The army issues an administrative detention order again a Palestinian parliamentarian using secret evidence to ‘prove’ some very un-secret allegations. Israel is currently holding over 600 Palestinians without charge or trial. The Israeli army this…
Source: IDF: Secret intel shows Hamas lawmaker is … a member of Hamas | +972 Magazine
Once upon a time you could vote for Netanyahu or Meretz and move on with your life. Today even a conversation about the occupation can end relationships between loved ones. By Su* Like the very…
More than 200 Palestinians have been killed since October.
Source: Palestinian woman shot dead at checkpoint | The Electronic Intifada
The brutal police beating of a young Bedouin man outside his Tel Aviv workplace, where he was working to save money for university tuition, leads hundreds of Israelis to pitch in and pay his tuition.…
Source: Israelis’ heartwarming response to shocking police brutality | +972 Magazine
Israel’s attack on boycott activism is prompting governments, civil society to declare that movement is legitimate
Source: BDS is free speech, says Dutch government | The Electronic Intifada
Like many Palestinian citizens before him, Israeli police insist on holding Maysam Abu Alqian responsible for the beating he took in broad daylight. The beating of 19-year-old Maysam Abu Alqian by plainclothes Border Police officers…
Source: For Israeli police, every Palestinian is guilty until proven innocent | +972 Magazine
Eyewitnesses say Border Police officers attacked an Arab worker in central Tel Aviv after he allegedly refused to show them his identity card. Police: The suspect refused to identify himself and attacked the police officers, biting…
Source: Border Police assault Arab supermarket employee in central Tel Aviv | +972 Magazine
The failure of Israeli liberalism has made the ascent of a far-right and openly racist leader sadly in keeping with the country’s mainstream politics, writes Michael Brull. By the time you read this, Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the right-wing Israeli party Yisrael Beiteinu, may be Israel’s new Defence Minister. In this article, I want toMore
Source: With New Defence Minister, Israel Pivots Further Towards Open Racism – New Matilda
Israel’s Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon has announced his resignation, citing a “lack of faith” in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The move comes after Netanyahu apparently proposed replacing him as part of a move to expand the coalition government. Political sources say the PM offered ultra-nationalist politician Avigdor Lieberman the defence portfolio instead.
Netanyahu’s allies were set for fresh negotiations with representatives of Lieberman’s far-right Yisrael Beitenu party to try to entice it to join the governing co
Source: Israel set to form ‘most right-wing government in history’ – Your Middle East
Despite years of Jewish education, much of which focused on Israel, this young American Zionist was still ignorant of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. By David Sarna Galdi The Israeli occupation of the West…
Jerusalem family’s ordeal reveals how government bends its own laws to facilitate takeovers.
Source: How Israel helps settler groups grab Palestinian land | The Electronic Intifada
Prof. David Shulman won Israel’s most prestigious prize. He’s giving the prize money to one of Israel’s most dedicated — and persecuted — activist groups. Here’s why. I often get comments, specifically from family members,…
Source: WATCH: Israel Prize winner on why he’s giving prize money to Ta’ayush | +972 Magazine
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is often referred to as one of the world’s most intractable. After close to a century of struggle and decades of failed peace-
Source: The battle of narratives in Israel/Palestine – Your Middle East
A recent poll finds that 72 percent of Jewish Israelis believe Israel’s control over the Palestinian territories does not constitute occupation. So what do you call military rule over a captive population that didn’t vote…
Source: Most Israeli Jews think there’s no occupation. So what is it? | +972 Magazine
It turns out that one of Benjamin Netanyahu’s most notoriously divisive statements in recent years reflects, almost identically, an anti-Semitic election slogan exposed and decried by none other than the founding father of right-wing Zionism,…
Source: ‘The Jews are heading to the polls in droves’ | +972 Magazine
Israel started the latest round of deadly violence in Gaza, but you wouldn’t know it from the coverage.
Source: Media promote Israeli distortions as civilians dodge airstrikes in Gaza | The Electronic Intifada
Benjamin Netanyahu lied when he claimed that Israel doesn’t arrest journalists.
