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Palestinian artists stifled as Israel ‘weaponizes fear and fame’
Death threats, arrests, and self-censorship are creating a repressive environment for Palestinian cultural figures and institutions in Israel.
By
Mariam Farah
April 23, 2024
Hebrew University’s Faculty of Repressive Science
The suspension of Palestinian professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian empties all meaning from the university’s proclaimed values of pluralism and equality.
By
Orly Noy
March 23, 2024
The spiraling absurdity of Germany’s pro-Israel fanaticism
As repression of Palestine solidarity penetrates every sector of life, the state's liberal self-image is fast becoming a story Germans can only tell themselves.
By
Michael Sappir
March 21, 2024
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For Palestinians, social media influence comes with the threat of prison
The persecution of activists like Ramzi Abbassi illustrates Israel’s escalating attempts to stifle Palestinian expression online since May 2021.
By
Sophia Goodfriend
October 2, 2023
US anti-boycott laws could take a ‘draconian’ turn. But the fight is not over
ACLU lawyer Brian Hauss clears up misinformation about the Supreme Court's decision not to hear a local newspaper's challenge of Israel boycott legislation.
By
Nate Orbach
March 1, 2023
Top court puts end to Palestinian poet’s four-year legal saga
Dareen Tatour was arrested after the security services decided her poetry constituted ‘incitement.’ After nearly three years under house arrest, a trial, and jail time, she is finally free. Dareen Tatour, the Palestinian poet arrested in 2015 over a poem she published on Facebook, is finally free. After years of house arrest, months in prison, and dogged efforts by the government to secure the maximum…
By
Oren Ziv
October 3, 2019
Palestinian jailed for poems appeals conviction
Dareen Tatour was convicted of incitement to violence and support for terrorism in her poetry. Rescinding the charges won’t exonerate her completely, but it would allow her to continue writing. By Yoav Haifawi In ordinary trials, after a defendant has finished serving their sentence, one can safely assume that the legal drama is over. There…
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January 4, 2019
‘Criticizing the government nowadays makes you a traitor’
Avi Katz, the cartoonist let go by ‘The Jerusalem Report’ over a caricature depicting Netanyahu and Likud lawmakers as characters from ‘Animal Farm,’ talks about what happened behind the scenes, why accusations of anti-Semitism are so off-base, and what the saga says about freedom of expression in Israel today. By Oren Persico Avi Katz wasn’t…
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The Seventh Eye
September 23, 2018
In Haifa, a display of Palestinian grassroots power
The combined efforts of Palestinians in using their bodies, cameras, and voices to support detained protesters made it impossible for the police to hide the severity of their actions. The release of 19 Palestinian citizens of Israel on Monday, who had been arrested since Friday, after police violently dispersed a demonstration in Haifa against last…
By
Amjad Iraqi
May 21, 2018
‘Open up or we’ll tase you’: Police arrest activists protesting Gaza violence
In the northern city of Haifa, Israeli police are arresting activists who are organizing demonstrations against the violence in Gaza. Israeli police arrested and interrogated a number of Palestinian and Jewish political activists from the northern city of Haifa over the past several days, due to their participation in demonstrations following the killing of over…
By
Orly Noy
May 18, 2018
Palestinian poet convicted of inciting terror in Facebook poem
Dareen Tatour was arrested in 2015 and held in house arrest for nearly three years for publishing a poem on Facebook. On Thursday morning, an Israeli court convicted her of incitement to violence and support for a terrorist organization. By +972 Magazine Staff An Israeli court convicted poet Dareen Tatour, a Palestinian citizen of Israel,…
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+972 Magazine
May 3, 2018
The slow death of Israeli citizenship
As the Right consolidates its power over nearly every sphere of Israeli politics, it is slowly turning citizenship into a matter of ideology. Non-Jewish citizens aren’t the only ones who will suffer. By Marzuq Al-Halabi The concept of citizenship in Israel has always suffered from significant inadequacies, whether due to the Law of Return or to…
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October 15, 2017
Is it ‘unethical’ to oppose the occupation in academia?
A new ‘code of ethics’ commissioned by Israel’s education minister seems to target left-wing politics in universities. The Israeli Education Ministry, headed by far-right politician Naftali Bennett, recently commissioned an ethical code for political conduct in higher education in Israel. The resulting document (Hebrew) is a highly invasive set of political thought controls portrayed as…
By
Dahlia Scheindlin
June 12, 2017
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