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What Palestinians need from our Jewish allies
We want to work with the Israeli Left to build a future based on equality and justice for all. But not at any cost. Illustrative photo of pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protesters on campus. (Matanya...
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One inciting prime minister and 11 destroyed homes
Hundreds of Palestinian citizens demonstrate against the demolition of homes in the Arab town of Qalansuwa earlier this week. Palestinian citizens of Israel demonstrate at a mass rally following the...
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By siding with the police, the media incites against Arab citizens
The majority of Israeli journalists simply copied the official police version of the deadly events in Umm el-Hiran last week, effectively painting 20 percent of Israeli citizens as terrorists. Israeli...
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A Palestinian woman finds hope in American Jewish resistance
At the progressive Jewish conference of the year, a Palestinian politician wins rousing applause and a former U.S. presidential candidate talks of the injustices caused by the founding of the State of...
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What are Israelis willing to do to end violence against Arab women?
Another Arab woman was gunned down by a masked assailant. What are you, Arabs and Jews who respect the police and just want peace, planning to do about it? Arab women protest the murder of two women in...
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The Right’s plan to beat Palestinians into submission
The good news: the Right has a plan to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The bad news: it’s as racist as you think. Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich at a Knesset committee hearing, November 28,...
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How Bedouin women were exploited to ‘Judaize’ the Negev at NY Fashion Week
An organization that settles Jews in the Negev, and with a central role in the story of displacement at Umm al-Hiran, enlists a famous Israeli designer to team up with Bedouin women for a NY Fashion...
View ArticleThe young Arab women on Israel’s hasbara dream team
A young Arab woman on a propaganda delegation to the United States sparks a storm in the Arab world with an interview in which she praises Israel’s democracy, which she says liberates Arab women from...
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Wonder Women: The Arab feminist revolution on Facebook
Thousands of Arab women on Facebook are sharing, with heart-wrenching honesty, stories of female heroism that don’t always make headlines. Is a new Arab feminism emerging? And what about the new Arab...
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When the IDF protects Palestinians for the sake of propaganda
The army’s new hasbara video is meant to convince the English-speaking world that it protects Palestinians from settlers during the olive harvest, as if the latter were some kind of untamable beasts....
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‘There’s no such thing as a feminist name-change’
When I reverted my surname back to my maiden name, apparently the Interior Ministry decided I was getting divorced. How do you prove that you’re not getting divorced? My own personal brush with Kafka....
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Arab woman MK attacked by Hebrew media for criticizing army policy
MK Aida Touma-Suleiman, a female legislator from the Arab-Jewish socialist party, criticized the Israeli army’s policy toward Syria, warning that it could escalate to a war that would endanger...
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Setting the struggle against gender-based violence back 30 years
A proposed bill to increase the sentences for Arab men who kill women ‘on the basis of family honor’ is not a step forward for feminism, but a step back. Justice minister Ayelet Shaked Gives a...
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The quiet feminist revolution in Arab society in Israel
Despite the hardships, Arab women are making gains in the Israeli legal establishment, local politics, academia, and even in the Islamic Movement. What is certain is that social norms in the Arab...
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Bidding farewell to the voice of Palestine
Rim Banna, one of Palestine’s most recognizable and important singers, died on Saturday after a lengthy battle with cancer. She leaves behind a dream of freedom from the occupation, patriarchy, and...
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When a Palestinian, Muslim woman went on Israeli Big Brother
Shams, a hijab-wearing, Palestinian woman went on the Israeli reality TV show to teach Jewish Israelis about her humanity. She was naive to think she’d succeed, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t...
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Arab women made history in Israel’s local elections. Here’s how they did it
A record-breaking 26 Palestinian women were elected to office in Israel’s local elections. Despite the unprecedented numbers, there is still a long way to go. An Arab woman casts her vote at a polling...
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As a Palestinian woman, it is my duty to support the Ethiopian struggle
As the most oppressed group in Israeli society, Palestinian citizens of Israel have an obligation to stand with the Ethiopian Israelis protesting against racism and police brutality. Israeli police...
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Is the reunited Joint List enough to bring back Palestinian election boycotters?
Palestinian voters in Israel who previously called for an election boycott say they are willing to give the joint slate of Arab parties another chance. ‘Local Palestinian leadership is all we have...
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Arabs in Israel want to join the government. You’ll never guess who’s...
Joint List Chairman Ayman Odeh said he would be willing to consider joining a center-left coalition, prompting a response from Israel’s centrist party that reveals the true face of those who hope to...
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