Articles by 972 Magazine
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The Sunday Recap: Horror Stories from Gaza and the West Bank
+972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
23 Mar 2025:
*Scenes from a Ramadan massacre
*Israeli settler violence is rapidly emptying Jordan Valley of Palestinians
*Israel’s return to war is a prelude to mass expulsion
Anyone Who Goes Near the Water Risks His Life–But if We Leave the Sea, We Die
Ruwaida Kamal Amer | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
11 Mar 2025 – Little remains of Gaza’s fishing industry, devastated by the war and years of Israeli restrictions. Yet fishermen are still clinging on to their livelihood.
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Israel Developing ChatGPT-like Tool That Weaponizes Surveillance of Palestinians
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
6 Mar 2025 – The Israeli army is building an AI language model using millions of intercepted conversations between Palestinians, which could accelerate the process of incrimination and arrest, a joint investigation by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian can reveal.
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After Gaza Ceasefire, Israel Turns Its Firepower on the West Bank
Basel Adraa | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
28 Jan 2025 – Two-year-old Laila Al-Khatib is the youngest victim of Israel’s military campaign in Jenin, while road closures suffocate the entire territory.
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Leaked Documents Expose Deep Ties between Israeli Army and Microsoft
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
23 Jan 2025 – Since 7 Oct 2023, the Israeli military has relied heavily on cloud and AI services from Microsoft and its partner OpenAI, while the tech giant’s staff embed with different units to support rollout, a joint investigation reveals.
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For Israeli Police, Humiliating Palestinian Women Is a Tool of Collective Repression
Mariam Farah | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024 – Political arrests of Palestinian women in Israel — who face strip-searches, blindfolding, and doxxing — aim to send the community a clear message.
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The West Bank Villages Wiped Off the Map by Israeli Settler Violence
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
4 Dec 2024 – Over 50 rural Palestinian communities have been forced to abandon their homes amid intensifying attacks, threats, and harassment by Israeli settlers — almost always with the backing of the army and police.
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In Besieged Beit Lahiya, Rubble and Decomposing Corpses Line the Streets
Ibrahim Mohammad | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
28 Nov 2024 – Thousands of Palestinians in the city are facing relentless bombardment and famine as the Israeli army ramps up efforts to ethnic-cleanse northern Gaza.
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Israeli Scholar: Exterminate, Expel, Resettle–>Israel’s Endgame in Northern Gaza
Prof. Idan Landau | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
1 Nov 2024 – Debates over the details of the ‘Generals’ Plan’ distract from the true brutality of Israel’s latest operation — one that drops the veneer of humanitarian considerations and lays the groundwork for settlements.
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Three Israeli Army Refusers: ‘We Will Not Participate in Genocide’
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
Conscientious objectors Yuval Moav, Itamar Greenberg, and Oryan Mueller explain why they are willing to go to jail in order to stand against the war.
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‘Film Was the Best Way to Convey Our Art Amid the Suffering in Gaza’
Ruwaida Kamal Amer | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
2 Jul 2024 – Gaza was defiantly present at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May, despite efforts by the event’s organizers to prevent it from appearing. Shunned Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi organized a protest screening of short films made by Gazans during the war.
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A Flawed Peace Conference Offers a Radical Proposal: Hope
Haggai Matar | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
4 Jul 2024 – In a context of fear, hatred, and violence, an Israeli-Palestinian gathering that seemed detached from reality actually represented something revolutionary.
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Children Starving, Parents Helpless as Famine Consumes Northern Gaza
Ibrahim Mohammad | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
18 Jun 2024 – Famine: With aid blocked and stores empty of basic goods, Palestinian children are being hospitalized with malnutrition and acute anemia.
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‘More Horrific Than Abu Ghraib’: Lawyer Recounts Visit to Israeli Detention Center
Baker Zoubi | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
27 Jun 2024 – At Sde Teiman, Khaled Mahajneh found a detained journalist unrecognizable as he described the facility’s violent and inhumane conditions.
