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The author, Oren Ziv, sending off photos after a police raid in Khan al-Ahmar on October 15, 2018. (Ahmad Al Bazz/Activestills.org)

In Khan al-Ahmar, I found renewed hope for resisting the occupation

Over the last four months I have spent most of my time in Khan al-Ahmar, watching young Palestinians resist, day after day, the Israeli authorities’ attempts to demolish the village. On Saturday night, their struggle finally bore fruit. Ever since Israel’s High Court of Justice gave its stamp of approval for the Israeli army to demolish Khan…

By Oren Ziv October 21, 2018

Israeli security forces detain a Palestinian protester in Nabi Elias, where dozens of Palestinians and several Israelis protested against plans to expropriate agricultural land to build a settler-only bypass road. (Ahmad al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

WATCH: Soldiers prevent Palestinians, Israelis from protesting together

Israeli activists had hoped to join Palestinians to protest a new settler-only road that would uproot hundreds of olive trees. The Israeli army saw to that. By Ahmad al-Bazz and Haggai Matar, Photos by Ahmad al-Bazz and Keren Manor / Activestills.org The Israeli army prevented dozens of Palestinians and Israelis from protesting together against the expropriation…

By Activestills January 7, 2017

Israelis and Palestinians march toward the 'tunnels checkpoint' in the West Bank, in a joint demonstration against the occupation, February 5, 2016. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

WATCH: Israelis and Palestinians join hands to say no to occupation

For the third time in the past two months, Israeli and Palestinian activists march on West Bank checkpoint to call for an end to the ongoing violence. Photos and text by Oren Ziv / Activestills.org Over 200 Israelis and Palestinians marched on the Israeli army’s “tunnels checkpoint” south of Jerusalem Friday to demonstrate against the…

By Activestills February 6, 2016

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A demonstration commemorating Land Day, Jaffa, March 30, 2014. (Photo: Keren Manor/ActiveStills.org)

The Jewish-Israeli Left can participate in the Palestinian struggle, but not as a partner

Israeli Leftists want the 1.5 million Palestinians who live in this country to become an integral part of this Israeli society. But they see their fellow Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank belonging to a different country. A Palestinian man and a Jewish woman are both participants at a Jaffa protest rally. The Palestinian…

By Rami Younis June 23, 2014

MK Ibrahim Zarzur (center) and MK Ahmad Tibi (photo: Yotam Ronen / activestills.org)

To fight anti-democratic legislation, Palestinian citizens must unite

As Israel’s right wing escalates its attempts at silencing Israel’s Palestinian minority, Ran Greenstein offers the Arab street an alternative approach at fighting back. By Ran Greenstein “At the end of every sentence you say in Hebrew there’s an Arab with a hookah” (Meir Ariel, a Song of Pain) There is no Israeli politician, past…

By +972 Magazine March 13, 2014

C2 – PL Linch by Roi Shapira

Anti-occupation activists aim to fund legal defense in art sale

Art exhibition and sale in Tel Aviv — and online — will try to cover the legal expenses of Israeli and Palestinian activists arrested for their protests against the wall, settlements, military campaigns and all systems of occupation and Apartheid. A great opportunity to support a great cause. Over the past decade or so the popular,…

By Haggai Matar August 21, 2013

Arab-Jewish partnership (Lisa Goldman)

On anti-normalization, dialogue and activism

“Thanks, this was the most awful thing I have read in a long time. Going into fetus position.” This was the reply I got on Twitter from a friend after posting the Facebook anti-normalization debate yesterday. The exchange between Palestinians from Jordan and Israeli activists was unpleasant for me to read as well. I posted…

By Noam Sheizaf September 10, 2012

Thoughts on a joint but unequal Palestinian-Israeli struggle

Israeli activists have joined Palestinians in demonstrations throughout the West Bank for a decade, in what some have come to bill a ‘joint struggle.’ But the apparent disparity between the daily realities of Israelis and Palestinians beckons the question: What is the role of Israelis in the Palestinian struggle for liberation? By Noa Shaindlinger Since 2003,…

By +972 Magazine June 23, 2012

Bil'in Wall (Activestills)

Hundreds attend Bil’in’s 7th annual day of struggle against the Wall

Israeli police and army mount a massive operation to stop Israelis from reaching the special Friday protest, marking seven years of popular and joint struggle in Bil’in In the beginning there were engineers, soldiers and bulldozers. It was after the International Court of Law in The Hague had already barred construction of The Separation Wall…

By Haggai Matar February 17, 2012

J14 and the rift between Israeli and international activists

Former allies in fight against occupation are battling over the meaning of the tent protest. Can the relationship be rescued, and should it be? The tent protest, also known as J14, already had an effect on many groups in Israeli society, forcing them to re-examine their political positions and alliances. And while we have yet…

By Noam Sheizaf August 30, 2011

Most important Jewish anti-occupation group needs your support

Facing mounting legal costs, Anarchists against the Wall have issued an urgent plea for donations. This is why I think we should support them Anarchists Against The Wall is, at least in my opinion, the most important progressive political group to operate in Israel in the last decade. It’s hard to note in a short…

By Noam Sheizaf June 26, 2011

WATCH: Private Israeli security guard attacks protesters with live fire

Israeli private security opens live fire on unarmed Israeli and Palestinians demonstrators. Army arrives and throws tear gas on the demonstrators. This morning, roughly 40 unarmed Palestinians among with four Israelis, held a demonstration at an illegal Israeli quarry built on the land of the villages of Ni’ilin and Budrus. As the demonstrators approached the quarry they could see an Israeli…

By Joseph Dana June 4, 2011

In this struggle for liberation, is ‘solidarity’ the right word?

From the standpoint of joint Palestinian-Israeli struggle, this Friday’s ‘solidarity Sheikh Jarrah’ gathering in Tel Aviv raises important questions about the direction of the Sheikh Jarrah movement and especially the use of the term ‘solidarity’. The movement is moving to the center of Israeli political protest and away from the joint character of the struggle which…

By Joseph Dana September 21, 2010