Huwara

Palestinians asses the damage after settlers burned cars and damaged property in the West Bank village of Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya, June 21, 2023. (Oren Ziv)

Palestinians pick up the pieces after settler pogrom in West Bank village

Residents say police and army protected settlers as they rampaged in Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya following a lethal attack in a nearby settlement.

By Oren Ziv June 21, 2023

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during a vote in Knesset, Jerusalem, March 22, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The Israeli right’s arrogance has made a new struggle possible

The mass protests have opened the possibility, however slight, that Israelis will begin to demand fundamental changes we haven't seen since 1948.

By Meron Rapoport March 29, 2023

Activists from the Mizrahi left group Shovrot Kirot and the Kan2Come collective block Tel Aviv's Ayalon Highway during the anti-government protests, March 26, 2023. (Keren Manor/Activestills.org)

The dilemmas of the Mizrahi left in the Israeli protest movement

Prof. Smadar Lavie discusses the possibilities and contradictions of the Ashkenazi-dominated protests against the government, and traces the efforts of a small cohort of Mizrahi activists to make their voices heard.

By Shane Burley and Ben Lorber March 28, 2023

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, March 20, 2023. (Marmor/Flash90)

Israel’s economy was Netanyahu’s crown jewel. Can apartheid survive without it?

The prime minister did not foresee that the judicial coup would undermine one of the core elements protecting Israel's apartheid regime.

By Nimrod Flaschenberg March 27, 2023

Israeli anti-government protesters hold up a sign in solidarity with Huwara following the pogrom on the town, Tel Aviv, March 5, 2023. (Oren Ziv)

Israeli protesters chanted for Huwara. Why not for Nablus?

The selective outrage over settler attacks renders only some Palestinians worthy of sympathy, legitimizing a far more dominant form of violence.

By Dan Owen March 12, 2023

Bezalel Smotrich, February 6, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The danger of treating Smotrich as an anomaly

By marking one Israeli politician as unacceptable, U.S. Jews are sidestepping the need to reckon with the wider system that enables his genocidal views.

By Edo Konrad March 9, 2023

Israeli settlers take part in the annual Purim parade in Hebron, March 7, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Reclaiming Purim from the supremacists

This Purim, we must celebrate not by clinging to a 'self defense' of war and apartheid, but by envisioning a world based on support and interdependence.

By Lexie Botzum March 7, 2023

Children in the West Bank village of Za'atra sit in front of a poster commemorating Sameh Aqtesh, who was killed by gunfire during the Huwara pogrom, March 3, 2023. (Oren Ziv)

‘I couldn’t see if my brother’s murderer was a soldier or settler’

Footage obtained by +972 shows Sameh Aqtesh was shot dead during a settler attack accompanied by the Israeli army on the night of the Huwara pogrom.

By Oren Ziv and Yuval Abraham March 5, 2023

Sven Kuhn von Burgsdorff, head of the European Union’s mission to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, visits Huwara in the occupied West Bank following the settler pogrom in the town earlier in the week, March 3, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

How not to show solidarity with the families of Huwara

Thousands donated to a crowdfunder set up by an Israeli politician. But its militaristic framing and implementation are likely to do more harm than good.

By Orly Noy March 3, 2023

Left-wing activists demonstrate in central Tel Aviv following Huwara pogrom, February 27, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

This government’s pyromania may be its downfall

Huwara on fire is exactly what leading Israeli ministers wanted. But with the protest movement taking note, the next phase of their plan is no guarantee.

By Meron Rapoport March 3, 2023

Palestinian residents of Huwara walk among their burned homes, cars, and businesses the morning after Israeli settlers rampaged through their town in the West Bank, Feb. 27, 2023. (Oren Ziv)

‘They were burning our house with kids inside. The army didn’t let us through’

Children trapped by settlers. A mutilated pet. Checkpoints blocking aid. A Palestinian family recounts the horrifying night of the Huwara pogrom.

By Yuval Abraham March 2, 2023

Nawal Domedi looks at the entrance to her house after it had been burned in a settler pogrom in the Palestinian town of Huwara, West Bank, February 28, 2023. (Oren Ziv)

Why there are no two sides to the Huwara pogrom

Huwara is not a story of 'two sides fighting each other.' It's the story of a regional superpower that tramples over millions of disenfranchised people.

By Haggai Matar March 2, 2023

Palestinian residents of Huwara walk among their burned homes, cars, and businesses the morning after Israeli settlers rampaged through their town in the West Bank, Feb. 27, 2023. (Oren Ziv)

The pogrom is the point

When Israeli officials call on settlers not to take the law into their own hands against Palestinians, they are actually saying 'let the army do the job for you.'

By Orly Noy February 27, 2023