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‘We’re All at Risk’: Doctors Evacuate Rafah’s Last Hospitals
Ruwaida Kamal Amer | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
5 Jun 2024 – Almost no facilities remain to treat the wounded in Gaza’s southernmost city, as doctors fear a repeat of Israel’s attacks on hospitals across the Strip.
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Abandoned by the State, Palestinian Citizens of Israel Face Record Crime Wave
Baker Zoubi | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
30 May 2024 – Amid a proliferation of weapons and worsening police negligence, violence by criminal organizations in Arab towns has reached historic levels.
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‘The Scenes of the Nakba Are Repeating’: Rafah in Panic as Israeli Invasion Begins
Ruwaida Kamal Amer and Mahmoud Mushtaha | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – With Israeli forces entering Gaza’s southernmost city, Palestinians describe their hardships and fears in the Strip’s last vanishing refuge.
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‘The Soldiers Opened the Way for the Settlers’: Pogroms Surge Across West Bank
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
18 Apr 2024 – Armed Israeli settlers raided more than a dozen Palestinian communities under the army’s guard, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake.
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‘Lavender’: The AI Machine Directing Israel’s Bombing Spree in Gaza
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties.
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The Spiraling Absurdity of Germany’s Pro-Israel Fanaticism
Michael Sappir | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
21 Mar 2024 – As repression of Palestine solidarity penetrates every sector of life, the state’s liberal self-image is fast becoming a tragic story Germans can only tell themselves.
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Rugs, Cosmetics, Motorbikes: Israeli Soldiers Are Looting Gaza Homes en Masse
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
20 Feb 2024 – Soldiers describe how stealing Palestinian property has become totally routine in the Gaza atrocities, with minimal pushback from IDF commanders or anybody else.
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Turning Zeitoun into Shivat Zion: Israeli Summit Envisions Gaza Resettlement
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
30 Jan 2024 – Undeterred by the ICJ, ministers and settler leaders made plans to expel Palestinians and ‘return’ Israelis to Gaza in a “Conference for Israel’s Victory” at Jerusalem’s International Convention Center. Thousands of people danced around the hall singing celebratory songs.
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Inside Israel’s Torture Camp for Gaza Detainees
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2024
5 Jan 2024 – Palestinians arrested in the northern Gaza Strip describe how Israeli soldiers systematically abused civilians and combatants alike, from severe deprivation to brutal physical violence.
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‘A Mass Assassination Factory’: Inside Israel’s Calculated Bombing of Gaza
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
30 Nov 2023 – Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest assault on Gaza, investigation reveals.
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Palestinians Fear ‘Slow Death’ as Hunger and Thirst Spread in Gaza
Mahmoud Mushtaha | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
14 Nov 2023 – Israel’s assault has created a severe food and water crisis, with bakeries, shops, and local authorities unable to meet the population’s minimum needs.
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In Hottest Summer Ever, West Bank Sears from Israeli Water Apartheid
Basel Adraa | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
Across the West Bank, Palestinians and Israeli settlers have very different access to water resources — even when they live on the same hill.
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The Violent Lies of Israel’s President
Yuli Novak | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
When members of the US Congress applaud falsehoods about Israel being a vibrant democracy, they are aiding and abetting further oppression of Palestinians.
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Dispelling the Myths about Palestinian Refugees — in Jenin and Beyond
Anne Irfan | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
9 Jul 2023 – With Israel’s Jenin invasion sparking a new round of misinformation, here are the truths behind five hasbara tropes on Palestinian refugees.
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Huwara Reels after Night of Settler Terror under Israeli Army’s Watch
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Palestinians in the West Bank town were left to deal with burned-out buildings and cars after hundreds of settlers ran riot while soldiers protected them.
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‘They Were Burning Our House with Kids Inside–the Army Didn’t Let Us Through’
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
2 Mar 2023 – Children trapped by settlers. A mutilated pet. Checkpoints blocking aid. A Palestinian family recounts the horrifying night of the Huwara pogrom.
