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Israeli Policies in East Jerusalem Are Harming Palestinian Women
Independence Day celebrations took place this year in the shadow of the threat of the government’s planned judicial shakeup and deep concern for the future of human and civil rights in Israel.
Theater as politics: an interview with Einat Weizman
Jonathan Ofir interviews Israeli playwright Einat Weizman about her play ‘Prisoners of the Occupation’ and how theater can become a vehicle for political mobilization and change.
Columbia University to open learning center in Israel amid faculty backlash
Columbia University’s plans to open a learning center in Israel is being criticized by faculty members.
Trash Israel’s Regime-approved Civics Textbook
The right has put control over civics classes at the top of its agenda over the past decade. The religious and extreme nationalist right homed in on civics lessons as the main vehicle for changing the minds of generations of students and future voters. The subject, which is meant to serve as a foundation for democratic life, has been gutted and neutered in a gradual, methodical process intended mainly to satisfy the regime.
Israel’s One-State Reality
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s return to power in Israel with a narrow, extreme right-wing coalition has shattered even the illusion of a two-state solution. Members of his new government have….
Israeli Soldiers Vandalize Disabled Palestinian Woman’s Car
The army claims that the soldiers had intelligence that a weapon belonging to a wanted man was stored in the car, and only broke into it after the father refused to give them the keys. The father, however, says the soldiers did not contact him beforehand, and hit him after he tried to stop them from damaging the car which is used to transport his disabled daughter
Israeli forces shoot, kill 17-year-old Palestinian boy near Jericho
17-year-old Mohammad Fayez Mohammad Awadat (Bilhan) is the 18th Palestinian child killed by Israeli forces in 2023, according to evidence collected by DCIP. (Photo: Courtesy of the Awadat family)
My family survived the Deir Yassin massacre. 75 years later, we still demand justice.
On this day 75 years ago, my grandmother and her family survived the Deir Yassin Massacre in 1948. I inherited my family’s memories, the scars that come with them, and the duty never to forget.
How the ‘Poor People of Galicia’ Defeated an Elderly Palestinian Couple
Nura Gheith Sub Laban has lived in the same home in the Muslim Quarter since she was born. From 1967, she’s been on a Kafkaesque journey paved with lawsuits and harassment with only one goal: to kick her out