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Palestinians still pay a heavy price for Israel’s independence
April 26, 2023

Sami Abou Shahadeh writes in Haaretz on 25 April 2023: Since 1948, the Israeli establishment has been doing everything possible in order to negate the Nakba. But claim after claim, their mythology has been debunked, even by some Israeli historians. Seventy-five years later we know that there were well-documented plans of ethnic cleansing, a political […]


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Far-right party, Likud agree on major plan to ‘Judaize’ Negev, Galilee
December 28, 2022

Or Kashti reports in Haaretz on 25 December 2022: The coalition agreement between Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and the far-right Religious Zionism party specifies that the new government will draw up and execute plans to “Judaize” the Galilee and the Negev, areas in Israel’s north and south, with significant Arab populations. Judging by […]


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Germany just took a drastic step toward criminalizing Palestine activism
December 21, 2022

Hebh Jamal reports in +972: A new report published by the German Conference of Interior Ministers (IMK) that focuses on “prevention and intervention against Israel-related antisemitism” is pushing for further crackdowns on pro-Palestine solidarity, and even discusses moving toward the criminalization of this kind of speech and activism. Authored by one of the IMK working […]


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Israel expands road linking Jerusalem to settlements
December 1, 2022

Fayza Hassan reports in Al-Monitor on 29 November 2022: Israel’s new Tunnels Road, an extension of Route 60, is set to open soon and connect southern Jerusalem to the Gush Etzion settlement complex. The project to expand the controversial route is seen in the West Bank as part of Israel’s plan to expand settlements and Judaize […]


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Israeli-Arab towns are enshrining Palestinian history, one street name at a time
November 17, 2022

Michael Milshtein writes in Haaretz on 10 November 2022: Twenty years ago, when MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash) was a member of the Haifa city council, he lobbied vigorously to have the name of Hatzionut (Zionism) Avenue changed to Street of the Mountain (Al-Jabal), which had been its name prior to Israel’s establishment in 1948. He […]


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The Queen is dead but her colonial legacy lives on in Israel-Palestine
September 21, 2022

Yael Berda writes in +972: Of all the countries Queen Elizabeth II visited over the course of her 70-year reign — of which there were over 120 — she never once set foot in Israel. But she needn’t have; the legacy of the British Mandate continues to have a tangible impact on the day-to-day management […]


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In grave breach of protocol, Chile’s president refuses credentials of Israeli envoy
September 18, 2022

By Times of Israel staff 15 September 2022 In a severe diplomatic incident, Chile’s president, a bitter critic of Israel, on Thursday refused to accept the credentials of new Israeli Ambassador Gil Artzyeli. President Gabriel Boric’s spurning the Israeli envoy appeared to be a grave breach of diplomatic protocol and threatened to cloud relations between […]


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Battle of Naalan mountain: one town’s fight against the full might of the Israeli settler project

Mariam Barghouti writes in Mondoweiss September 16, 2022 On October 26, 2018, the small town of Mazraa Qabaliya just 11 km northwest of Ramallah witnessed a brutal assault by Israeli settlers and their military vanguard. As Palestinian men gathered for Friday prayers under a cluster of brown and green leadtrees, they were met with teargas […]


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Israel presses forward with plan to expand West Bank settlement near Jerusalem (Har Gilo)
September 15, 2022

Nir Hasson reports in Haaretz on 12 September 2022: Israel is promoting a plan to double the size of Har Gilo, a settlement just south of Jerusalem. The new satellite neighborhood is not slated to connect to the current settlement, and opponents of the plan argue the new neighborhood is in fact an entirely new […]


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Why Israel secretly decided to erase the Green Line

Adam Raz writes in Haaretz on 9 September 2022: A media storm sprang up last month over the decision by the Tel Aviv Municipality to hang in the city’s classrooms maps of Israel showing the Green Line – the armistice line that Israel and its neighbors agreed upon in 1949, following Israel’s War of Independence. […]


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