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The Theft of Harun Abu Aram’s Body, Home, and Life
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
16 Feb 2023 – Harun was born into, paralyzed, and killed by Israel’s colonial system. The struggle to dismantle it begins in the cave where he spent his final years.
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‘Refusing Is the Minimum’: Why These Israeli Teens Are Objecting to Army Service
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
2 Sep 2022 – Ahead of imprisonment, four conscientious objectors share their reasons for refusing conscription and their hopes of inspiring opposition to apartheid.
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‘All the Questions Were about Israel’: Inside Deutsche Welle’s Purge of Arab Journalists
Hebh Jamal and Lena Obermaier | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
5 May 2022 – When Deutsche Welle fired seven Arab journalists over accusations of antisemitism, many in Germany took its decision at face value. But a closer look shows DW’s investigation was riddled with political motives.
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Why Amnesty Is Taking Aim at the ‘Root Causes’ of Israeli Apartheid
Edo Konrad | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
Amnesty International’s Saleh Hijazi elaborates about his organization’s new report, the Israeli government’s harsh response, and why our analysis of Israeli apartheid needs to begin from 1948.
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The Danger of False Accusations of Antisemitism
Natasha Roth-Rowland | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
7 Jan 2022 – A high-profile Israeli official suggested that posting a picture of Palestinian flags at a protest alongside an open-ended slogan about solidarity is tantamount to anti-Jewish hatred. The insistence of Israel’s former UN Ambassador Danny Danon that the British actor Emma Watson is an antisemite for making said post should be recognized for the farce it is.
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Laying the Foundations for Our Jewish Liberation
Mira Stern | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
4 Aug 2021 – The Jewishness I love is one of a people rooted in collective freedom, in justice, in hereness. What might it mean for us to divest from the projects of Zionism, whiteness, and settler colonialism, while also holding pride in the layers of our Jewish identity?
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Neither Judges nor Diplomats Are Coming to Save Sheikh Jarrah
Amjad Iraqi | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
2 Aug 2021 – It was infuriating to follow the Israeli High Court’s deliberations on Sheikh Jarrah today. The three presiding judges proposed a deal that would allow the families to remain in their homes as “protected tenants” for several years, in exchange for paying a small “rental” fee to the settler group Nahalat Shimon, which has been aggressively coveting the properties with the backing of the police. What the judges described as a “compromise,” however, was delivered more like an ultimatum.
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This Database Is Exposing Decades of Israel’s Shady Arms Deals
Sahar Vardi | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
10 Feb 2021 – Israel has been exporting arms to the world’s most repressive governments. A new project aims to hold it accountable by tracking these confidential sales. There are good reasons Israel wants to hide these sales, since its clientele has involved some of the world’s most tyrannical dictatorships and human rights abusers.
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Why B’Tselem Is Calling Israel an Apartheid Regime, from the River to the Sea
Orly Noy | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
12 Jan 2021 – One of Israel’s top human rights groups recognizes the occupation cannot be viewed in isolation from the goal of Jewish supremacy inside the Green Line. B’Tselem invites the Israeli public and the international community to look at our reality with courage, to internalize its full meaning, and to work to create a different future based on full and equal human rights for all the inhabitants of the country.
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‘I Can’t Fall Asleep’: The Trauma of Israeli Raids on Palestinian Homes
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
2 Dec 2020 – A new report by human rights groups highlights the arbitrary nature and psychological harm of the Israeli army’s home invasions on Palestinian families.
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Why Are Palestinians Being Forced to Prove Their Humanity?
Mohammed El-Kurd | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
3 Dec 2020 – What is happening has a clear name: ethnic cleansing. Over the last few months, the Israeli Court of Jerusalem has ruled to displace at least 12 Palestinian families in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah — including mine. Our homes, at any minute, might be taken by squatters backed by police. If your oppressor is the judge, to whom do you complain?
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Israel’s Army of Archaeological Looters
Dima Srouji | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
1 Oct 2020 – On a recent summer night, equipped with a large flatbed truck and jeeps, Israeli soldiers entered the Palestinian village of Taquu near occupied Bethlehem to remove a Byzantine baptismal stone font. Using archaeology to validate its claim to the land, Israel is displacing artifacts from the occupied West Bank and erasing Palestinian identity.
