‘By arresting an icon with a wide following, authorities send a chilling message that no one is safe. [It] demonstrates how they weaponize fear and fame to silence Palestinian voices.’

Mariam Farah reports on repression of Palestinian artists in Israel.

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Death threats, arrests, and self-censorship are creating a repressive environment for Palestinian cultural figures and institutions in Israel.

By Mariam Farah.

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Even after leaving Gaza, journalist Mahmoud W. 🇵🇸  writes about how the war has not left him, especially with family members left behind
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Palestinian artists stifled as Israel ‘weaponizes fear and fame.’

By Mariam Farah.

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“Israeli politicians and commentators like to say that “Arabs only understand violence,” and that force is the political language of the Middle Eastern “neighborhood.” But history suggests that it’s not the neighborhood that responds to force; it’s us”
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‘There is a real possibility that in return for Israel de-escalating with Iran, the United States may give Israel a freer hand in Gaza, specifically with regard to Rafah,’ Khaled Elgindy tells Ghousoon Bisharat.

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‘Under countless international agreements, embassies have an inviolable right to protection. When this right is violated, conflicts and wars quickly escalate. The past 50 years provide no shortage of examples of this,’ writes Lior Sternfeld. שיחה מקומית

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Half a year on, it is abundantly clear that, for Palestinians, this war has been a catastrophe on a scale equal to or even greater than the 1948 Nakba.

For Israelis, it has been a total failure even on their own terms, writes Haggai Matar. שיחה מקומית

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‘The soldiers opened the way for the settlers’: Pogroms surge across the West Bank.

Oren Ziv reports. שיחה מקומית

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I left my family in Shuja’iya, crossed an Israeli army checkpoint, and spent weeks in a tent in Rafah in order to leave the Gaza Strip. The decision still haunts me.

By Mahmoud W. 🇵🇸 .

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THIS is what fascism looks like: Israeli settlers, pogroms, burnt books: 'In his former office, settlers set alight many books, including religious books and poetry. “This is my archive,” he lamented. “Who burns books?' 972mag.com/pogroms-west-b…

'The chances of a violent settler being brought to justice under Israeli law...are extremely low: since 2005, only 3 percent of Israeli police files opened regarding settler violence ended in conviction.' 972mag.com/pogroms-west-b…

Pertinent critique by Natasha Roth-Rowland. I've heard that a growing number of commanders in ISR officer corps are also religious/ultranationalist. Can anyone confirm? Big implications if so.
'The unexceptional violence of Israel’s ‘Haredi battalion’ ' 972mag.com/netzah-yehuda-…

This is the Israeli unit that the Biden admin may sanction -- after Blinken sat on that recommendation for months.

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This is a good explainer on the IDF's Netzah Yehuda battalion, and why focusing only on it and not the system, is part of the problem 972mag.com/netzah-yehuda-…

I wrote a while back about the Israeli army’s Netzah Yehuda battalion, which the U.S. is set to sanction. Bottom line: the unit’s appalling violence is no aberration - it reflects the system that produced it, as the horrors in Gaza make clear

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I wasn’t just leaving behind a piece of land, but leaving behind my roots, my identity, and my loved ones.

My latest for +972 Magazine

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‘One member of this family must survive after the war, so that our name doesn’t get wiped off the population registry,’ my father said, hiding his tears, when I told him I was considering leaving Gaza.

By Mahmoud W. 🇵🇸 .

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