West Bank
Israel’s Breakdown
For years, Israel’s liberal elite looked away as the army systematically violated Palestinian human rights in the occupied territories. Now the far right is weaponizing those tactics against the liberal opposition in Israel proper and the state’s authority is not strong enough to resist.
‘Where Should We Go?’
In the immediate aftermath of Oct. 7, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's far-right minister of national security, pushed to relax gun-licensing requirements and increase the number of civilian security teams, while supplying them with assault rifles. The result has been an explosion in gun-toting settlers threatening Palestinians across the West Bank.
Israel’s War Spreads to the West Bank
Inside Jenin refugee camp, Palestinians were living in an active battlefield as the Israeli military took over, turning houses into military bases and forcing women and children to flee at gunpoint.
How Israel’s Occupation Came Home
While the attacks carried out by Palestinian citizens of Israel were extensive and deadly, the overwhelming focus on that violence prevented the emergence of a much-needed debate within Israel about its growing problem of Jewish radicalization.
Among the Settlers in the Holy Land
As I was furiously taking notes, one of the attendees of a tour in city of Hebron whispered at me, “You’re one of those leftists working for an NGO. You’re here to collect evidence of all the terrible things we do.”
The Palestinian Dispossession at the Heart of the Gaza Conflict
At the root of the new conflagration in Israel-Palestine is not the obtrusive violence but the silent dispossession of Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, enabled by Israeli courts, which is foreclosing any chance of a peaceful resolution
Abu Mazen Stacks the Deck
With days left to submit lists of individuals running for the Palestinian parliamentary elections, President Mahmoud Abbas and his loyalists are doing everything feasible to ensure Fatah runs on a united platform. But challengers are emerging to his long-time hold on power.