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Teachers or terrorists? Far-right MKs want the Shin Bet to police schools
A bill authorizing Israel's security service to hire and fire teachers, a policy long carried out in Arab schools, is so extreme that even the Shin Bet opposes it.
By
Gil Gertel
July 26, 2023
The return of Israel’s military rule over Palestinian citizens
Long wielded in the occupied territories, administrative detention could be the next tool in Ben Gvir's arsenal of repression against Palestinian citizens.
By
Orly Noy
June 13, 2023
‘Palestinians handle trauma better when we struggle together to survive’
During the May 2021 uprising, Asrar Kayyal was part of a network of psychologists supporting Palestinian victims of Israeli violence and their families. She talks with +972 about the myriad traumas Palestinians endure.
By
Vera Sajrawi
August 25, 2022
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Hebron’s Palestinians need hope, not military rule
Nearly 50 years after the occupation of Hebron, Israel still hasn’t figured out how to stop Palestinian violence. If you have been attuned to the internal Israeli conversation over the past few days, you’ll have noticed that the drums of war are beating once again. In a piece published Friday, Haaretz’s military and defense expert…
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Edo Konrad
November 27, 2015
The ‘new Zionism’ is turning Negev Bedouin into a myth
As the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran prepares to be replaced by a Jewish town with a near-identical name, its residents are offering solutions based on real co-existence. By Ariel Dloomy In July 2007 I witnessed one of the saddest events of my life. Hundreds of security force personnel descended upon the Bedouin village of…
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Haokets
June 26, 2015
Fighting occupation must not blind us from remembering the Nakba
A solution to the problem of the occupation will be worthless if we do not gain the courage to take apart the human food chain that has become entrenched in this land since 1948. On Sunday night, I spoke at the annual protest march — this time in Jerusalem, rather than Tel Aviv where it…
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Orly Noy
May 31, 2015
Judge: Equality in the West Bank, just not for Palestinians
A Jerusalem judge acquits an Israeli man who broke through an West Bank checkpoint into Palestinian-controlled territory, ruling that it’s unacceptable for an Israeli citizen to be discriminated against by virtue of his religion. (Arab — but not Jewish — citizens of Israel are allowed to enter ‘Area A’.) But the ruling means nothing for…
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+972 Magazine
December 29, 2014
Negev Bedouin are now demolishing their own homes out of despair
After losing a lengthy legal battle against the state, residents of the unrecognized Bedouin village Sawa decided that demolishing their own homes is preferable to seeing the authorities do it. By Michal Rotem On Tuesday of last week, the residents of Sawa, an unrecognized Bedouin village in the Negev Desert, used their own money to…
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+972 Magazine
December 26, 2014
Resource: Two legal systems — discrimination under military occupation
One of the most prominent and disturbing characteristics of Israeli military rule in the West Bank is the creation and development of an official and institutionalized legal regime of two separate legal systems, on an ethnic-national basis. The long-standing residence of citizens of the State of Israel, the occupying power, in settlements at the heart…
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+972 Resources
December 22, 2014
‘Truth commission’ uncovers the history of Bedouin dispossession
An informal ‘Public Truth Commission’ set out to find exactly what happened to the Negev Bedouin between 1948 and 1960. While Bedouin witnesses told stories of massacres, rape and expulsions, former Israeli soldiers said they were just following orders. By Tom Pessah I identify as straight, so I cannot claim to know how it feels…
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+972 Magazine
December 14, 2014
Israelis opt to stay blind so as to remain righteous victims
Just as our speeches are old news, we too refuse to change with the times. While the region becomes more democratic, Israelis still cannot accept their share of the responsibility, choosing instead to repeat familiar clichés By Eyal Clyne a) Netanyahu’s speech before Congress: Just a speech, what’s the big deal? Ha’aretz reports that following…
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June 3, 2011
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