Dimi Reider

Dimi (Dmitry) Reider is an Israeli journalist. His work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times,The Guardian, Foreign Policy, Haaretz, Jerusalem Post, and Index on Censorship. “Dimi’s Notes” has been quoted and referenced by the following publications:

Recent Articles

America’s long history of tolerating Israel’s illegal expansion

The United States has never treated Israeli settlements as illegal, with expansion moving ahead with little resistance from Washington. Still, Pompeo’s recent declaration will likely become the new normal.

By Dimi Reider November 20, 2019

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at an 'emergency' Likud rally in Tel Aviv, November 17, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

By labeling Arabs an ‘existential threat,’ Bibi invokes a terrifying history of ethnic violence

The prime minister organized an emergency Likud gathering Sunday night, in which he accused Israel’s Arab citizens of supporting terror and wanting to destroy the State of Israel. We know how this kind of thing can end. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a bitter struggle to prevent his challenger from establishing a government with support from the Arab-led Joint List party, has…

By Amjad Iraqi, Cafe Gibraltar and Dimi Reider November 18, 2019

Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) upon her release from an Israeli prison, at a checkpoint near the West Bank town of Tulkarem, June 3, 2016. (Haytham Shtayeh/Flash90)

Israeli army arrests Palestinian feminist lawmaker, months after her release

Khalida Jarrar was last released from Israeli custody in February, where she was held for 20 months without charge or trial. By Jaclynn Ashly Dozens of Israeli soldiers arrested Khalida Jarrar, a prominent Palestinian left-wing lawmaker and activist, after raiding her home in central Ramallah city in the occupied West Bank overnight on Thursday. Suha Ghassan, Jarrar’s…

By +972 Magazine, Ami Kaufman and Dimi Reider November 1, 2019

Holocaust shirt Exeter University

Anti-Semitic, white supremacist slogans at Exeter University event

Even the most off-hand displays of white supremacism and anti-Semitism — perhaps especially off-hand, “normalized” displays — are not only deplorable in their own right, but directly affect conversation on racism, anti-Semitism and Israel-Palestine. Students attending an off-campus Exeter University party on Tuesday were seen sporting t-shirts with anti-Semitic and white supremacist slogans, +972 has learned. Reports of…

By Dimi Reider September 21, 2016

Ehud Barak speaks at Haaretz's Israel Conference for Peace at the David InterContinental hotel in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. (Flash90)

Don’t call it a comeback: Really, please don’t come back

Ehud Barak isn’t the ‘only hope’ to defeat Netanyahu. He is, however, the most dangerous prime minister Israel has ever had. It seems Ehud Barak is planning a return to politics: posters have appeared calling on him to “run” (where exactly is unclear), and now even Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy reluctantly voiced the opinion that…

By Dimi Reider September 8, 2016

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during a Yisrael Beitenu meeting at the Knesset, May 23, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

By flexing his muscles, Liberman gives Gaza’s radicals a boost

This week’s air strikes allowed Defense Minister Liberman to demonstrate to the Israeli public that not even the smallest violation of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas will be tolerated. The Israeli air raids on Gaza overnight Sunday were the largest in scope and impact since the 2014 war. This was enough to set tongues wagging about the…

By Dimi Reider August 24, 2016

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud minister Israel Katz at a campaign event in Raanana. (Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

Israeli intel minister: Brussels was attacked because of chocolate

Israel Katz says that Belgians enjoy life too much, refuse to decide that they’re in a war with Islamic terrorism. There have been a number of original explanations for why Islamic State militants struck Brussels, killing at least 34 people on Tuesday. Turkish media blamed Belgium’s embrace of the Kurds, a Ukrainian blogger expounded on…

By Dimi Reider March 23, 2016

File photo of former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert in court. (Photo by Activestills.org)

Why Israel’s former prime minister is going to prison (and why he’s not)

Ehud Olmert this week became Israel’s first former prime minister to head to prison. Here is a simple explanation of why, what legal troubles still await him, and the crimes for which he’ll never pay. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is going to jail — albeit only for 18 months. The Supreme Court shortened…

By Dimi Reider December 30, 2015

Yossi Sarid at a Sheikh Jarrah solidarity protest, January 22, 2010. (Photo by Lisa Goldman)

Yossi Sarid: Conservative innovator of the Israeli Left

One of the first Israeli politicians to champion the two-state solution, Yossi Sarid was also one of the last vestiges of the Israeli Left’s old guard. He will be remembered warmly for never turning away a person in need, but also for his contentious attitudes toward religious and Mizrahi Jews. For better or worse, there…

By Dimi Reider December 9, 2015

Yair Lapid (Photo by Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

Yair Lapid on Hillary handshake: ‘I met my buddy’s wife…’

Israel’s Mr. Liberal went to the Saban Forum in Washington D.C. and met this woman he’s seen somewhere, a lawyer maybe? Bill’s wife, you guys know Bill. Yair Lapid, leader of the third largest party in the opposition (a far cry from his briefly held title of the great white hope of Israeli moderates, way…

By Dimi Reider December 7, 2015