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The global movement for Palestinian justice has achieved real gains â in international courts, in diplomatic shifts, in a transformation of public opinion. Yet the official Palestinian leadership remains deeply fractured, ill-equipped to meet the moment. Omar Rahman, fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, makes the case that the Palestinian leadership crisis is a national emergency: those in power prioritize their own survival over any coherent response to Israelâs genocide, leaving Palestinians without a national vision and strategy at the moment they need it most.
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Omar Rahmanâs archive at +972October 7 Exposed the Depth of the Palestinian Leadership CrisisRupture and Representation: The Palestinian National Movement After October 7The full transcript of this episode will be available on our website.
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For generations, Jewish-Israeli children have been brought up in an education system where Palestinians rarely appear as Palestinians. Instead, they are "Arabs," âenemies,â and a "demographic threat" â or, in the words of scholar Nurit Peled-Elhanan, "a problem to be solved." A professor of language and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Peled-Elhanan has spent years documenting how Israeli textbooks erase Palestinian life, mobilize Holocaust memory to produce existential fear, and present occupation and ethnic hierarchy as natural facts of life. As Israel's genocide in Gaza lays bare the consequences of decades of dehumanization, she reflects on what this system has produced â and, having experienced the post-October 7 crackdown on dissent firsthand, what it does to those who challenge it.
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Jaffa was once a cosmopolitan port city deeply connected to the Arab world. Then, within a few years after 1948, it was transformed: most of its Palestinian population was expelled, its institutions seized and repurposed, and the few residents who remained were confined to a ghetto, often in houses that were not their own, under laws designed to make that dispossession permanent. Abed Abou Shhadeh, a community organizer and researcher, comes from one of the few families that never left. Today, he is raising his children in the city his great-grandfather refused to flee. Abou Shhadeh traces how the catastrophe of 1948 unfolded specifically in Jaffa, the parallels he draws between the ethnic cleansing of the city and the genocide in Gaza, and what it means to resist erasure across generations.
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Abed Abou Shhadehâs archive at +972For Palestinian parents, every day of this war provokes existential anxietyThe full transcript of this episode will be available on our website.
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In April 2024, a sixteen-year-old boy named Hassan Al-Qatta rode his bicycle out of his neighborhood in Gaza and never came back. He is not confirmed dead. He is not confirmed alive. He has simply disappeared. Hassan is one of an estimated 9,000 to 15,000 people missing in Gaza. Journalist Mahmoud Mushtaha spent eight months reporting on what that number actually means.
This investigation was produced by the Palestine Reporting Lab, a project of Just Vision. The investigation was published last month in partnership with WIRED and published in Arabic on Raseef22.
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What Happens When You Canât Get a Death Certificate in GazaHassan Took a Bike Ride. Now Heâs One of the Thousands Missing in GazaMahmoud Mushtahaâs archive at +972The full transcript of this episode will be available on our website.
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How has Israeli society become so deeply militarized, and what does that mean for how âsecurityâ is defined? Sahar Vardi, a veteran anti-militarist activist and researcher, traces how militarization shapes everyday life, drives policy, and exports arms and doctrines of control far beyond Israel's borders â and asks who profits, who pays, and why we accept this as inevitable.
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Israelâs arms sales are surging. So why are its weapons expos smaller than ever?
Is Israelâs genocide economy on the brink?
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Israel spent 30 years depicting the Iranian regime as an existential threat, and now it is trying to eliminate it. But if the regime falls, which enemy will it choose next? Meron Rapoport joins us under Tel Aviv sirens to talk about the war's real goals, what it means for Israelâs relations with the Palestinians, and why âvictoryâ may only set the stage for an even bigger challenge.
The full transcript of this episode will be available on our website.
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Israelâs last war alongside an imperial power backfired. This one could, too
Netanyahuâs pardon request is a lens into Israelâs political psyche
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For more than half a century, Israelâs occupation of the West Bank was framed as temporary, even as realities on the ground told a different story. Now, legal experts say recent government measures have pushed Israel into de facto annexation. In the face of these moves, and in the shadow of the genocide in Gaza, the Palestinian Authority has never looked so weak. Longtime Palestinian affairs journalist Dalia Hatuqa unpacks what all of this means and how it is playing out on the ground.
A full transcript of this episode will be available on our website.
