Judea and Samaria

Screenshot from COGAT's new tourism campaign.

The IDF’s new ‘Visit Palestine’ campaign refuses to say Palestine

The Israeli army’s new tourism campaign wants you to visit Palestine — just don’t call it that. The Israeli military launched a truly bizarre rendition of a Visit Palestine tourism campaign over the weekend. Except the army couldn’t bring itself to say Palestine, the West Bank, or even mention that Palestinians live there. The video was…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man December 4, 2016

Former settler council leader Dany Dayan at the Herzliya Conference, March 12, 2013 (Photo: Herzliya Conference PR)

From the West Bank to NYC: Challenge Dani Dayan wherever he goes

Now that settler leader Dani Dayan has been appointed as Israel’s consul general in New York, will Jewish leaders wake up and realize that the Israeli government supports indefinite occupation over freedom for all? By Yonah Lieberman In 1963, Bull Connor became an international symbol of racism and white supremacy. A year earlier, as commissioner…

By +972 Magazine March 31, 2016

Bulldozers in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc. (flickr / ☪yrl CC BY-NC 2.0)

Survey: Israeli Jews tolerate settlements, status quo

A new survey released by Ariel-which-is-now-known-as-a-University, shows, remarkably, that the majority of Israeli Jews inside the Green Line are still basically wedded to settlements and barely register that they pose a problem. -A 52 percent absolute majority agrees that settlements are “a true Zionist act,” twice as many those who disagree (26 percent). The remainder,…

By Dahlia Scheindlin June 13, 2013

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Google Street View car in the Settlement of Elkana, The West Bank

Google Street View to feature West Bank settlements

Google Street View was launched in Israel last April, after a long battle with the Defense Ministry over the blurring of military facilities located in the Israeli cities. Lately, Google cars have been spotted in West Bank settlements as well. Here is a picture taken in Elkana, located in the western part of the Samarian hills near…

By Noam Sheizaf September 27, 2012

Israel Police claims unable to enforce law on West Bank settlers

The head of Israel Police’s West Bank division claims that he is incapable of indicting settlers in the West Bank. His reason? The location. The IDF issued temporary eviction orders on Thursday to 12 Jewish residents of the West Bank accused of planning attacks against Palestinians and the IDF. The eviction orders range from anywhere between…

By Mairav Zonszein January 6, 2012

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Army Radio instructed to call West Bank by biblical ‘Judea and Samaria’

According to a report in Israel National News, the commander of Israel Army Radio, the national radio station in Israel operated by the Israel Defense Forces, has determined that all the station’s reporters should refer to the West Bank as “Judea and Samaria.” The report states the decision was made as a result of complaints…

By Mairav Zonszein December 25, 2011

Breaking the Silence marketing tours to Birthrighters

Breaking the Silence — the organization of former IDF soldiers who talk about their experiences serving in the Occupied Territories in an effort to expose the everyday reality of Israeli control of the West Bank — is now marketing its tours of the West Bank to participants of the Birthright-Israel trip while here in Israel.…

By Mairav Zonszein July 10, 2011