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Israel’s top newspapers aren’t concerned with the killing of Palestinian kids
The fate of Palestinian children bombed by Israeli fighter jets in Gaza is barely an afterthought for the Israeli press.
By
Edo Konrad
May 11, 2021
Netanyahu to be indicted on bribery charges. Here’s what you need to know
The indictment would mark the first time in Israeli history that a sitting prime minister has been charged with a crime. By +972 Magazine Staff Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced his intention to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday on criminal offenses in all three corruption cases against him. The attorney general decided to charge…
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+972 Magazine
February 28, 2019
Why the struggle for free media in Israel-Palestine matters
We are witnessing the emergence of a new kind of media in Israel and Palestine — the kind that truly has the potential to transform how we see this place. We are in the midst of an immense transformation in the media landscape. The way people communicate and consume information and knowledge is being fundamentally altered.…
By
Roi Maor
December 21, 2017
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In Israel’s trade catalog, arms and asylum seekers are equal commodities
With arbitrary arrest and detention, forcible transfer, withholding of basic human rights, the imposition of birth control measures and now an arms-for-asylum-seekers deal which amounts to little more than human trafficking, Israel has become a theater of horrors for Africans. A report in yesterday’s Yedioth Aharonoth (originally in Hebrew, and translated into English for their website) revealed…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
July 10, 2013
When Zionism is racism: Ron Dermer and Bibi Netanyahu, on the record
Imagine if a politician in another country had bragged about lowering a minority group’s birthrate – like Netanyahu and his new ambassador to the U.S. did. Ron Dermer, who was named by Netanyahu yesterday to be Israel’s new ambassador to the United States, is known as an even more right-wing Republican version of his boss.…
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Larry Derfner
July 10, 2013
Why soldiers don’t ‘break the silence’ to the IDF
When Israeli soldiers admit their past abuses of Palestinians, as they did again this week, the occupation’s defenders often ask: Why didn’t you report this to the army at the time? A personal illustration of why it is a disingenuous question. I was 37, a new immigrant three and half years in Israel, drafted…
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Larry Derfner
June 15, 2013
Despite efforts to erase it, the Nakba’s memory is more present than ever in Israel
The Israeli Right has been waging a war on history in recent years, using extreme measures to remove evidence of the Nakba from the national discourse. It failed. Yedioth Hakibbutz is the weekly magazine of the United Kibbutz Movement. It is delivered every week to hundreds of Kibbutzim as part of the weekend edition of Yedioth Ahronoth,…
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Noam Sheizaf
May 14, 2013
The heroine vs. the terrorist: A case study in brainwashing
How the ‘newspaper of the nation’ reported on a Border Policewoman’s killing of a Palestinian teenager who was found to have been carrying a toy gun. Yedioth Aharonoth’s coverage of Wednesday’s killing of a Palestinian teenager in Hebron tells you pretty much everything you need to know about how Israeli brainwashing works. And Yedioth, the…
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Larry Derfner
December 14, 2012
The importance of thinking outside the LGBT box
By Leehee Rothschild A recent Israeli celebrity’s admission that he has had sexual experiences with men but does not consider himself homosexual has drawn ridicule from the LGBT community, exposing its own biases and intolerance. My Facebook feed recently filled up with posts by LGBT friends mocking the Israeli singer and songwriter Ze’ev Nehama, who…
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+972 Magazine
September 5, 2012
‘Anonymous decision maker’ advocating war with Iran is Ehud Barak
The top stories in all Israeli dailies this weekend discuss a coming strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Thirty-seven percent of Israelis think President Obama would stop Iran from developing a bomb, while only 29 percent doubt it. The front page headlines in all major daily papers in Israel deal with the increased likelihood of a…
By
Noam Sheizaf
August 10, 2012
Popular anchorman’s entry into politics likely to secure PM’s rule
Yair Lapid left his position in Channel 2 News and announced his intention to enter politics. He is likely to split the secular vote in a way that won’t allow anyone but the Likud to form the next government One of the questions that has dominated the political landscape in Israel in the last couple…
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Noam Sheizaf
January 11, 2012
Flotilla: Even state officials say Netanyahu, IDF spread lies
According to government sources, the army doesn’t have any evidence that the flotilla activists are planning violent resistance, yet it publicly accuses them of conspiring to murder soldiers The top story in two of Israel’s leading daily papers yesterday was a bombshell: The IDF unveiled plans by flotilla passengers to kill soldiers trying to stop…
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Noam Sheizaf
June 29, 2011
Yedioth’s military correspondent: Signs of ‘planned escalation’ by IDF in Gaza
The Israeli government insists that it tries to contain the situation in Gaza, and to prevent unnecessary escalation that would cost more lives on both sides. However, Alex Fishman, the military correspondent for Yedioth Ahronoth (Israel’s leading daily paper) is not convinced, to say the least [Hebrew Link from 7th eye site]: “The Chief-of-Staff, Benny…
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Noam Sheizaf
March 23, 2011
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