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More than a year ago, my phone, laptop, and small backpack were all I had with me, as Israeli tanks closed in on Gaza City. Every shelling, unpredictable and terrifying, shook the ground beneath us. My phone could barely hold a charge, and the streets around me were filled with corpses and (…)
Conscientious objectors Iddo Elam and Soul Behar Tsalik tell +972 why their wartime draft refusal is a stand for a better future for all in Israel-Palestine.
Iddo Elam (left) and Soul Behar Tsalik (right), before entering prison for refusing mandatory conscription in the Israeli army, November (…)
Eyewitnesses recount the killing of Turkish-American Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi at a protest in Beita, decrying Israel’s efforts to scare off international activists.
Last Friday’s protest in the Palestinian town of Beita began like every week, with residents and activists gathering for noon prayers on (…)
The article, titled ’Jit and Rafah Share the Same Fate,’ was written by a top activist from a right-wing legal aid NGO. It refers to Thursday’s settler attack in the West Bank that killed a 23-year-old Palestinian, and calls for deliberate mass killing
A Palestinian examines a torched (…)
We, the undersigned, Israeli Peace, Civil Society and Human Rights Organizations, call on the Government of Israel to reverse it’s draconian decision to expel eight Norwegian diplomats, which threatens the Norwegian diplomatic mission to the Palestinians.
Over the course of decades, Norway (…)
Conscientious objectors Yuval Moav, Itamar Greenberg, and Oryan Mueller explain why they are willing to go to jail in order to stand against the war.
This week, three 18-year-old conscientious objectors reported to the Israeli army’s Tel Hashomer recruitment center, near Tel Aviv, and declared (…)
Over the past 57 years, Israel has demonstrated it has no intention of ending the occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, but the opposite, working to further entrench it and annex the territory (whether formally or in practice). Military occupation is one element of Israel’s apartheid (…)
The Socialist Organization in Israel – better known by the name of its paper, Matzpen – was founded in 1962 by a group that formed around four members who had been expelled from the Israeli Communist Party (ICP), having challenged the ICP’s lack of internal democracy and its unquestioning (…)
For the second year in a row, twenty-one Israeli organizations have come together to produce a joint report on “The State of the Occupation”.
This report surveys human rights developments in the occupied Palestinian territory over the past year, using the diverse tools and expertise of the (…)
In a context of fear, hatred, and violence, an Israeli-Palestinian gathering that seemed detached from reality actually represented something revolutionary.
At first glance, the Israeli-Palestinian peace conference in Tel Aviv on July 1 appeared detached, almost delusional. And in some ways, (…)
Israeli society will emerge from this war more violent, nationalist, and militaristic than ever. The work of curbing its worst impulses must start now.
“What’s happening to you?” That was the question Yoana Gonen posed, in her recent column for Haaretz, to the so-called “leftists” vowing to (…)
For activists Maoz Inon and Aziz Abu Sarah, reviving a joint peace effort that learns from past obstacles is ‘the biggest antidote to extremism.’
Maoz Inon (left) and Aziz Abu Sarah (right), Israeli and Palestinian peace activists. (Uri Levy)
Maoz Inon and Aziz Abu Sarah are an unlikely (…)
Although she became a lawyer late in life, Tamar Pelleg-Sryck worked tirelessly to defend Palestinian detainees like me in a profoundly unjust system.
Imad Sabi and Tamar Pelleg-Sryck in London. (Courtesy of the author)
To the Palestinians she defended in military courts, she was known (…)
Omdim be’Yachad-Naqef Ma’an, or Standing Together, is a Jewish-Arab social movement in Israel that organises against racism and occupation, and for equality and social justice. Federico Fuentes interviewed Standing Together’s national field organiser Uri Weltmann to discuss the growing peace (…)
I am writing to share with you the news that +972 Magazine has been awarded an honorary title by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) for their “Difference Day,” marking World Press Freedom Day on May 3. The award is a tribute to our continuous drive to (…)
Walid and I shared a political, personal, and philosophical correspondence for two decades. Even in death, he accompanies me on the path of truth.
On the wall in my study hangs a large picture. Swirling silver Arabic letters, delicately drawn on black cloth and decorated with green leaves, (…)
Volunteers in B’Tselem’s camera project in the West Bank. Credit: Helen Yanovsky
We would all know a great deal less about the occupation were it not for B’Tselem. It wouldn’t matter to most Israelis and Israeli media outlets; they refuse to know and to report, but it would matter a lot for (…)
B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories strives for a future in which human rights, liberty and equality are guaranteed to all people, Palestinian and Jewish alike, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Such a future will only (…)
Liberal Israeli sympathy for Palestinians was based on the colonial mindset that the subjugated are inferior and should be grateful for their support
Israeli protesters demonstrate near the Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv on 16 December 2023 (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP)
The Hamas attack of 7 October (…)
Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza.Credit: Mahmoud Essa / AP
Dear friends and former friends: It’s time to sober up from the sobering up.
It was baseless to begin with, but now, nearly half a year after your “eyes were opened,” it’s time to return to reality. It’s time to go back to seeing the (…)
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