Yasmin Zaher is a news editor at Haaretz and a fiction writer. Twitter: @ZaherYasmin
Globalvision will take place at the same time as the Eurovision, featuring Palestinian, Israeli and international artists. One performer calls it a ‘nonviolent alternative focusing on unity and raising awareness’
BDS activists have denounced Israel for hosting the song contest, calling it 'whitewashing through arts'
Kamal Aljafari was born in Ramle but works from Berlin. In a conversation with Haaretz, he explains how his work is about the place he left: ‘I use cinema as an act of reclamation’
There were strikes and protests this month in Ramallah – and they weren't against the occupation. Palestinian workers demanded Israel keep their hard-earned social security payments rather than entrust them to the 'safekeeping' of its nepotistic proxy – the Palestinian Authority