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S. African Jews in Lubya: We’re here to acknowledge the Nakba

Among the ruins of the destroyed Palestinian village of Lubya, a group of South African Jews publicly apologizes to descendants of Lubya’s refugees for their donations to the Jewish National Fund,...

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Gunning for destruction in Gaza: ‘You want to see people in pieces’

36,000 artillery shells, tank shells, mortars, anti-tank missiles and munitions, alongside an ubiquitous use of armored bulldozers, razed streets and districts to the ground during last summer’s Gaza...

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Bennett as education minister: Less science, more Judaism

Bennett’s party website lists promoting ‘love for land and [Jewish] people’ as a top priority; the Education Ministry already announced that fewer classroom hours will be devoted to core subjects like...

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Hundreds of Palestinians displaced in Jordan Valley by IDF ‘training exercises’

Dozens of Palestinian families in the Jordan Valley were displaced last week by huge military drills conducted by the Israeli army. The disruption, and damage left behind, are representative of the...

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A tale of two tragedies: From Beitunia to Vienna on Nakba Day

On Nakba Day last year, Israeli Border Police killed two Palestinian teenage protesters and gravely injured a third. Two days after witnessing one of the shootings, I find myself at a memorial service...

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For Jerusalem’s Palestinians, a city of poverty and division

More than one quarter of Jerusalem’s Palestinian residents live behind the concrete separation barrier; Israel has revoked the residency of over 14,000 Palestinian Jerusalemites since ‘reunifying’ the...

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Playing with fire: IDF to use new weapon on West Bank protests

A new type of sponge-tipped bullet introduced in East Jerusalem last summer has broken arms, fractured faces, destroyed eyesight and killed a teenager. Now a similar projectile is slated for use...

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PHOTOS: Showing Israeli soldiers the red card in Nabi Saleh

The campaign to expel Israel from FIFA makes its way to the weekly anti-occupation protests in the West Bank.   A Palestinian demonstrator shows Israeli soldiers the red card during the weekly...

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Throwing stones, starting fires: Shaked’s first bill as justice minister

A draft law sponsored by Ayelet Shaked would dramatically lower the bar for convicting Palestinians in Jerusalem for throwing stones, and set a penalty of 10 years in prison. The law’s application to...

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How the IDF’s hi-tech revolution cheapens Palestinian lives

The IDF is developing new technology that will eventually cut down on the need for soldiers to go to the front lines. What does this mean for the Palestinians whose lives will hang on the decision of a...

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UN details violence against Palestinian kids, leaves Israel off ‘blacklist’

The number of Palestinian children killed in 2014 was the third-highest of all situations the UN monitored — after Afghanistan and Iraq. Israel and Hamas are left off a list of rights-violating states...

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IDF displaces 10 Palestinian families to conduct military drills

The IDF orders Palestinian residents from the northern Jordan Valley to evacuate their own homes in order to make way for military drills, which have previously damaged farmland and infrastructure....

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A living legacy of displacement

The impulses that drove the dispossession of the 1948 war are still acted on today, on both sides of the borders it forged. A Bedouin woman is seen near the ruins of her house in the unrecognized...

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Israel responds to lone attacks with collective punishment

The Defense Ministry cancels travel permits for 500 Palestinians, and work permits for an entire West Bank village. An Israeli soldier checks a Palestinian man’s documents at a checkpoint outside the...

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One year since Gaza: Why there’s no such thing as a ‘precision strike’

You often hear of an airstrike on Gaza being labeled a ‘precision strike.’ But how precise can a half- or one-ton bomb be when dropped on an area the size of Detroit? Funeral for the 26 members of the...

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WATCH: Israeli forces pepper-spray Palestinian journalists

Israeli security forces attack two Palestinian journalists covering a West Bank march commemorating the murder of Mohammad Abu Khdeir in the West Bank on Thursday. The incident follows numerous...

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WATCH: Police shoot Palestinian man in face with sponge-tipped bullet

The shooting in Shuafat is the latest in a string of incidents in which bystanders — predominantly Palestinian — have suffered severe injuries due to being struck with the projectiles. A Palestinian...

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Want to be a judge in Israel? Get in line and sing the national anthem

The Israeli national anthem, a Zionist hymn that excludes Israel’s Palestinian population, could soon become part of the job requirement for  judges.  Illustrative photo of a man wearing an Israeli...

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West Bank murder: Leaders fail to address nature of settler violence

The murder of a Palestinian baby has provoked condemnation from Israeli leaders across the political spectrum. Yet the harsh rhetoric masks a consistent failure by the Israeli establishment to...

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UNRWA funding crisis puts 500k Palestinian children at risk

A budget deficit of $101 million threatens to delay the start of the academic year in UNRWA schools. At a time of rising extremism, such an outcome could have consequences for states across the Middle...

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