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‘Local Call’ wins award for social change
Local Call wins NIS 25,000 for its persistent coverage of the joint feminist struggle between Arab and Jewish women against gender violence. By +972 Magazine Hebrew-language site Local Call won the Dror Prize for social change, along with a NIS 25,000 cash prize, on Friday, for spotlighting the joint struggle between Jewish and Arab women…
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December 1, 2017
The ‘Jewish tent’ just became even smaller
The defunding of an Israel program with a progressive, human rights framework is an affront to all progressive Jews around the world. By Rebecca Arian Last week, the Jewish Agency announced it would be cutting funding to Achvat Amim (“Solidarity of Nations”), a program offering participants the opportunity to live in Israel and volunteer with organizations…
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September 25, 2017
50 reasons to resist the occupation in its 50th year
Fifty reasons to join a growing coalition united in creating a more just future in the region, in order to make the 50th year of the occupation its last. By Talia Krevsky and Isaac Kates Rose 1. January 1: The onset of the 50th year of violating the Fourth Geneva Convention through Israel’s military occupation over…
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March 30, 2017
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Can America avoid falling into the Israel trap?
If Israel can teach American liberals anything, it’s that they cannot afford to rest on their laurels. The case of Israel demonstrates that fear-mongering and tribalism can easily prop up an oppressive and racist regime for decades. It is not uncommon for Israeli authorities to detain, interrogate and deport tourists of Arab or Palestinian descent,…
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Noa Yachot
February 9, 2017
Welcome to Netanyahu’s Westworld
Israelis have a choice: they can either oppose the occupation or watch the Right turn their country into a sadistic theme park. By Alon Mizrahi ‘Westworld’ is a new science fiction television show that revolves around a futuristic amusement park populated by androids. Westworld caters to high-paying guests who can do whatever they wish within…
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December 11, 2016
Israel’s ’50 most influential women’ — not a single Arab
Israel’s leading economic paper couldn’t find a single Arab to put on their list of Israel’s most influential women. Last week the Israeli magazine Lady Globes (put out by business daily Globes) published its list of Israel’s 50 most influential women for 2016. Although it remains unclear what it takes for a woman to make the list…
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Samah Salaime
September 18, 2016
The threat of hope and truth in elections devoid of both
Proponents of a strong democracy should welcome young citizens sounding their voices. But a prime minister who builds his campaign on fear mongering clearly feels threatened by anyone grouping together the words ‘hope,’ ‘truth’ and ‘politics.’ By Don Futterman There is nothing Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud party finds so threatening as hope and truth. While…
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February 18, 2015
A pre-publication breakdown of Im Tirzu’s latest ‘report’
Im Tirtzu is about to publish a new ‘report.’ It’s already on the Internet, but they haven’t yet started publicizing it, so get ready to read about it here for the first time. Let’s start with the only new and refreshing aspect of this report. This is the first time that anyone has issued a…
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Yossi Gurvitz
May 21, 2014
John Kerry’s attack on liberal democracy
According to reports, the secretary of state has accepted Netanyahu’s demand that Israel be recognized as a ‘Jewish state.’ I added an important update to this post, see below. Haaretz’s Barak Ravid reported Wednesday that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is demanding that Arab leaders pressure the Palestinians to recognize Israel as “a Jewish State,”…
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Noam Sheizaf
January 8, 2014
Jerusalem Court: Okay to call Im Tirtzu a ‘fascist group’
A verdict by the Jerusalem District Court finds that recognizing ‘certain lines of resemblance’ to fascism in the ideology or activities of the right-wing movement can be seen as ‘truthful.’ The verdict is a major blow to Im Tirtzu’s efforts to portray itself as a mainstream, grassroots movement. The extreme-right group Im Tirtzu lost a…
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Noam Sheizaf
September 8, 2013
The peace industry’s slippery slope
The Left is mobilizing around the process while ignoring troubling signs: the dangerous dynamic of the Oslo/Camp David period is already here. On Wednesday night, as members of the Israeli Knesset were getting ready to vote on a package of amendments that could push the Palestinian parties out of the Israeli parliament, political activists were…
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Noam Sheizaf
August 2, 2013
IDF soldiers assault Reuters journalists after mistaking them for human rights workers
Soldiers beat cameramen in Hebron after suspecting that they work for B’Tselem. Recent years have seen an organized campaign by mainstream Israeli journalists and politicians against human rights organizations in Israel and the West Bank. Reuters reported that two of its cameramen were abused by IDF soldiers in Hebron on Wednesday night. The men were stripped,…
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Noam Sheizaf
December 14, 2012
In the ghetto of self-righteousness and self-pity
From attacks on our site to talking points for rabbis: thoughts for the Jewish New Year. So it’s that time of year again, when Gerald Steinberg writes an article about us. Steinberg, the head of a right-wing organization called NGO Monitor, has been using +972 (along with a few of other organizations) as tools in…
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Noam Sheizaf
September 25, 2012
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