Israel occupation
Is It an Israeli's Duty to Present His Country in a Positive Light?
Should I avoid airing Israel's dirty laundry while abroad? Haaretz’s ethics adviser has an answer
A Palestinian Family Was Farming Wheat, Then Soldiers Arrived and They Were Shot
The Israeli army said soldiers fired at two Palestinians who attacked them with a sickle, but Palestinian reports and witnesses claim the two were shot by soldiers while working their land
After Losing Hope for Change, Top Left-wing Activists and Scholars Leave Israel Behind
They founded anti-occupation movements and fought for the soul of Israeli society, but ultimately decided to emigrate. The new exiles tell Haaretz how they were harassed and silenced, until they had almost no choice but to leave
Opinion Netanyahu in the Dock Doesn’t Make Israel a Shining Beacon of Justice
Preventing annexation while the 53 year-old occupation continues is as fleeting, ironic and illusory a victory as seeing Netanyahu in the dock on Sunday in the heart of Palestinian East Jerusalem
Analysis What an Exceptional Verdict in Palestinian Family's Murder Proves About Israel's Judiciary
When a Molotov cocktail is thrown into a house where an innocent family sleeps, you can no longer hide, blur, repress or deny. Even if they are Palestinians. Even in Israel
What Happens When a 'pro-Israeli' American Student Watches Videos of Soldiers in the West Bank
A new documentary captures the reactions of a young woman as she watches video clips of the Israeli army in the Palestinian territories. But can filmed footage really penetrate our preconceived ideas?
Israel Evicts Palestinian Family Amid Coronavirus Crisis, Despite Assurances
Israeli authorities vowed earlier this month that inhabited illegal dwellings would not be demolished or confiscated until the coronavirus crisis ends
Opinion Will the Coronavirus Make You Empathize With Us Gazans?
When this crisis is finally over, will Israel lift the restrictions on movement that it imposes on the two million people in the Strip?
Gideon Levy The Israeli Army's Plunder in the Service of the Occupation
Soldiers seized tens of thousands of shekels in a West Bank village last week. One man had to cancel his wedding and another lost the payment for a machine he’d sold. Little matter that they had proper documentation
'42 Knees in One Day': Israeli Snipers Open Up About Shooting Gaza Protesters
Over 200 Palestinians were killed and nearly 8,000 were injured during almost two years of weekly protests at the Israel-Gaza border. Israeli army snipers tell their stories
Gideon Levy Gazan Girl Fighting Cancer Died Without Her Father by Her Side. She Won't Be the Last
Miral, a 10-year-old Gazan cancer patient who had to fight bureaucracy to have her mother by her side in a Nablus hospital, died last weekend without seeing her father since December. Now Israel is keeping another young Palestinian, who has leukemia, from receiving vital treatment
Israeli Police Question Left-wing Activist Jonathan Pollak on Suspicion of Incitement to Terror
The investigation was opened over statements the activist made in an op-ed that was erroneously published unedited on the Hebrew website of Haaretz
Pope Appears to Give Thumbs Down to Trump's Mideast Peace Plan
At a meeting of bishops in southern Italy, Pope Francis cautions that 'inequitable solutions' can spell danger for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The Palestinian Village That Never Sleeps (Due to Nighttime Israeli Army Raids)
Nabi Saleh has ended weekly protests, but its struggle against the occupation continues
Israeli Army Blocks 200 Activists From Planting Trees With Palestinians in West Bank
The IDF demanded to know the exact location where the initiative would take place – and immediately issued a warrant declaring it a closed military area
Israel Prohibits Palestinians From Working Land, Citing British Mandate Ruling
Farmers suspect pressure by nearby settlers led to sudden ban based on pre-1948 declaration of area as antiquities site
Opinion Requiem to the Israeli Left's Apartheid Argument
The argument from the left that annexation of parts of the West Bank would make Israel an apartheid state has lost both its moral and political force, and survives mainly today as a form of virtue signaling
Secret Israeli Document Reveals Plan to Keep Arabs Off Their Lands
A document unsealed after 60 years reveals the Israeli government’s secret intentions behind the imposition of a military government on the country’s Arab citizens in 1948: not to enhance security but to ensure Jewish control of the land
Gideon Levy How Israel Is Abusing a Gaza Couple That Just Lost Three Babies
The occupation has wrought havoc with a Gaza couple with quadruplets, only one of whom survived and now fights for her life in a Jerusalem hospital. Their father, repeatedly denied entry, never saw the other three
Here's What Happens if Israel Annexes the West Bank and Lets Palestinians Vote
A binational state with voting rights for all its Arab and Jewish citizens would radically change the makeup of Israel’s parliament. Here's how
When BDS Means Boycotting Israeli Palestinians
Criticism of Jordanian singer Aziz Maraqa, who recently performed in a Galilee Arab village, shows how boycotters of Israel dictate the bounds of political-cultural discourse – and expect Palestinian citizens living in the country to unquestioningly obey it
Opinion Netanyahu Exploits the Holocaust to Brutalize the Palestinians
Netanyahu didn't invent the idea of leveraging the Holocaust for political gain. Yet he is taking even that low to new depths, stripping Palestinians of basic human rights in the name of the survivors of the Holocaust