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Peace Now is taking direct action against settler outposts. Can it succeed?
The anti-occupation group is pushing the Zionist left to adopt more disruptive tactics, says interim head Dana Mills. But are there limits to its approach?
By
Oren Ziv
and
Meron Rapoport
August 16, 2022
The Israeli left has broken the Nakba taboo. Will the right of return be next?
The past year has seen many left-wing Israeli groups looking beyond the occupation to confront the legacies of 1948, but they remain divided over redressing the exile of Palestinian refugees through return.
By
Ben Reiff
June 23, 2022
Israel’s peace camp is taking up bulldozers to fight the occupation
A demo against a settler outpost shows how Israeli activists are increasingly adopting radical direct action following the anti-Netanyahu protests.
By
Oren Ziv
and
Haggai Matar
June 1, 2022
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Israel’s ‘strangling’ of Bethlehem tightens as world debates annexation
West Bank settlements are expanding around Bethlehem despite annexation pushback, cutting off Palestinians from their land and from each other.
By
Judith Sudilovsky
June 18, 2020
Resource: Tracking Israel’s support for illegal outposts
The Israeli government has been quietly authorizing illegal settlement outposts in recent years. A criminal activity, the trend also exposes Palestinians to increased violence and harassment from settlers. Text by Rachel Shenhav-Goldberg Illegal settlement outposts have become increasingly regularized during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s tenure, according to a recent report from Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now. In a…
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+972 Resources
September 20, 2019
How one of Israel’s veteran activists came to support (some) sanctions
Galia Golan has been in the peacemaking business for nearly five decades. In a wide-ranging interview, the Peace Now co-founder discusses why she left the group, her support for a Israeli-Palestinian confederation, and why full-blown BDS won't work.
By
Edo Konrad
November 20, 2018
A rotten system, not just rotten apples
Settler violence against human rights activists is not the work of a few ‘rotten apples,’ but rather a government-backed strategy that could have dangerous consequences. We should be taking it deathly seriously. By Libby Lenkinski Over the last few weeks, the settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron have ramped up their harassment of…
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+972 Magazine
August 1, 2018
Why settlement boycotters shouldn’t join the BDS movement
Although the Israeli government’s crackdown on the BDS movement will doubtless boost sympathy for its cause, progressive settlement boycotters should think twice before getting onboard. By Abe Silberstein When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu compared settlement evacuation to ethnic cleansing last September, it became clear that the Israeli government was redoubling its efforts to improve the reputation…
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+972 Magazine
April 4, 2017
How the director of Peace Now saved Bibi and the peace process
Avi Buskila, the new director general of Peace Now, may come as an outsider to the world of peace organizations but there’s one unique item on his resume nobody else can lay claim to. Twenty years ago I was a deputy company commander in the West Bank city of Hebron. The first Netanyahu government was about…
By
Noam Sheizaf
April 5, 2016
Israeli settlements have created a ‘state within a state’
Not only physical settler violence goes largely unpunished — the structural violence of those driving the settlement enterprise, in the form of open land theft and everything it entails, also goes largely unaddressed. What keeps the long arm of the law at bay? A primetime investigative news program revealed to all of Israel last week widespread…
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
February 10, 2016
Thousands demonstrate in Tel Aviv: ‘No security without a solution’
Thousands of Israelis demonstrate in central Tel Aviv against the government’s unwillingness to reach an agreement with the Palestinians. Photos by Yotam Ronen, Oren Ziv / Activestills.org Thousands of Israelis participated in a protest march in central Tel Aviv Saturday night against the Netanyahu government’s policies in the West Bank and the continuing violence. The…
By
Edo Konrad
October 24, 2015
WATCH: Settlers assault, throw stones at Palestinian farmers
The villagers of Ash-Shuyukh have been trying to reach their lands for 10 years — each time they are attacked by settlers. When they arrived there on Saturday, Israeli activists had cameras ready. Settlers attacked a small group of Palestinian farmers from the village of Ash-Shuyukh who came to work their land near the settlements…
By
Haggai Matar
November 17, 2014
Peace Now highlights ‘epidemic’ of incitement in Israel
Video campaign shows selection out of hundreds of thousands of inciting comments against ‘leftists.’ The pro-peace group is far from the only target of recent incitement — even the president is falling victim. Peace Now has launched an online video campaign to raise awareness about incitement, intolerance and hate speech directed specifically at “leftists” in Israel and expressed…
By
Mairav Zonszein
November 6, 2014
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