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Ben Gvir turns up the heat on Palestinian prisoners
From restricting visitations to demanding the death penalty, the national security minister has begun rolling out his harsher vision for Israeli prisons.
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Baker Zoubi
January 24, 2023
The trip Biden should have taken, but didn’t
What would the president's itinerary look like if he decided to meet with Palestinians, including U.S. citizens, targeted by Israel's policies?
By
Rina Rosenberg (Jabareen)
July 14, 2022
Every Israeli election needs a Palestinian woman as a villain
Attempts to bar Balad MK Heba Yazbak from the election shows how Palestinian women are constantly demonized as embodiments of Israeli fears.
By
Orly Noy
January 21, 2020
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Bid to expel Arab Knesset member an ominous sign of what’s to come
After a year in which the government incited against Arab society and the media pandered to the Right’s agenda, the attempt to expel Joint List MK Basel Ghattas points to a worrying future. By Abed Abu Shehada When the Knesset passed the so-called “expulsion law” last summer, widely seen as targeting Arab lawmakers, many believed…
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Haokets
December 22, 2016
Trump is no more racist than mainstream Israeli policy
Israeli politicians are joining the global pushback against Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim racism. But guess what other country bans Muslim immigration? Just days after Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump announced that he will be visiting Israel by the end of December, the billionaire populist called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United…
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Mairav Zonszein
December 9, 2015
The cynical use of homophobia to attack the Joint List
The Pride Parade has become a litmus test of enlightenment for politicians. But clinging to that symbol is dangerous in that it disconnects the parade from its actual context — the LGBTQ community’s struggle for equal rights. By Inna Michaeli In a video question-and-answer segment produced by Haaretz this week, Arab actress and singer Mira…
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March 12, 2015
No, Arab MKs don’t ‘care too much’ about the occupation
Israel’s Arab politicians are often attacked for ‘dealing too much’ with the Palestinian issue. But if they don’t speak up for a people who lack even the most basic civil rights, who will? One of the most-repeated criticism of Israel’s Palestinian members of Knesset, which always come up around election time, is that they “deal…
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Haggai Matar
March 1, 2015
It’s time to disqualify Israel’s Central Elections Committee
In the run-up to every general election since 2003, Arab parties and candidates have been forced to appear in front of this committee to prove that they deserve to participate in Knesset elections. The only thing worse than the process itself is the racist atmosphere in the meetings. By Salah Mohsen The Central Elections Committee…
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February 16, 2015
What Jewish-Arab ‘progress’ looks like, and why it’s not enough
A new political show on Israel’s largest news channel has a 1:37 ratio of non-Jewish to Jewish guests. It should be no surprise that the normally soft-ball interviewers suddenly became hostile toward MK Ahmad Tibi. By Oren Persico / ‘The 7th Eye‘ Israel’s Channel 2 has a relatively new show titled “Kidon and Ben-Simon,” named after its…
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February 10, 2015
Time to end the delegitimization of Arab Knesset members
Any time the subject of Arab legislators or Arab parties in Israel comes up, someone always feels the tiresome need to mouth off about how horrible Arab members of Knesset are. With crocodile tears, they accuse those MKs of manipulating or forgetting Arab citizens and getting lost in their occupation obsession (a thin guise for…
By
Dahlia Scheindlin
March 14, 2014
Welcome to the era of the single-ethnic party
Inspired by the Israeli Arab parties of Knesset, who will likely be forced to join forces in order to remain politically relevant, Jewish Australian parliamentarians from the left and the right form their own joint party. Just cause they can. [SATIRE] By Sol Salbe In a move that has stunned observers, Australia’s three Jewish MPs…
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March 11, 2014
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