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Israeli Conscientious Objector Begins Third Stint in Military Prison
Orly Noy | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
21 Oct 2020 – Israeli conscientious objector Hallel Rabin, 19, began serving a 25-day sentence in military prison today for refusing to join the Israeli army over its policies toward the Palestinians. Military conscription is mandatory for most Jewish Israelis. This is Rabin’s third period of incarceration, while her appeal to the conscientious objectors committee is still pending.
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The Dehumanization Is the Point
Sarit Michaeli | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
4 Sep 2020 – Israeli soldiers placed IEDs at the entrance to a Palestinian village. If only we’ll kill, maim, arrest or demolish enough of their homes, so the logic goes, we’ll finally deter them and make them stop demanding basic rights we take for granted: the right to freedom, livelihood, and dignity.
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‘An Illegitimate Regime’: How a Top Rights Group Shed Israeli Myths to Recognize Apartheid
Amjad Iraqi | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
9 Jul 2020 – In an exclusive interview, human rights lawyer Michael Sfard explains what led Yesh Din to charge Israel with the crime of apartheid in the West Bank.
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Over 9,000 Palestinians Displaced in a Decade of West Bank Demolitions
Natasha Roth-Rowland | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
24 Dec 2019 – Israel’s demolition regime in the West Bank and East Jerusalem has destroyed over 6,000 Palestinian structures, displacing thousands of Palestinians over the past decade — over half of whom are children and minors.
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The UN Predicted Gaza Would Be Unlivable by 2020. They Were Right.
Tania Hary | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
31 Dec 2019 – Israel is trying to keep Gaza ‘quiet’ by applying new calculations to make life survivable — without allowing the people to truly live. While revelers around the world are making New Year’s resolutions for 2020, in the Gaza Strip, a different kind of assessment is taking place as Palestinians try to determine whether, or how, they can survive.
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The Fight to Expose Israel’s Arms Sales to the World’s Most Repressive Regimes
Sahar Vardi | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
25 Dec 2019 – In the span of less than 10 years, activists from across the political spectrum went head to head with the Israeli government, trying to bring an end to its arms exports to tyrannical governments worldwide.
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‘My Dream Was Destroyed’: Home Demolitions Soar in East Jerusalem
Judith Sudilovsky | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
25 Nov 2019 – A spike in both home demolitions and settlement building in East Jerusalem is forcing Palestinians out of their houses — and jobs. On 5 Nov Muatasem Abbasi’s home, which he shared with his parents, joined the ranks of the 155 Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem demolished so far this year. The reason: it had been built without a permit. Abbasi, whose home was built in 2011, said they had been trying to get a building permit for years.
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Israel Killed 222 Gaza Protestors Since 2018. Only One Soldier Has Been Indicted
Eyal Sagiv | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
6 Nov 2019 – As Othman Hiles began climbing the Gaza fence, an Israeli soldier opened fire and killed the unarmed 14-year-old. The soldier’s sentence? Community service.
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How Israeli Doctors Enable the Shin Bet’s Torture Industry
Ruchama Marton - +972 Magazine,
14 Oct 2019
7 Oct 2019 – From approving brutal interrogation techniques to writing false medical reports, doctors in Israel have taken an active role in the torture of Palestinian prisoners.
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Unlike South Africa, the World Is Giving Israel a Pass on Apartheid
Amjad Iraqi | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
26 Jul 2019 – A UN Security Council resolution rejecting South Africa’s 1983 constitution shows that there is precedent and necessity to act against Israel’s Nation-State Law.
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I Was Inside This Family’s Home when Israeli Troops Came to Demolish It
A. Daniel Roth | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 – Spending the night with Palestinian families in East Jerusalem, hoping to stop the bulldozers coming to demolish their homes. ‘Our whole lives are here. Where can we go?’
