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How Israel’s emergency plans widened the south’s class divides
Four teachers at an Ashkelon high school reveal how the state’s handling of Oct. 7 evacuees played into racial, economic, and geographic inequalities.
By
Roy Cohen
January 10, 2024
A lesson on Israeli ‘democracy’ from an 18-year-old draft refuser
Previous generations of Israelis closed their eyes to the oppression of Palestinians, Mizrahim, and asylum seekers. Our generation can be different.
By
Yahli Agai
September 5, 2023
From Salama to Kfar Shalem: How Mizrahim fit into the ongoing Nakba
The expulsion of Salama’s Palestinians, the settling of Mizrahi Jews in their place, and the eviction of those residents decades later reveals the mechanism by which Israel continues to erase Palestinian existence.
By
Doron Yacov
and
Adi Golan Bikhnafo
May 15, 2023
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Praising the Ashkenazi spy, punishing the Mizrahi dissident
For Israel, Jonathan Pollard's aiding of the Jewish state erases the criminality of his treason; Mordechai Vanunu's whistleblowing makes him a threat.
By
Omri Najad
December 31, 2020
The Nation-State Law had its day in court, as did the farce of Israeli democracy
During the hearing, the High Court justices saw no problem with demoting the status of Arabic and claimed that 'equality' is something best left for the future.
By
Orly Noy
December 24, 2020
The story of Israel’s Ashkenazi supremacy in one river
A river running through an Israeli kibbutz has turned into a site of controversy and violence that highlights how irrelevant the Zionist left has become.
By
Lihi Yona
August 18, 2020
How Likud’s Ashkenazi elite became the patron saints of the Mizrahim
Benjamin Netanyahu and his Ashkenazi allies are exploiting Mizrahi resentment in order to delegitimize the current protests.
By
Orly Noy
August 3, 2020
‘How can a Palestinian feel a sense of equality in a Judaizing state?’
In a wide-ranging interview, Prof. Amal Jamal talks about the exclusion of Palestinian citizens from Israel's COVID-19 response, Netanyahu's consolidation of power, and the possibility of a different Israeli identity.
By
Tom Mehager
July 12, 2020
The Mizrahi feminist archiving the ‘unspoken histories’ of Israel-Palestine
Sapir Sluzker-Amran talks about starting a civic archive that centers disadvantaged groups and challenges the dominant Israeli narrative.
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
July 10, 2020
‘Our ideology is our pain’: Notes of an Israeli Black Panther
Reuven Abergel, one of the founders of the Israeli Black Panthers, talks about the complex relationship between the Mizrahim who led the movement in the 1970s and the Ashkenazi leftists who supported it.
By
Reuven Abergel
June 26, 2020
Mizrahi-washing: The new face of Israeli propaganda
A new brand of pro-Israel activism is exploiting the oppression of Mizrahi Jews in order to justify the subjugation of Palestinians.
By
Lihi Yona
June 25, 2020
Splintered but not broken: A history of Israel’s independent left
From class struggles to women's rights to fighting occupation, Israel's 'independent left' was never a cohesive social movement. Yet its impact is being felt to this day.
By
Matan Kaminer
and
Joel Beinin
May 28, 2020
Jewish terrorism: Ashkenazim provide the fuel, Mizrahim light the match
Israeli leaders have imbued generations of Mizrahim with a hatred for both Arabs as well as their own Arab identity. The results have been deadly.
By
Orly Noy
May 19, 2020
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