Source: Bragging of free press, Israel jails 19 journalists | The Electronic Intifada
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is one of the most sacred places in the world for Christianity. Yet Israel does not officially recognize it as a holy site, a new report reveals.…
Source: ‘Israel only officially recognizes Jewish holy sites’ | +972 Magazine
Deputy IDF Chief of Staff came under a barrage of criticism for saying that trends that prevailed in pre-WWII Europe can be seen in Israel today. But if Israelis took a minute to reflect on…
Source: The deeper meaning of IDF general’s Holocaust comparison | +972 Magazine
The Palestinian member of Knesset Israelis love to hate and the IDF deputy chief of staff make harsh but nearly identical statements invoking 1930s Germany. The statements are received very differently. IDF Deputy Chief of…
Source: Who’s allowed to talk about 1930s Germany? | +972 Magazine
Israel’s justice minister announces a plan to apply Israeli law to parts of the West Bank, or in other words, annexation. By taking an incremental approach, she stands a pretty good chance of succeeding. Success,…
Source: The incremental annexation of Palestine | +972 Magazine
Before the advent of Zionism and Arab nationalism, Jews and Palestinians lived in peace in the holy land. Menachem Klein’s new book maps out an oft-forgotten history of Israel/Palestine, and offers some guidance on how…
Source: Before Zionism: The shared life of Jews and Palestinians | +972 Magazine
I have zero expectations from racist Jews, but I’d expect the Arabs, my own community, to be less judgmental of young people. You have no idea what it’s like to walk down the street fearing…
Source: Israel’s Arab community has nothing but contempt for its young | +972 Magazine
A 24-year-old Palestinian and her teenage brother were shot and killed by Israeli troops after allegedly trying to stab Border Police officers. The police’s version of the events doesn’t add up, but nobody in Israel,…
Source: For most Israelis, Palestinian lives don’t matter | +972 Magazine
False allegations are being used as weapons against Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.
Source: How Israel lobby manufactured UK Labour Party’s anti-Semitism crisis | The Electronic Intifada
Freedom House has downgraded its ranking of Israel’s media from “free” to “partly free,” citing closer ties to the government and a spike in paid media content. But it has one flagrant omission: Israel’s poor…
Source: ‘Partly free’? The real state of Israeli press freedom is much worse | +972 Magazine
Apartheid South Africa tried and failed to use similar efforts to cover up its crimes and deflect pressure.
Source: Israeli propaganda stunt exploits Gaza children | The Electronic Intifada
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On the complex regional chess board, Iran wants better relations with Moscow even as the Russians have extended their intelligence co-operation with Israel in Syria
Source: The tricky triangle of Iran, Russia and Israel | World news | The Guardian
AJ+ | – – “An Israeli soldier was charged with manslaughter for shooting and killing a wounded Palestinian man. Now, …
Netanyahu calls for leniency for soldier filmed executing injured Palestinian.
Source: “Death to the Arabs” rally draws thousands in Tel Aviv | The Electronic Intifada
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The far right wing regime of Binyamin Netanyahu pulled the stunt …
Source: Top 7 Reasons Israel must give back the Occupied Golan to Syria | Informed Comment
The Jerusalem Detainees’ Parents Committee has reported, Sunday, that as the Palestinians mark the Prisoners Day on April 17, at least 509 Jerusalemite Palestinians are imprisoned by Israel, among them are 10 women, and 18 children.|Report: “Israeli Army Kidnapped And Imprisoned 1.000.000 Palest
The Committee to Support Palestinian Journalists said, on Saturday, that Israel had detained 43 journalists in the occupied Palestinian territory since October 2015, including two foreign reporters.The New York-based committee said in a report that during detention and imprisonment, journalists have
Source: » 43 Journalists Kidnapped by Israel since October 2015IMEMC
Poet and activist Dareen Tatour has been charged with incitement to violence based on a poem she posted on Facebook. Its translation by a policeman whose sole competence as a translator is his ‘love for…
Source: Poetic injustice: Palestinian poet arrested over Facebook post | +972 Magazine
Israel has a deep rooted culture of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
Source: Israeli PM Netanyahu Quoted In Full Throated Support of Ethnically Cleansing Palestinians
“Whether he made a mistake or not, is a trivial question,” said an Israeli Jewish man who joined large protests throughout Israel in support of a soldier who calmly, and with precision,…
Source: The Logic of Murder in Israel: A Culture of Impunity in Full View of the Entire World
Military probe into killing of 17-year-old Muhammad al-Kasbeh involved “whitewash,” says human rights group B’Tselem.
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The Right doesn’t reject the concept of universal human rights because it threatens the Zionist project, they do so because it would mean seeing Palestinians as equals. By Dror Etkes There is a positive aspect…
Source: What’s so threatening about human rights? | +972 Magazine
By advancing legislation to exclude the Arab minority from the Knesset, Israel is showing the world that its political system is really only intended for one group. By Marzouq El-Halabi The so-called “suspension bill,” which passed…
Source: On our way out of the apartheid closet | +972 Magazine
Senior army officer testifies to Knesset committee that building enforcement is ‘far more severe against Palestinians’ than Jews. There are over 11,000 Israeli demolition orders pending against Palestinian-owned structures. The Israeli army demolishes Palestinian homes…
Source: IDF admits discriminating against Palestinians in home demolitions | +972 Magazine
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