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The grassroots movements in Israel-Palestine that won 2018
+972 Magazine’s story of the year for 2018 is the protest movements that managed to beat the odds by forcing governments to revisit and even change their policies. The story of African refugees stopping their deportation from Israel, and Gazans using popular protests to make sure the world doesn’t forget about them. By Michael Schaeffer…
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December 31, 2018
New anti-Semitism definition denies Palestinians’ right to challenge oppression
Those attacking the UK Labour party for its newly adopted definition of anti-Semitism are contributing to the silencing of Palestinian voices, the potential criminalization of their struggle against racist Israeli policies, and the negation of their demands for freedom and equality. By Laila Naheel and Hussein Samih A furor over a newly adopted definition of…
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+972 Magazine
July 26, 2018
IDF releases leading Palestinian nonviolent activist Ayed Morrar
Morrar was released without even appearing before a judge. Ahmed, his son, remains in prison pending an investigation into posts he wrote on Facebook. Ayed Morrar, who led the Palestinian village of Budrus in a nonviolent struggle against the separation barrier, was released from prison on Wednesday after being arrested by Israeli security forces two…
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Orly Noy
May 2, 2018
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Israeli army court orders Ahed Tamimi imprisoned for five more days
The Palestinian teenager from Nabi Saleh was arrested after being filmed confronting Israeli soldiers outside her home. Israeli forces have since arrested her mother and an another relative; her father Bassem received a summons while in court. By Oren Ziv and Yali (Yael) Marom The Israeli army’s Ofer Military Court extended by five days the…
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Yali (Yael) Marom
December 20, 2017
Palestinian citizens of Israel are key to resisting the occupation
If Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, those who have grown up in Israeli society and lived alongside Jewish Israelis, were to truly organize and leverage their unique position, it would be impossible to break without ripping off the mask of apartheid. By Rida Abu Rass Over the years, both the Israeli and Palestinian Left have learned…
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April 16, 2017
Palestinians deserve more than Mahmoud Abbas
At the Fatah Congress this week, Abbas’s followers seem to have affirmed a choice Oslo’s signatories made more than two decades ago: that livelihoods matter more than liberation. Palestinians deserve an alternative to this status quo. In Hisham Sharabi’s 1988 book, Neopatriarchy, the late Palestinian intellectual posits “a theory of distorted change in the Arab…
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Samer Badawi
December 1, 2016
WATCH: ‘They want to get rid of the idea of nonviolent resistance’
The Israeli army really wants to see Palestinian nonviolent activist Issa Amro in prison. We ask Issa why he’s facing 18 charges now, and what ‘winning’ would mean for him. Video by A. Daniel Roth, Aaron Rotenberg Nonviolent Palestinian organizer Issa Amro has been practicing and teaching nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience in the occupied city of Hebron…
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September 25, 2016
WATCH: How one West Bank village is fighting to regain its land
Residents of the village of Deir Istiya, located next to the West Bank settlement Ariel, have been nonviolently protesting the blocking off access to their farmland by the Israeli army, which affects the lives of 500 families.
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May 27, 2016
+972 Magazine’s Editor’s Picks of 2015
As 2015 comes to a close, +972 Magazine’s editors and bloggers look back at the year that was, and share the articles that most resonated with them – in no particular order. By +972 Magazine Staff Meet the new generation of Palestinians in Israel To most Jewish Israelis they don’t have names or faces. At worst…
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December 22, 2015
‘As long as we choose violence Israel will always defeat us’
Mubarak Awad, one of the main organizers of nonviolent resistance during the First Intifada until Israel exiled him, talks about why only nonviolence can defeat the occupation, how Palestinians must convince Israelis that peace is their own interest, and his fears that without a new nonviolent movement more and more Palestinian youths will be drawn…
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+972 Magazine
October 31, 2015
IDF court convicts Palestinian non-violent organizer, EU human rights defender
Israeli military court convicts Abdullah Abu Rahmah of obstructing a bulldozer building the separation barrier. His previous trial and imprisonment was followed closely by western governments. Abdullah Abu Rahmah, one of the central organizers of the popular resistance protests against the separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bil’in, was convicted of obstructing the work…
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Haggai Matar
October 23, 2014
In Bab Al-Shams, Palestinians create new facts on the ground
‘What made Bab Al-Shams significant was the fact that it asserted that Palestinian activists would not simply react to injustices the occupation laid at our doorstep, but that we were determined to create our own realities on the ground.’ By Irene Nasser Last week, I witnessed a remarkable victory for Palestinian unarmed civil resistance. Over…
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January 25, 2013
As Palestinian frustration grows, young man considers armed struggle
Hakem* believes that armed struggle and the strategic use of violence is the only way to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He calls BDS ‘silly’ and says Hamas has gone soft. He calls Israel ‘the entity’ and says it must be dismantled. After that, Hakem adds, Jews are welcome to stay. The situation in the West…
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Mya Guarnieri Jaradat
October 12, 2012
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