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Everywhere You Go in Gaza, You See People Wounded in the Return March
Rami Younis - +972 Magazine,
1 Apr 2019
28 Mar 2019 – According to figures released by the United Nations this week, since the protests began last March 30th, Israeli forces have shot and killed 195 participants, including 41 children. More than 29,000 protesters were injured or wounded, more than half of them by Israeli gunfire. Some estimate even higher numbers.
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When We Celebrate Israeli Democracy, We Celebrate the Violence of Occupation
Hagai El-Ad - +972 Magazine,
4 Mar 2019
25 Feb 2019 – In democratic countries, elections are conventionally described as ‘a celebration.’ But in an undemocratic reality of endless military occupation, they become an overt celebration of the violence of the powerful.
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Israel Denies Young Palestinian Battling Cancer Exit from Gaza for Treatment
Amjad Yaghi - +972 Magazine,
25 Feb 2019
11 Feb 2019 – The medical care Ahlam Abu Musa needs isn’t available through Gaza’s debilitated health system, but the Israeli army has denied all four of her exit requests.
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Israel Spraying Herbicides inside Gaza Violates Int’l Law, Rights Groups Say
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
9 Jan 2019 – The Israeli army is continuing to spray dangerous herbicides on agricultural fields inside the Gaza Strip, three years since +972 Magazine first reported on the practice. This week, three Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups sent a letter to Israeli military officials demanding they immediately cease spraying the dangerous chemicals into Gaza.
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‘Israel’s Permit Regime Isn’t about Security, It’s about Segregation’
Edo Konrad | + 972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
9 Jan 2019 – The image should be familiar to every person with even the slightest bit of knowledge about Palestine. Hundreds of middle-aged men huddled together at ungodly hours, waiting in interminable lines in corridors enclosed by concrete walls, turnstiles, guard towers, and armed soldiers. The permit system for Palestinians allows Israel to recruit informants, suppress political activity, and create an opaque system of segregation and control. Just don’t say it’s about security.
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[TRANSCEND Member] Uri Avnery: The Israeli Peace Activist Who Crossed Enemy Lines and Shaped Generations
Adam Keller - +972 Magazine,
27 Aug 2018
Adam Keller, who spent 50 years working alongside Uri Avnery, remembers the man who hoped for a warm embrace between an Israeli and a Palestinian president.
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‘Jewish Nation-State Law’: What It Means and Why It’s so Worrying – Apartheid Is a Process
Edo Konrad - +972 Magazine,
30 Jul 2018
19 Jul 2018 – The Israeli parliament passed the “Jewish Nation-State Law” in the early hours of today, defining Israel as the exclusive nation-state of the Jewish people and demoting the official status of Arabic. With its passage, Israel has constitutionally enshrined discrimination against its Palestinian population.
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‘The Law Is What Keeps the Edifice of Occupation from Crashing Down’
Yossi Gurvitz - +972 Magazine,
9 Jul 2018
The Wall and the Gate: Israel, Palestine, and the Legal Battle for Human Rights, by Michael Sfard, Metropolitan Books, 2018, 528 pages. His new book dissects the moral dilemmas of engaging with the occupation’s legal system and its role in making the status quo sustainable.
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Israeli Army Shoots Dead Dozens in Gaza’s Bloodiest Day Since 2014
+972 Magazine Staff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2018
15 May 2018 – Israeli military kills 58 Palestinians and wounds over 2,700 others in Gaza. Palestinians and Israelis across the West Bank protest in solidarity with Gaza and against the U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem.
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One State or Two States? You’re Asking the Wrong Question
Haggai Matar - +972 Magazine,
5 Feb 2018
What we desperately need now is to go back to the basics and recognize that guaranteeing Palestinians’ rights is the foundation for any political solution.
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Dozens of Israeli Teens: ‘We Refuse to Enlist out of a Commitment to Peace’
Haggai Matar - +972 Magazine,
8 Jan 2018
Sixty-three Israeli teenagers have published an open letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu on 28 Dec 2017, declaring their refusal to join the Israeli army due to their opposition to the occupation. “The army carries out a racist government policy that enforces one legal system for Israelis and another for Palestinian in the same territory,” they write.
