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How to turn human rights activists into ‘traitors’ in a few easy steps
The Israeli right’s years-long effort to portray Breaking the Silence as traitors fell flat on its face this last week. Will the media or the politicians who incited against them apologize? One day in the future, when high school students learn about the transformation of Israel from a nationalistic fortress state into a fascistic one, an entire chapter…
By
Orly Noy
February 6, 2019
What happens when teaching diaspora Jews about occupation gets ‘too political’
An item on Israel’s top news program falsely accused a volunteer program that allows young diaspora Jews to directly engage with the occupation, of sending its members to clash with IDF soldiers, causing it to lose its main source of funding. Now one of ‘Achvat Amim’s organizers is speaking out: ‘I hadn’t experienced being lied about and mischaracterized in…
By
Edo Konrad
September 19, 2017
Deputy defense minister wants to give IDF soldiers a license to kill
Eli Ben Dahan, who once called Palestinians ‘subhuman,’ wants soldiers to be able to freely shoot to kill. Israel’s Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben Dahan is reportedly working on submitting a bill proposal that will grant soldiers a license to kill, according to a Channel 2 news report that aired Saturday evening. The bill will allow…
By
Haggai Matar
January 7, 2017
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Eritrean man’s ‘lynch’ highlights failings of the Israeli press
The Israeli media shares some responsibility for the hysteria on the streets and the phenomenon of ‘accidental’ attacks against Jews, Palestinians, and now Eritreans. By Hagar Shezaf Habtom Zerhom, an Eritrean asylum seeker, was shot by security forces and then lynched by Israelis in Beer Sheva’s bus station after being mistakenly identified as a terrorist…
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October 20, 2015
Racial attack on Israeli TV crew a sign of extremism turning normal
An attack on a television news crew indicates that the violence of the far right has reached the heart of Israeli cities. A television crew from Israel’s Channel 2 was attacked on Thursday evening by onlookers while covering a stabbing attack in the northern city of Afula. The reporter, Furat Nasser, is an Arab citizen, while…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
October 10, 2015
October 2000: How to get Israelis to empathize with Arabs
A former editor of Israel’s flagship weekend television news program reflects on the challenge of presenting the October 2000 events — when Israeli police killed 13 unarmed Arab protesters — in a way Jewish Israelis might empathize with the pain of the country’s Palestinian population. By Anat Saragusti It was an intense meeting in a…
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October 6, 2015
Casting Jewish-American boycott activists as hypocrites
Israel’s top weekend news show forgets about journalistic integrity when painting American Jewish supporters of the BDS movement as hypocritical, ungrateful and misinformed. Last Friday, Channel 2’s popular weekend news show, “Ulpan Shishi,” ran a report by senior anchor Danny Kushmaro, who traveled to the United States to interview the Jews behind the boycott Israel…
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Haggai Matar
July 19, 2015
Jerusalem megaplex caught demanding ‘Jewish only’ drivers
For months on end Cinema City Jerusalem demanded that a contracted taxi company send only Jewish drivers for some of its workers. When the company refused, the megaplex cut its ties. An investigative by our Hebrew site, Local Call, in cooperation with ‘Ulpan Shishi,’ Channel 2’s flagship news broadcast. By Yael Marom “If she wants…
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May 22, 2015
Only Israel’s public TV gives equal coverage to Arab Joint List
Despite polling better in than mid-sized Jewish parties, the Israeli media is simply paying less attention to the Arab Joint List. By Oren Persico Israel’s public television, Channel 1, is devoting more time to reporting on the Joint Arab List running for Israel’s Knesset than the country’s other commercial television news channels, a survey of…
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The Seventh Eye
February 21, 2015
Not even a ‘bump on the wing’ these days when killing Palestinians
No one in Israel really talks about the killing of innocent Palestinians anymore. There was a time when we murdered people and it actually bothered us. On Tuesday, the IDF attempted to kill Mohammed Deif, the military leader of Hamas in Gaza, by dropping five one-tonne bombs on a home. As these lines are written…
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Ami Kaufman
August 21, 2014
Were Gaza tunnels built to harm Israeli civilians?
For weeks we’ve been hearing about the threat the Gaza tunnels pose to Israeli civilians. In reality, every tunnel so far has been used against military targets alone. By Emanual Yelin (translated by Sinewave) The existence of the tunnels in Gaza was well-known to Israel’s Defense Ministry, although their scope was only revealed to the general…
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August 11, 2014
This is a war of choice. Netanyahu’s choice
Netanyahu is no hero, and the tragedy is our own. Prime Minister Netanyahu fired Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon on Tuesday, after the latter criticized Netanyahu for holding fire, and even called him “a lefty,” which is probably the worst thing you can say to someone in the current political atmosphere. Sacking Danon is not…
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Noam Sheizaf
July 16, 2014
How can you tell that Israeli refuseniks are scaring the system?
From talk show hosts to Finance Minister Yair Lapid, the new conscientious objectors are infuriating Israel’s elite. By Moriel Rothman This week, a group of 50+ Israeli high schools students and youth penned a letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu declaring their refusal to enlist in the army as an act of protest against Israel’s 47-year old military…
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March 13, 2014
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