The Israeli state sees violent settler mobs as challenging its monopoly over violence. This puts right-wing ministers like Itamar Ben-Gvir in a bind: settlers facilitate the settlement project, but the state wants to control it.
A member of the steering committee for Itamar Ben-Gvir’s prospective private militia wants to eliminate the distinction between civilians and noncombatants — not just for Palestinians, but also between Israeli settlers and the army.
The Palestinian call for BDS is a challenge to colonial infrastructures of knowledge and an invitation to help remake them. This challenge is central to our work as anthropologists in moving past colonial social science.
The transfer of unprecedented powers over the occupied West Bank to Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich has deepened the rift between Israel’s military-security establishment and the rising settler bloc.
Following calls for escalation from Israeli political leaders, Israeli settlers have launched a series of attacks on West Bank villages in the last 24 hours which have killed one Palestinian and injured dozens of others.
Amit Halevi, a member of Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party, has proposed dividing the Al-Aqsa Mosque between Jews and Muslims. Such plans can no longer be disregarded as extremist fantasies but increasingly represent mainstream Israeli politics.
Once again, the U.S. mainstream media tries to hide Israel’s provocative Jewish-supremacists, even when they are government officials.
At least one prominent representative at CIJA, a Canadian pro-Israel lobbying group, has spoken approvingly of certain elements of the new Israeli government’s agenda.
Yumna Patel speaks with Dr. Yara Hawari about Israeli protests against an overhaul to the judicial system, and what they mean for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation and apartheid.
Benjamin Netanyahu temporarily halted reforms he sought to make to Israel’s judicial system, but critics say Palestinians will pay the ultimate price as the far-right continues to consolidate power.