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The Nation-State Law had its day in court, as did the farce of Israeli democracy
During the hearing, the High Court justices saw no problem with demoting the status of Arabic and claimed that 'equality' is something best left for the future.
By
Orly Noy
December 24, 2020
What would Israelis do if Palestinians disappeared overnight?
Ibtisam Azem speaks to +972 about how, with the sudden vanishing of ‘the enemy’ in her newly-translated novel, she confronts some of the darkest chapters of Israel's history.
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
November 11, 2019
Druze draft refuser sent to Israeli military prison, put in solitary
Druze-Arab men, unlike other Arab citizens of Israel, are subject to the same mandatory conscription as Jewish Israelis. Kamal Zidan is refusing because of his Palestinian identity. Kamal Zidan, an Arab-Druze citizen of Israel, presented himself at the Israeli army’s Tel HaShomer induction based last Sunday and declared that he refuses to be conscripted into the…
By
Rami Younis
April 22, 2019
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Israel’s Druze reject Netanyahu’s divide-and-conquer policies
A newly-approved Druze town is slated to be built atop destroyed Palestinian villages. But the Druze community refuses to let the government sow discord among Israel’s ethnic minorities under the guise of development. With great fanfare, the Prime Minister’s Office released a press statement Tuesday announcing that the National Planning Council had approved the prime minister’s initiative…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
January 6, 2016
Music video lambasts recruitment of Palestinians to Israel’s army
Prominent Palestinian musicians say recruiting minority ethnic and religious Arab groups into the army is part of Israel’s divide-and-conquer tactics, pushing young Palestinians to ‘side with the occupation’ and shrug off their national and historical identity. Two prominent Palestinian musicians released a hip-hop music video this week lambasting efforts to recruit young Palestinian citizens of…
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Rami Younis
November 7, 2015
First, do no harm: Israel and the Druze in Syria
Some Druze in Israel are campaigning for intervention to save their kin on the Syrian side of the border, but the Druze in Syria reject the idea out of hand. Instead, they are demanding that Israel stop supporting the people threatening to massacre them. By Rabah Halabi ISIL and Jabhat al-Nusra are fanatical religious movements…
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+972 Magazine
June 22, 2015
The Beaten Path: Tel Aviv’s after hours – a night apart (part 12)
Tel Aviv isn’t a single bubble, but rather a bubble made up of myriad sexual, political and social identities. But between the sex, drugs and rock n’ roll lies a city whose nightlife is also full of homegrown segregation. Part 12 of Yuval Ben-Ami’s journey through the Holy Land’s most popular tourist sites. It was American-Jewish thinker…
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Yuval Ben-Ami
December 25, 2014
[WATCH] The Druze in Israel: Resisting conscription (part 4)
According to the mainstream Israeli narrative the Druze population in Israel is loyal to and maintains an alliance with the state, the most famous element of which includes mandatory military service. But is that really the whole story? The fourth part of this series looks at a new movement of young Druze women and men…
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December 12, 2014
[WATCH] The Druze in Israel: Appropriating identity (part 3)
According to the mainstream Israeli narrative the Druze population in Israel is loyal to and maintains an alliance with the state, the most famous element of which includes mandatory military service. But is that really the whole story? The third part of this series looks at Druze identity and its variations: from Palestinian to Israeli.…
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Social TV
December 5, 2014
[WATCH] Druze refusal in the Israeli army: Land expropriation (part two)
According to the mainstream Israeli narrative the Druze population in Israel is loyal to and maintains an alliance with the state, the most famous element of which includes mandatory military service. But is that really the whole story? The second episode in this four-part series looks at how despite drafting Druze men into the army,…
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Social TV
November 27, 2014
[WATCH] Druze refusal in the Israeli army (part 1): A history lesson
According to the mainstream Israeli narrative the Druze population in Israel is loyal to and maintains an alliance with the state, the most famous element of which includes mandatory military service. But is that really the whole story? The first episode in a four-part series looking at Druze in Israel, their relationship with the security…
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November 16, 2014
Druze conscientious objector Omar Sa’ad released from military service
Six months after he was sentenced to his first prison term for refusing to join the IDF, Druze conscientious objector Omar Sa’ad was released from military service on Wednesday. Sa’ad, an 18-year-old violist from the northern village Maghar, was sentenced to his first term on December 5th, 2013 in the Tiberias induction base. Since then, he…
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Edo Konrad
June 19, 2014
WATCH: Is the IDF the ‘great equalizer’ of Israeli society?
One of the foundational myths of the State of Israel is that regardless of one’s ethnic or socio-economic background, recruitment into the army was the way to create social mobility that would place everyone on an equal playing field. Today, minority groups such as Ethiopian, Bedouin and Druze continue trying to integrate into society through…
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Social TV
January 13, 2014
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