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Edo Konrad - +972 Magazine,
31 Jul 2017
The violence of the past week, and the media’s coverage of the bloodletting, erased a central aspect of the story: Palestinian mass civil disobedience.
→ read full articleUsing Education to Normalize Horrific Acts of Violence
Gil Gertel - +972 Magazine,
31 Oct 2016
This is how the Israeli education system makes it possible for generation after generation of Israelis to accept the most brutal forms of state violence.
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Riman Barakat - +972 Magazine,
31 Oct 2016
The thousands of Palestinian and Israeli women who marched in Jerusalem and Jericho this month are not only demanding peace from their societies, they are reaching through stereotypes and artificial boundaries to find true partners.
→ read full articleLet’s Talk about What UNESCO Resolution Does Say Instead of What It Doesn’t
Tom Pessah - +972 Magazine,
24 Oct 2016
UNESCO passed a resolution regarding holy Muslim sites in Jerusalem on Thursday [13 Oct]. After “affirming the importance of the Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls for the three monotheistic religions,” the resolution calls for the restoration of the previous status quo around “Al-Aqṣa Mosque/Al-Ḥaram Al-Sharif and its surroundings.”
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Haggai Matar | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
Catherine Hall withdraws from $330,000 prize due to Tel Aviv University’s complicity in the occupation of Palestine.
→ read full articleThis Is How Settlers Take Over Palestinian Land
Dror Etkes - +972 Magazine,
9 May 2016
From audacious fraud and forgery to military seizures for ‘security needs’ and the ‘public good’ to dusting off antiquated Ottoman laws, the Israeli settlement enterprise has no shortage of tools for taking over Palestinian land in the West Bank.
→ read full articleThe Right to Boycott Is Non-Negotiable
Amjad Iraqi - +972 Magazine,
21 Mar 2016
Regardless of one’s views of BDS, it is ridiculous that one should have to tell self-proclaimed ‘democracies’ that the right to boycott is a basic civil right, not a punishable crime.
→ read full articleU.S. Joins the Chorus of Countries Taking Steps to Distinguish between Israel and Its Illegal Settlements
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man - +972 Magazine,
8 Feb 2016
The end of normalcy for Israeli settlements? Stricter trade guidelines, harsher rhetoric and corporate responsibility campaigns all send a clear message: Israel’s closest allies are no longer willing to passively accept the occupation, and the only consensus on settlements is that they are illegal.
→ read full articleIsrael Demolishes Bedouin Village of Al Araqib — For the 90th Time!
Avi Blecherman - +972 Magazine,
2 Nov 2015
28 Oct 2015 – Things have been quiet in the Negev lately. So the authorities decided to take advantage of this period of relative calm and, while everybody’s attention was elsewhere, sent the bulldozers to destroy the unrecognized Bedouin village of Al Araqib — for the 90th time.
→ read full articleThe Day After Is Here: What the Iran Deal Means for Israel
Shemuel Meir - +972 Magazine,
7 Sep 2015
There is one consequence of disarmament in Iran that might come back to haunt Israel: its own nuclear arsenal will be thrust into the spotlight as part of a renewed push for a nuclear-free Middle East.
→ read full articleRed-Dead Pipeline Is the Wrong Answer, Politically and Environmentally
Keren Simons - +972 Magazine,
16 Mar 2015
Pumping Red Sea water into the Dead Sea to save it from drying up ignores environmental consequences, experts warn. Rights groups decry the plan as an ‘attempt to force the Palestinian population to consent to their own dispossession.’
→ read full articleParks and Occupation: Archaeology Is the New Security for East Jerusalem Settlers
Natasha Roth - +972 Magazine,
9 Mar 2015
The Biblical blueprint is being dragged up around our feet, seeking to use what is under the ground as evidence of divine right and the political and territorial sovereignty it supposedly affords us.
