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For renowned legal scholar, Israeli democracy meant Jewish dominance
Ruth Gavison, who died last month, was seen as a civil rights pioneer in Israel — yet her views justified overriding those rights to preserve a Jewish majority.
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Ran Greenstein
September 2, 2020
What Israel can learn from Morocco’s multiculturalism
Since it gained independence in 1956, Morocco’s national identity has transformed from a homogenous Arab one to multicultural. Israel could stand to learn a lesson or two. By Einat Levi Two weeks ago, the Knesset passed the controversial Jewish Nation-State Law. Sixty-two members of Israel’s parliament voted in favor, 55 opposed, and two abstained. Several…
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August 10, 2018
The unknown history of the UN plan to partition Palestine
Twenty years after the Palestinian leadership declared partition ‘entirely illegal,’ they reversed course and recognized that accepting the division of the homeland could lay the groundwork for an independent state. By Jerome M. Segal A few days ago, Israel and its supporters worldwide marked the 70th Anniversary of the 1947 Partition Resolution, which was passed by the UN…
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December 1, 2017
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A new activism, a new politics, a new generation of Palestinians in Israel
+972 sits down with four young, prominent, politically active Palestinian citizens of Israel to discuss their demands, how they are different than the generations that preceded them, and their hopes for the Joint List.
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Henriette Chacar
March 11, 2015
Top 10 reasons Israel should be going to early elections
From bombs dropped on innocent children in Gaza to the increasing gap between rich and poor, there are many good reasons why the current government needs to go. 1. Israel is going to early elections, but not because this government went on an unnecessary adventure in Gaza killing 500 innocent children only a few months…
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Ami Kaufman
December 2, 2014
I am a Palestinian Jew, or at least I will be
In order to avoid theocracy, apartheid and civil war, one Israeli believes it is time for her fellow Jewish citizens to start re-imagining their identity. By Dorit Naaman Fine, I am not yet a Palestinian Jew, but in 10 to 15 years – and certainly in my lifetime – this place will be called Palestine,…
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June 17, 2014
WATCH: Recognizing Israel as a Jewish state, or an ‘ethnocracy?’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently proposed enshrining the Jewish character of Israel into a basic law, the closest thing Israel has to a constitution. What would such a law mean for Israel’s Palestinian minority? Israeli academic Oren Yiftachel talks about ‘ethnocracy,’ a term he coined that describes the Israeli regime. By Lia Tarachansky / ‘The…
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May 27, 2014
The burden, and wall, of Zionism
Zionism has come to refer not to the many ways of building Israel, but to a litmus test. Any answer other than ‘I am a Zionist,’ is akin to being un-American in the 1950s. I didn’t join a Labor Zionist youth movement at 14 because I thought of myself as a Zionist. Actually I shied…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
May 6, 2014
Netanyahu’s incredible spin: How they once more speak of ‘Palestinian rejectionism’
The ‘conflict of narratives’ hoax wins the day. You’ve got to hand it to Bibi – he is the master of micro-politics. What he lacks in vision he makes up for with details. He is also becoming very good at setting the media’s agenda, something he wasn’t able to do in either his first term…
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Noam Sheizaf
March 20, 2014
Netanyahu steps up demands, wants settlers to remain in Palestinian state
The Israeli prime minister tells reporters he wouldn’t ‘uproot’ a single Israeli. Netanyahu’s office later explains that the object of the new demand is to score points against the Palestinian Authority by ‘exposing its real face.’ A couple of statements from Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu are adding to the confusion over the kind of solution…
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Noam Sheizaf
January 27, 2014
Peace groups should criticize Kerry too
The fact that Israeli and American right-wingers are attacking Secretary Kerry should not make him immune to criticism from within the peace camp. Troubling reports have been coming out of the Israeli-American-Palestinian negotiations in recent weeks. According to Israeli and Palestinian media, Secretary of State Kerry’s initiative appears to be growing less ambitious with each…
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Noam Sheizaf
January 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
Denying ‘Israeli nationality’ only perpetuates discrimination
One group of Israelis is working tirelessly to ensure that every citizen of Israel feels like they belong, regardless of religion or ethnicity. By Uzzi Ornan (Translated by Jordan Michaeli) There is a discriminatory regime in Israel, a regime under which citizens are granted and denied rights on the basis of whether they are Jews…
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November 9, 2013
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