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Has Israel crossed the annexation threshold in the West Bank?
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Across the occupied West Bank, Palestinian communities are being expelled at an alarming pace. Violent settler attacks are increasingly routineâand often ignored by authorities and much of the Israeli media. For the past two decades, Oren Ziv has documented these communitiesâ struggles to stay on their land when much of the Israeli press would not. In this episode, he shares how the constant threat of expulsionâwhether from coordinated settler attacks, state policies, or bothâreshapes lives, and explores what acts of dissent against this new status quo can realistically achieve.
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The calculated erasure of Ras Ein Al-Auja
At settlersâ bidding, Israel arrests prominent Palestinian activist
Israeli army, settlers unite in collective punishment of Al-Mughayyir
With West Bank annexation in the air, settlers revel in their impunity
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As violent organized crime and police violence reshape everyday life in Palestinian communities in Israel, and as another election approaches, MK Aida Touma-Suleiman reflects on a decade inside the Knesset ââ and on the moment she decided she could no longer stay. In a conversation about feminist leadership, political exhaustion, and the limits of trying to fight from within the Israeli system built to exclude Palestinians, Touma-Suleiman leaves us to ask: where can the struggle move when institutional politics canât deliver justice?
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Israel is ârestoring governanceâ to the Negev â by terrorizing Palestinians
In Nazareth, holiday festivities mask a âdeep rotâ
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Over 9,000 Palestinians are currently being held in Israeli prisons and military detention centers. While the majority of their names will be unfamiliar to most, the name of one Palestinian prisoner stands out above all others: Marwan Barghouti. Decades behind bars havenât dimmed his influenceâthanks, in part, to his familyâs tireless advocacy. His son Arab Barghouti shares how Marwanâs life embodies both the ordinary struggles of countless Palestinians and the extraordinary impact of one manâs unwavering vision for his people.
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This time of year, Palestinian Christians are often invoked in media and political discourse as emblems of faith, coexistence, and hope, while the political conditions shaping their lives â including military occupation, genocide, and forced displacement â are ignored. Palestinian theologian and lecturer John Munayer sheds light on the Palestinian Christian experience, from Israeli efforts to separate them from the Arab and Palestinian national movements, to the role of Christian leadership and institutions in legitimizing their subjugation. Arguing that religion and politics cannot be disentangled, he explains why Palestinian liberation theology offers not only a framework for resistance but a challenge to the colonial, Zionist assumptions embedded in Western Christian thought.
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Sheltering in churches, Gazaâs Christians face another Christmas under fire
Palestinian Christians do not tolerate life under occupation
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Investigative journalist Yuval Abraham takes us inside his reporting on the systems driving Israelâs mass killing in Gaza over the past two years. He discusses the core challenges and ethical dilemmas of uncovering state-backed atrocities, and why the stories revealed so far are just the tip of the iceberg. Abraham highlights the need to hold powerful institutions, like Israelâs military accountable rather than focusing only on individual perpetrators, offering a deeper look at the mechanisms that produce and conceal systemic violence.
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Over a month into the ceasefire, Gazaâs future remains in the hands of Western powers â with Palestinians largely excluded. Gazan political analyst Muhammad Shehada provides an in-depth look at the diplomatic and geopolitical strategies at play, the ongoing realities of displacement and deprivation inside the Strip, and what this moment might mean for Palestiniansâ political horizons.
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Whatâs behind Israelâs new plan to divide Gaza in twoFollow +972 Magazine:
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In the occupied West Bank today, life looks completely different than it did just two years ago â with unprecedented levels of state-backed settler violence, arbitrary arrests, new road closures, and mounting economic pressure. But resistance, too, is changing. Veteran activist Munther Amira connects this moment to earlier chapters of the Palestinian struggle and reflects on what it means to keep resisting when survival itself has become the fight.
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From the Cemetery of the Living: A Plea for the Rights of Palestinian Detainees
âThey intended to kill usâ: Masafer Yatta reels from bloody settler assaults
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Two years after October 7, Israeli public opinion remains shaped by fear, grief, and a siege mentality. But could the fragile ceasefire mark a turning point â or will Israel slip back into an âOctober 6 way of thinking,â ignoring the root causes of the violence and paving the way for future wars? Political analyst, public opinion researcher, and A Land For All member Dahlia Scheindlin joins us to discuss how Israeli attitudes toward the war on Gaza have evolved, whether thereâs any possibility of a public reckoning, and what it would take to begin a process of genuine political transformation between the river and the sea â from both within Israeli society and the international community.
