Israeli occupation

Screening of ‘No Other Land’ in At-Tuwani, Masafer Yatta, occupied West Bank, March 14, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

In Masafer Yatta, our camera can be stronger than the bulldozer

At a screening in At-Tuwani, we realized our film isn’t just sharing our story with the world, but showing our people how we are fighting for change.

By Hamdan Ballal Al-Huraini March 29, 2024

Edo Konrad. (Oren Ziv)

My last letter: Speak the words we were taught to fear

+972’s outgoing editor-in-chief reflects on the changes to the site and on the ground during his tenure, and calls for courage to confront reality head-on.

By Edo Konrad September 15, 2023

Israeli teenagers sign their names onto a letter declaring their refusal to enlist in the army and serve a dictatorship in Israel or the occupied Palestinian territories, Gimnasia Herzliya, Tel Aviv, September 3, 2023. (Oren Ziv)

A lesson on Israeli ‘democracy’ from an 18-year-old draft refuser

Previous generations of Israelis closed their eyes to the oppression of Palestinians, Mizrahim, and asylum seekers. Our generation can be different.

By Yahli Agai September 5, 2023

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Israeli activists hold a protest in Tel Aviv against Israeli military rule over Palestinians in the West Bank, September 23, 2021. (Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

How this government will turn its Jewish critics into dissidents

The transformation of Israeli leftists into dissidents is a reminder that no one is safe from the attempts to turn the 'wrong kind' of Jews into enemies.

By Edo Konrad December 16, 2022

Matzpen co-founder Moshé Machover, London, July 11, 2008. (Hossam el-Hamalawy/CC BY 2.0)

The last first Israeli anti-Zionist

Sixty years after co-founding the radical leftist group Matzpen, Moshé Machover reflects on the organization’s enduring legacy, the internal splits that led to its demise, and its lessons for today's anti-Zionist left.

By Ben Reiff November 24, 2022

Conscientious objector Shahar Schwartz, 18, before entering military prison for his refusal to serve in the Israeli army. (Oren Ziv)

Israel jails conscientious objector for 10 days over his refusal to enlist

18-year-old Shahar Schwartz was sentenced after telling the military's conscientious objectors committee that he will not serve in an occupying army.

By Oren Ziv August 19, 2022

A Palestinian boy on a donkey looks at Israeli army vehicles as they park during an Israeli military training in the northern Jordan valley, West Bank, on December 8, 2016. (Keren Manor/Activestills)

Classified document reveals IDF ‘firing zones’ built to give land to settlers

In a top-secret meeting held in 1979, revealed here for the first time, then-Agricultural Minister Ariel Sharon explained that firing zones were meant to create 'land reserves' for settlements, as part of his larger plan of establishing 'ethnic borders' between Jews and Palestinians.

By Yuval Abraham July 11, 2022

Israeli soldiers aim their weapons at Palestinian protesters, Qalandiya checkpoint, West Bank, July 23, 2017. (Oren Ziv)

An Israeli bullet killed Shireen. Denial is the army’s time-tested strategy

Israel's attempts to deny responsibility for Abu Akleh's death is part of its long-standing policy of obfuscating investigations into Palestinian killings.

By Sebastian Ben Daniel (John Brown) July 5, 2022

Wounded Palestinian protesters are treated at Al-Awda Hospital after the Israeli navy used live fire and tear gas to block protesters on a 36-vessel flotilla that set out from the northern Gaza Strip, Gaza City, September 24, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Top health expert: WHO committing ‘statistical genocide’ against Palestinians

Richard Horton accuses the World Health Organization of 'deliberately eliminating' Palestinians under occupation from one of its major reports.

By Yonit Mozes June 30, 2022

Rachel Beitarie, Executive Director of the left-wing Israeli NGO Zochrot, sits in front of the Jaffa Clock Tower. Around 95% of Jaffa's Palestinian population fled or were expelled during the Nakba. (Oren Ziv)

The Israeli left has broken the Nakba taboo. Will the right of return be next?

The past year has seen many left-wing Israeli groups looking beyond the occupation to confront the legacies of 1948, but they remain divided over redressing the exile of Palestinian refugees through return.

By Ben Reiff June 23, 2022

An Israeli soldier points his weapon at a Palestinian man during a protest in Hebron, occupied West Bank, April 22, 2022. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

‘Same agenda, just more subtle’: Bennett-Lapid government’s first year in numbers

New figures show surge in killings of West Bank Palestinians and no drop in demolitions during the first 12 months of the ‘government of change.’

By Oren Ziv June 19, 2022

Left-wing Israeli activists gather for a photo in front of a bulldozer ahead of a protest organized by Peace Now against the Homesh outpost, May 28, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

Israel’s peace camp is taking up bulldozers to fight the occupation

A demo against a settler outpost shows how Israeli activists are increasingly adopting radical direct action following the anti-Netanyahu protests.

By Oren Ziv and Haggai Matar June 1, 2022

British soldiers clear an improvised roadblock during the Arab Revolt. (Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi archives)

The imperial roots of ‘shrinking the conflict’

Long before Israel paved segregated road networks to maintain the separation of Jews and Palestinians, the British had already laid their foundations.

By Shira Pinhas May 17, 2022