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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 11, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

The Israeli right is the minority — the left need only realize it

It’s time for the Jewish left to understand that by aligning its struggle with the Palestinians, it can be part of a majority against occupation and apartheid.

By Meron Rapoport January 12, 2023

Palestinians walk past a section of the separation wall in the East Jerusalem village of Abu Dis, February 2, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

PODCAST: What happened to the Green Line?

Israeli policies and Palestinian resistance have both served to erode the Green Line over the decades. Has it gone for good?

By Natasha Roth-Rowland September 16, 2022

Israeli soldiers prevent Palestinian workers from crossing through a damaged section of the separation barrier near the West Bank checkpoint of Meitar, near Hebron, April 3, 2022. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

The line separating Israel and Palestine has been erased. What comes next?

For 55 years, successive Israeli governments have chipped away at both the idea and reality of the Green Line. Its disappearance finally gives us a chance to open our political imagination and envision the land differently.

By Meron Rapoport August 10, 2022

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Palestinians climb over the Israeli Separation Wall to attend the Friday prayer in Al-Aqsa Mosque, in the town of Al-Ram, West Bank, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, July 3, 2015. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

How Palestinian resistance tore down the Green Line long ago

Israel's consolidation of a single regime unwittingly enabled Palestinians to rebuild their national fabric between the river and the sea. Now, despite their physical dispersal, Palestinians have never been more connected.

By Amjad Iraqi August 10, 2022

A view of Israel's Separation Wall and the Al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem, February 2, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

No, Israel’s apartheid doesn’t stop at the Green Line

The fall of the Bennett government illustrates that maintaining Jewish supremacy overrides all other considerations in Israeli politics.

By Orly Noy June 27, 2022

Palestinian youth open a gate of the separation wall during a demonstration marking 12 years of the struggle against the occupation in the West Bank village of Bil'in, February 17, 2017. (Oren Ziv)

The Green Line is dead. What comes next?

As the tenets of Israel's separation regime crumble away, Israelis face a choice: mass expulsion, formalized apartheid — or full equality for all.

By Meron Rapoport April 1, 2022

Israeli troops confiscate a vegetables vendor as they guard construction work by a main road south of Hebron in the West Bank on December 16, 2019. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Why B’Tselem is calling Israel an apartheid regime, from the river to the sea

One of Israel's top human rights groups recognizes the occupation cannot be viewed in isolation from the goal of Jewish supremacy inside the Green Line.

By Orly Noy January 12, 2021

Israelis look on at an Independence Day military parade at the Hebrew University Stadium, Jerusalem, April 24, 1958. (GPO)

What would Israeli identity look like without Zionism?

In post-Apartheid South Africa, white Afrikaners had to create a national identity that was not based on subjugation of another people. It is a question that Israeli Jews, too, will one day have to face.

By Yuli Novak June 11, 2020

Former Supreme Court President Meir Shamgar. May 19, 2011. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

The judge who designed the legal foundations of Israel’s occupation

No one personifies the Zionist dissonance more than Meir Shamgar, the former president of the Supreme Court who died last week. He created the legal provisions for the protection of personal rights, while enshrining Israel's rule over the occupied territories.

By Michael Sfard October 24, 2019

Mahmoud Katusa, seen after his release from Israeli prison, at the Beitunia crossing, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, June 25, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

How the media helped turn an innocent Palestinian into a child rapist

Mahmoud Katusa, who was falsely accused of raping a 7-year-old Jewish girl, fell victim to a press and a public atmosphere that views Palestinians as guilty until proven innocent. By Uzi Benziman In order to understand the false allegations against Mahmoud Katusa, a Palestinian man from the West Bank who was wrongfully accused of raping a…

By The Seventh Eye June 25, 2019

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the AIPAC Conference in Washington DC, on March 6, 2018. (Haim Zach/GPO)

You have the power to stop apartheid: An open letter to AIPAC

American Jews, who play such a central role in what happens in Israel, can put an end to the oppression of Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line. But only if they tell Israelis that enough is enough. By Marzuq al-Halabi Dear AIPAC leaders, In one of his most famous poems, “Think of Others,” Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish…

By +972 Magazine March 22, 2019

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban hold a Rubik's Cube at the Hungary-Israel Business Forum in Budapest, Hungary, July 19, 2017. (Haim Zach/GPO)

The rise of the global far-right could energize the anti-occupation movement

The warm relations between Israel and a new crop of anti-democratic leaders are tragic, but they also expose the true nature of Israel’s relationship to the Palestinians. By Eli Bitan Only hours after Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil last Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to phone the extreme-right candidate. Netanyahu accepted Bolsonaro’s invitation to…

By +972 Magazine November 4, 2018

Palestinians try to climb over the separation wall at the Qalandyia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem on their way to attend the last Friday prayers in Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque during Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Friday, July 1, 2016. (Photo by Flash90)

The changing relationship between Palestinians on either side of the wall

Despite physical separation and internal divisions, Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line are once again talking about the future of their struggle, and the role that Palestinian citizens of Israel can play. Out of sight from most of the Israeli public, yet under the close watch of the government, an internal debate has been raging within…

By Rami Younis July 15, 2018