine June 7, 2011