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Not a new dawn: Why the Israel-Sudan deal was a long time coming
With U.S. backing, Israel has long bribed Khartoum into cooperating on regional policy. Normalization is the latest stage in that history.
By
Yotam Gidron
October 30, 2020
Ad for Israeli maternity ward portrays fetus as future soldier
Militarism begins at conception? An ad for a maternity ward in one of Israel’s top hospitals depicts a fetus wearing a military beret and saluting. An advertisement for a maternity ward in one of Israel’s top hospitals, published in the right-wing newspaper Makor Rishon this past week, has been making the rounds on social media. The…
By
Mairav Zonszein
May 23, 2018
Human Rights Watch sues Israel in first challenge to anti-boycott travel ban
This is the first application of the 2017 amendment to Israel’s entry law in which a foreign national already living and working in Israel has had their work permit revoked for alleged support for BDS. Human Rights Watch and its Israel and Palestine director, U.S. citizen Omar Shakir, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the Israeli government following the Interior Ministry’s decision…
By
Mairav Zonszein
May 16, 2018
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We are all accomplices to Israel’s massacre in Gaza
There has been no outrage. We all let this happen. But it is not too late to speak out. As of writing this, 52 Palestinian unarmed protesters in Gaza have been shot dead by Israeli snipers on Monday, and 2,238 have been wounded, over 1,000 by live ammunition, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Among those killed…
By
Mairav Zonszein
May 14, 2018
Israel denies entry to four American civil rights leaders
The delegation is in Israel and the West Bank to learn about the human rights situation on the ground. Three of the four deported already received their visas, but were taken back in. Four members of an American human rights delegation to Israel and the West Bank, were detained at Ben Gurion Airport, denied entry, and…
By
Mairav Zonszein
May 3, 2018
Police arrest three minors in Bedouin village as expulsion efforts continue
Police arrest three children in ‘unrecognized’ village of Al-Araqib, as the Jewish National Fund continues its forestation project on village land. Two children, 12 and 13, were arrested in the unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Araqib in Israel’s south on Monday, as the Jewish National Fund (JNF) entered the village accompanied by police forces to resume cultivating land for a…
By
Mairav Zonszein
July 19, 2016
IDF spending millions on ‘advertorial’ content in Israeli media
The IDF has spent NIS 28 million on advertising in various media outlets, despite claims to the contrary. By Itamar Bazz The Israel Defense Forces purchased advertorial content in media outlets, according to an investigation by The Seventh Eye. In an interview to radio station “Kol Ha’ayin” last year, IDF Spokesperson Moti Almoz said the…
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The Seventh Eye
May 22, 2016
For most Israelis, Palestinian lives don’t matter
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, including the media, feels the need to ask questions. The facts are still unclear, in fact very unclear: the exact…
By
Mairav Zonszein
April 30, 2016
The only valid parallel between America’s gun problem and Israel
Both countries have a sickness, an addiction of the collective. When something shatters our ceiling of horrible things, you want to think we’ve hit rock bottom. The only shred of hope after a mass shooting is that the slaughter of innocents will finally stun people into seeing how America has gone mad on guns. Maybe…
By
Dahlia Scheindlin
December 8, 2015
Beyond racism: What’s keeping Ethiopian-Israelis down?
Racism is a severe problem for the community — and the country — but that doesn’t fully explain the difficulties faced by Ethiopian-Israelis. To the extent that they were protesting against face-to-face racism from “white” Israelis, the thousands of Ethiopian Israelis who raised hell in Tel Aviv Sunday night had more than a legitimate gripe.…
By
Larry Derfner
May 4, 2015
Israelis’ surrogate mothers in Nepal are no laughing matter
The precarious situation of surrogate mothers in Nepal carrying babies for Israelis, as well as the ethical questions surrounding surrogacy in the developing world, should be treated with the utmost seriousness. But what does Israel’s interior minister do? He laughs at them. Saturday’s horrific earthquake in Nepal has dominated the news here in Israel, not only…
By
Mairav Zonszein
April 30, 2015
Uganda denies agreement with Israel on asylum seekers
The Ugandan government officially denies claims it has signed an agreement with Israel, whereby it would absorb forcefully deported Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers. The Israeli government has resisted calls to divulge the details of the agreements it had allegedly signed with ‘third countries.’ Government officials in Uganda deny there is any agreement with Israel…
By
Mairav Zonszein
April 29, 2015
America’s choice on Iran: Obama’s peace or Netanyahu’s war
If Bibi, the Israel lobby and the GOP stymie this historic nuclear deal, it will be very bad for Israel, America and America’s Jews. Anybody who thinks Obama has won, that Israel and the Israel lobby and the Republicans are just going to concede the Iran nuclear deal without a fight, could not be more…
By
Larry Derfner
April 5, 2015
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