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How do Palestinians conceive of liberation and hope today, after decades of disillusion, and beyond the narrow language of statehood? In this bleak moment, what forms of governance, sovereignty, or resistance still feel possible?
Zayne Abudaka argues that understanding Palestinian public opinion requires a new approach to polling â one that doesnât flatten or distort Palestinian perspectives. A co-founder and senior fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Progress in Ramallah, Abudaka leads the Instituteâs polling efforts in the West Bank and Gaza, adapting methods throughout the war to reach Palestinians under extraordinarily difficult conditions. Among other issues, he discusses his teamâs recent findings on Palestiniansâ attitudes towards party politics, armed struggle, the two-state paradigm, and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement.
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More journalists have been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023 than in any other conflict since the Committee to Protect Journalists began collecting data in 1992. According to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, Israelâs onslaught has killed 250 media workers to date. Yet despite facing conditions without parallel in the history of modern warfare, journalists in Gaza continue to bear witness. With Israel barring foreign reporters from entering the Strip for nearly two years now, Palestinian journalists have shouldered the entire burden of informing the world about the ongoing genocide, reporting on a story that is also their own.
In this episode, Ruwaida Amer reflects on the difficulties of reporting from Gaza, where the atrocities she documented ââ massacres, destruction, displacement, and starvation ââ are inseparable from her own lived experience.
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Itâs been nearly two years, and Israelâs genocide in Gaza shows no signs of abating. At the same time, Israel has further entrenched its control over Palestinians in the West Bank, and accelerated its persecution over Palestinian citizens of Israel, while expanding the war to Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran. Inside Israel, protests against the war among Jewish and Palestinian citizens are continuing to grow louder, but have not yet reached a tipping point.
In this episode, Orly Noy connects the dots between the unfolding genocide in Gaza and Israeli actions and policies everywhere else in this land and beyond. Orly is a regular contributor to +972 Magazine and an editor at the Hebrew language media outlet Local Call.
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BâTselem report: Our Genocide
Orly Noy Archive
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Last month, a controversy erupted in Israel when the Tel Aviv municipality, in time for the new school year, distributed maps to classrooms that showed the Green Line. Although the 1949 armistice lines that formed Israel's unofficial borders at the cessation of the 1948 war are internationally recognized, in Israel the Green Line is a contentious point, seen as incorrectly demarcating between "Israel proper" and the settlements in the occupied West Bank. Indeed, in sending the maps to schools, the Tel Aviv municipality flouted Education Ministry guidelines.
The episode was a timely reminder of what +972 editor Amjad Iraqi and Meron Rapoport, an editor at Local Call, argued in a pair of essays they wrote for The Nation in August: that the Green Line, both as a result of Palestinian grassroots resistance and Israeli efforts to undermine the idea that the West Bank is a separate entity, is gradually becoming irrelevant.
You can read Iraqi and Rapoport's pieces at +972 Magazine here and here, or at The Nation here and here.
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Noam Shuster-Eliassi, an Israeli comedian based in south Tel Aviv, spent her childhood and early adulthood invested in a traditional model of coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians. Growing up in Neve Shalom-Wahat al-Salam, a mixed community in central Israel where Jews and Palestinains live together by choice, Shuster-Eliassi took to peace activism as a young adult, becoming part of dialogue groups and working with a UN subsidiary.
Yet she came to find this mode of activism inadequate, she told the +972 Podcast. "I got to a very extreme point where I couldn't deal anymore with how much we were not making any progress in humanitarian work and in the NGO world."
Turning to stand-up comedy, she said, not only helped her feel less alone in struggling against the situation in Israel-Palestine, but also helped the trilingual Shuster-Eliassi â she speaks Hebrew, Arabic, and English â express herself in the way that she wanted. "[Comedy] released my voice. It made me say the things that I dreamed of saying, it made me reach the people I'm dreaming of reaching â it made me speak in all the languages that I know."
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The audio clips in this episode are taken from the short documentary "Reckoning With Laughter," directed by Amber Fares and produced by Rachel Leah Jones. "Reckoning With Laughter" can be watched at either Al Jazeera or The New Yorker.
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