→ read full article‘A Consciousness Free of Occupation’: Bil’in Marks 10 Years of Popular Nonviolent Struggle
Haggai Matar - +972 Magazine,
9 Mar 2015
The village that managed to unite the world behind the spirit of nonviolent Palestinian protest marks not only a decade of tear gas, night raids and tragedy, but also of co-resistance and victories in its struggle against settlements, the separation barrier and the occupation.
→ read full articleSegregating the Evening Commute to the West Bank
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man - +972 Magazine,
3 Nov 2014
It’s not really segregation. Not on paper at least. Or at least the paper doesn’t use the word “segregation.” In practice, however, people of one national origin will not be allowed to ride on the same bus lines as people of another national origin — for the benefit and at the request of one group, at the expense and against the desires of the other. Call that what you will.
→ read full articleJailed Israeli Conscientious Objector Starts Hunger Strike
Yael Marom - +972 Magazine,
3 Nov 2014
Udi Segal, who refuses to enlist in the IDF due to its human rights violations in the occupied territories, declares he will go on hunger strike until his release from military prison.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Very Own Tunnels of Dread in Jerusalem
Orly Noy - +972 Magazine,
15 Sep 2014
The Tunnels Israel Doesn’t Want You Talking About – While everyone is preoccupied with the Hamas tunnels in Gaza, Israel continues to dig under Palestinian houses in Jerusalem. The excuses are questionable, residents are angry and fearful, and a religious conflagration appears imminent.
→ read full articleHow Does Sodastream Treat Its Palestinian Workers When the Media Isn’t Looking?
Niv Hachlili – +972 Magazine,
28 Jul 2014
According to Palestinian workers at the West Bank factory, they were provided with meager and unsuitable food at the end of a day of fasting; those who complained were fired immediately. SodaStream: ‘The termination process was done legally’
→ read full articleHow the Public Was Manipulated Into Believing the Teens Were Alive
Noam Sheizaf - +972 Magazine,
7 Jul 2014
2 Jul 2014 – Details under gag order could have suggested early on that the abducted teens were murdered. The government-led campaign calling for their release helped the legitimacy of Israel’s military operation in the West Bank. Local and even international media played along.
→ read full articleTen Reasons That the Anti-Apartheid Movement Is Immoral, Hinders Peace
Sol Salbe - +972 Magazine,
17 Feb 2014
Alan Dershowitz published an op-ed in Haaretz on Wednesday [12 Feb 2014] giving his top 10 reasons that boycotting Israel is immoral. What if he wrote the same article in 1974 about the anti-Apartheid movement? It might look something like this.
→ read full articleThe Boycott Isn’t Economic Warfare, It’s Psychological
Larry Derfner - +972 Magazine,
17 Feb 2014
It does not have to bring the Israeli economy to its knees, or even close, to force an end to the occupation.
→ read full articleSentenced to Life at Birth: What Do Palestinian Refugees Want?
Paula Schmitt – +972 Magazine,
10 Feb 2014
For more than 66 years, Palestinian refugees have been languishing in squalid conditions across camps in the Middle East. But do all of them agree that a return to Palestine is necessarily the best solution? Through her extensive research, Paula Schmitt finds that while different refugees may have different desires, hopelessness remains everyone’s worst enemy.
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Mairav Zonszein - +972 Magazine,
20 Jan 2014
Moshe Ya’alon, the man charged with defending the State of Israel, was quoted calling U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry “obsessive and messianic” on Tuesday [14 Jan 2014]. “They say time is working against us. We should not be alarmed by all kinds of fear mongering,” the “they” apparently referring to Washington and the “fear mongering” to “the peace process” that Kerry is so damn obsessed with.
→ read full articleThe Year Palestine Became a Zero-Sum Game – 1929
Ran Greenstein - +972 Magazine,
20 Jan 2014
After 1929, Arabic-speaking Jews who had lived in peace and cultural affinity with fellow residents, and orthodox Jews who had shunned Zionism, could no longer feel safe among their erstwhile neighbors and friends. Introducing new information and highlighting forgotten facts, a new book by Hillel Cohen brings fresh context to the 1929 massacres in Mandate Palestine.
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