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Edi Edlund (left) and Abed Islam, founders of the Neve Shalom/Wahat Al Salam school. (Courtesy of Neve Shalom/Wahat Al Salam)

Surviving the ups and downs: Israel’s first Arab-Jewish school turns 30

For three decades the school at Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam has taught our children how to grow and become adults with a cohesive national and human identity, without fear of the other. Today, however, the future looks as uncertain as ever. (Translated from Hebrew by Rivka Einy) Atop a small mountain in the Latrun area lies the…

By Samah Salaime July 4, 2015

Screenshot from Ta'ayush footage

WATCH: IDF does not want you to see what occupation looks like

According to Guy, an Israeli Ta’ayush activist and documentarian of occupation in the South Hebron Hills area of the West Bank – there has been an increase in incidents over the last month in which Israel Defense Forces soldiers have been preventing him and other Israelis from filming what goes on. In this 7-minute video,…

By Mairav Zonszein March 23, 2013

Beitar Jerusalem soocer club fans celebrate in Jerusalem after the team wins the Israeli championships.
Jerusalem, May 14, 2007.
Photo: Tess Scheflan/ Activestills.Org

Soccer racism finally takes a hit in Jerusalem

Over the violent protests of its fascist fan club, Beitar Jerusalem makes good on its promise to bring two Muslim players onto team. A small victory over racism, but a victory nonetheless. Even if it’s a drop in the ocean, it’s a pretty big drop: the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team, symbol of Israeli racism at…

By Larry Derfner February 11, 2013

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Why the inconvenient truths of the Nakba must be recognized

By Tom Pessah Limor Livnat was furious. The minister of culture was speaking at a Knesset discussion about the Independence Day arrests in Tel Aviv, following an attempt by a small non-profit called Zochrot to commemorate the Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948. The Israeli police surrounded the Zochrot office in central Tel Aviv, preventing…

By +972 Magazine May 14, 2012

Mohammad Bakri in Tel Aviv last September (photo: Keren Manor / Activestills)

Min. of Culture urges Tzavta Theater to ban Mohammad Bakri

In response to Desmond Tutu’s call on the Capetown Opera Company to cancel their 2010 tour in Israel, director Michael Williams said, “arts and academics are never the right place to boycott.” These words jumped into my mind this week as I read of the organization Im Tirzu’s demonstrations against actor and director Mohammad Bakri,…

By Ori J. Lenkinski February 2, 2012

To the Knesset: How dare you not vote on the boycott bill

I know that most of our dignified and thoughtful elected representatives are ashamed that the ignominious “boycott bill” would even be debated in our proud democracy. I know this because so many of them – 35 in total – protested by refusing to show their faces at the vote. Only 85 of our 120 members…

By Dahlia Scheindlin July 13, 2011

Minister of Culture and Sports Limor Livnat (Credit: Activestills)

Knesset goes after artists who didn’t serve in the IDF

What’s wrong with the “military service shirkers” bill? Well, just about everything The Ministerial Legislation Committee is scheduled to debate tomorrow (Sunday) a bill by MK Moshe Matalon (Yisrael Beitenu), which prohibits government support of artists who are “military service shirkers” (Mishtamtim, in Hebrew). In explaining why the bill is essential (Hebrew document), Matalon says:…

By Yossi Gurvitz February 19, 2011

My Prime Minister described me as a backstabber

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said something of note today. During a cabinet meeting he criticized the artists boycotting the new centre for the performing arts in the settlement of Ariel. This is nothing new. He and others have criticized them before, and culture minister Limor Livnat even proposed a law that would force them to…

By Yuval Ben-Ami November 14, 2010