Last month, a controversy erupted in Israel when the Tel Aviv municipality, in time for the new school year, distributed maps to classrooms that showed the Green Line. Although the 1949 armistice lines that formed Israel's unofficial borders at the cessation of the 1948 war are internationally recognized, in Israel the Green Line is a contentious point, seen as incorrectly demarcating between "Israel proper" and the settlements in the occupied West Bank. Indeed, in sending the maps to...

Noam Shuster-Eliassi, an Israeli comedian based in south Tel Aviv, spent her childhood and early adulthood invested in a traditional model of coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians. Growing up in Neve Shalom-Wahat al-Salam, a mixed community in central Israel where Jews and Palestinains live together by choice, Shuster-Eliassi took to peace activism as a young adult, becoming part of dialogue groups and working with a UN subsidiary. Yet she came to find this mode of activism...

Archeology is presumed to be a neutral endeavor, a practice of excavation that merely uncovers clues about the past. But according to Israeli archeologist Yonathan Mizrahi, it's easy to frame archeological discoveries in a way that privileges one narrative or one history over another. That's very much what is happening in Israel-Palestine, and a lot of that is concentrated in East Jerusalem. Until recently, Mizrahi served as the executive director of Emek Shaveh, an Israeli NGO that examines...

When Sahar Mustafah, a Palestinian-American author and teacher, heard about the 2015 murder of three Muslim students in North Carolina by their white neighbor, she turned to writing to process the attack and its ramifications. "It was the kind of event that just rattled me to my core," says Mustafah, who is based in Chicago. "What compels someone that you know, a neighbor, to bring a gun to your door and shoot you in cold blood?" That Mustafah's 2020 debut novel, “The Beauty of Your Face,”...

Perhaps the most enthralling story in Israel-Palestine last month was the startling escape of six Palestinians from the notorious Gilboa prison, using simple tools like spoons to dig a tunnel out of their cells and on to freedom. Although the prisoners were re-captured several days later, their feat dominated Israeli news headlines and captured the Palestinian popular imagination. To unpack the story, +972 editor Amjad Iraqi interviews attorney Abeer Baker, a Palestinian human rights lawyer...

Earlier this month, American ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s announced that will stop selling their products in Israeli settlements located in the occupied West Bank. The company’s decision has sparked an uproar by Israeli politicians, from the far-right to the Zionist left. Along with cries of “antisemitism” and “economic terrorism,” the Israeli government has called on U.S. states to sanction the company through domestic laws that effectively punish any boycotts or divestments relating...

It was in the early days of the Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research that one of the researchers stumbled upon a document that had disappeared since first being published in the mid-1980s. Dubbed the Immigration Document, the 18-page memo authored by an Israeli intelligence officer in 1948 lists the Palestinian villages and towns that had been depopulated by Israeli forces, as well as the ways they had been depopulated. “It says, among other things that some 70 percent...

In late May, Israeli police launched the largest nationwide crackdown against Palestinian citizens of Israel in decades. The campaign, known as Operation Law and Order, has led to the arrest of hundreds of Palestinians who participated in last month’s wave of protests, sparked by the imminent expulsion of Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah, the police raid of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the war on Gaza. The editors of +972 Magazine sat down at the height of the crackdown to discuss what led to...

In this episode, we interview +972 contributor Orly Noy about the shocking display of racism and brutality in Jerusalem last week, when hundreds of Israeli Jews, many of them young men, marched through the streets of the city chanting "Death to Arabs.” The march was organized by Lehava, a notorious extreme right wing organization, after several videos posted on TikTok showed Palestinians harassing ultra-Orthodox Jews. Noy, who witnessed the violence that night, spoke about how Lehava preys...

Amal Sumarin has been fighting Jewish settlement and a discriminatory legal system for years. An Israeli court may decide her family's fate next month.

A forensic investigation casts doubt on the Israeli police’s story of a car crash at a West Bank checkpoint that led to the killing of a Palestinian man.

After years of inciting against Palestinian citizens of Israel, Bibi does an about-face. +972's Edo Konrad and Amjad Iraqi make sense of another election.

Biden is 'no friend to Palestine' — but unlike Trump, he is a target that can be pressured by grassroots movements, says organizer Sandra Tamari.

By obsessing over statehood and relying on foreign aid, the Palestinian leadership has crippled its people's ability to mobilize against the occupation, says scholar Dana El Kurd.

What do Jewish Israelis think about the right of return for Palestinian refugees? According to Tom Pessah, the answer is not what you might expect.

Lubnah Shomali from BADIL, a Palestinian organization that advocates for the rights of refugees, pieces together the practicalities of return.

What does the right of return mean to Palestinians, 72 years since the Nakba? Tarek Bakri’s visual documentation project offers a glimpse.

The callousness of President Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century” mirrors the racism targeting Palestinians in Israeli politics, says Palestinian human rights lawyer Diana Buttu.

Kahanism exposes a larger, inconvenient truth about Israel’s very nature, says researcher Natasha Roth-Rowland.

Maysa Daw talks about straddling the personal and the political as a Palestinian musician living in Israel.

Human rights attorney Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man explains how, in deporting the top Human Right Watch director, Israel has decided to police the thoughts and speech of all those advocating for human rights.

Public opinion expert Dahlia Scheindlin believes the fierce debate over the separation of religion and state in Israel’s latest elections could lead to a liberal shift in society.

In the lead up to elections, Netanyahu has escalated his racist incitement against Palestinians. How are these attacks affecting Palestinian voters?

Palestinian legal scholar Noura Erakat proposes a different, inclusive vision that guarantees justice and dignity for all oppressed groups in Israel and Palestine.