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Michael Sfard and Oren Yiftachel write in Haaretz on 6 September 2022: The laudable decision of the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality to hang maps in classrooms showing the Green Line – the internationally recognized border between Israel and the West Bank – has created a storm. The Education Ministry and the State Mapping Center have opposed […]

Eitan Nechin writes in Haaretz on 28 August 2022: This week, kids from all over Israel will start a new school year. They’ll be learning all the usual subjects: history, literature, math, English. But there’s one subject the Education Ministry insists will not be in this year’s curriculum: the truth. The truth about living in […]

Gideon Levy and Alex Levac report in Haaretz Jul 16, 2022 One afternoon this week, an elderly man leaning on a cane climbed the long dirt path that leads to his West Bank home. The sun was broiling hot, and the man proceeded lethargically, stopping from time to time to rest in the shade of […]

Ahmad Melhem reports in Al-Monitor on 2 July 2022: Hamas accused security forces in the West Bank of escalating “political detention crimes based on political opinions or resistance to the occupation.” In a statement released June 14, Hamas said the arrests were coupled with “atrocious torture and inhuman treatment denigrating detainees and their families.” Hamas […]

Ben Reiff writes in +972 June 23, 2022 The depopulated Palestinian village of Mi’ar lies some 17 kilometers east of Acre in the north of Israel. It doesn’t appear on modern maps, and there are no road signs to direct you to all that remains of the village today: two cemeteries, the larger one surrounded […]

Yuval Abraham reports in +972 May 25, 2022 This article was published in partnership with Local Call. Yaakov Havakook, an anthropologist and former member of Israel’s Defense Ministry, had no idea that a book he wrote 40 years ago had sealed the fate of over 1,000 Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank today. In […]

Nir Hasson reports in Haaretz May. 29, 2022 Only 5 percent of Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem – 18,982 people – have obtained Israeli citizenship since the city was reunified in 1967. The figure comes from a response by Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked to a parliamentary inquiry from MK Mossi Raz of Meretz. Only 34 […]

Nir Hasson reports in Haaretz on 14 March 2022: Few remember the brief period, spanning just a few months in 1948-49, when the cease-fire line between Israel and Jordan ran through the Little Triangle – a concentration of Arab towns in north-central Israel, roughly bounded by Baka al-Garbiyeh, Taibeh and Tira. Even the two families […]

‘Original and illuminating … What a good book this is’ Jonathan Dimbleby, author and documentary maker In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. Maps divide the walled Old City into four quarters, yet that division doesn’t reflect the reality of mixed and diverse neighbourhoods. Beyond the crush and frenzy […]

Jim Miles writes in The Palestine Chronicle: A recent seminar from the group “Visualizing Palestine” served to present four graphic representations of environmental problems within Israel/Palestine. The graphics are self-explanatory and need no review here – they are after all graphic, and speak well for themselves. The discussion talked around the graphics, what they emphasized […]