This article was written before the warfare of May 2021 It has been over 400 years since the first group of slaves from Africa arrived on the shores of Virginia, and yet, against the backdrop of racial tensions between whites…
It started with the TikTok of Palestinian youth, and escalated to an unprecedented exchange of fire between Hamas and Israel. This is not a classic war, because while the leaders take care to be protected and guarded, the residents of…
The oppressive permit regime imposed on Palestinian workers must be abolished. When the black movement in the United States raised the slogan “let us breathe”, for us here, in our struggle for rights of Palestinian workers it was a natural…
Sometime in late October 2020, I wrote an article entitled “And the winner is … Bennett.” This was at the height of the Balfour demonstrations, which aroused the false sense that young people had finally risen up to overthrow Bibi.…
On Thursday, February 11, the DAAM Party held a public debate focused on Jerusalem. The discussion presented a difficult and alarming picture of a divided city in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinian residents live in extremely difficult conditions. Conversely,…
Knesset member Mansour Abbas, who recently split off from the Arab Joint List, dropped a powerful bomb when he said, “Religious principles are no less important than [Arab] national principles.” The utterance has not yet been answered by Abbas’ former…
The “Arab sector,” as it is called in Israeli jargon, has returned to the headlines, and in a big way. This did not occur because of Azmi Bishara’s provocative statements, or because of Hanin Zoabi’s participation in the Mavi Marmara…
As we enter the fourth round of elections in two years, there exists a misconception that nothing has changed. The argument is that Bibi remains Bibi, and if the fourth round does not help him, we will go to a…
In a Haaretz opinion piece of December 9, 2020 (“Let the public elect the leaders of the Left”), Stav Shaffir, a leader of the 2011 social protest and former Labor MK, calls for the establishment of the “Israeli Democratic Party.”…
In his victory speech, Joe Biden, the President-Elect of the United States, did not forget to thank the ones to whom he owed his victory – his black supporters. Pounding on the podium, he said “You’ve always had my back…
