The myth of Israel’s liberal Supreme Court exposed
Little more than a decade ago, in a brief interlude of heady optimism about the prospects of regional peace, the Israeli Supreme Court issued two landmark rulings that, it was widely assumed, heralded...
View ArticleWelcome to Nazareth
Nazareth found itself transformed twice-over by the 1948 war. A town of 13,000 more than doubled in size over the course of a few months as 15,000 refugees from nearby villages poured in seeking...
View ArticleAs Bedouin villages are destroyed, so too are hopes for Palestinian peace deal
In what was billed as a “day of rage”, thousands of Palestinians took to the streets to protest against a plan to uproot tens of thousands of Bedouin from their ancestral lands inside Israel, in the...
View ArticlePalestinians in Israel: Trapped in the ghetto
Salah Sawaid remembers when this huddle of shacks was surrounded by open fields. Today, his views from the grassy uplands of the central Galilee are blocked on all sides by luxury apartments – a new...
View ArticleArab village fears being wiped off Israel’s map
Israel’s supreme court is to decide next week whether Dahmash village is wiped off the map. For decades officials have refused to recognise its 70 homes, just 20 minutes’ drive from Tel Aviv. Arafat...
View ArticleIsraeli court says Arab village must make way for Jewish town
Israel’s Palestinian minority is preparing to hold a 'day of rage' to protest against a supreme court ruling last week that cleared the way to destroy an entire Bedouin village so that it can be...
View ArticleIsrael’s Arab citizens fight for a roof over their heads
The Israeli authorities razed Tareq Khatib's home for the second time in two months last week. Now under house arrest at a friend’s home, he expects to be billed hundreds of thousands of dollars to...
View ArticleFury at Israeli plan to build town on historic Muslim village
An Israeli government plan to build hundreds of homes for the country’s Druze population faces stiff opposition after it was revealed that the new community would be located on the lands of Palestinian...
View ArticleIsrael accused of trickery to snatch refugee lands
Palestinian leaders in Israel have warned that they suspect the Israeli government is behind recent efforts to trick the families of refugees from the 1948 war into signing away the rights to their...
View ArticleIn Umm al-Hiran, it is a ‘continuing Nakba’
Israeli police have refused to return the body of Yacoub Abu al-Qiyan, two days after he was shot dead during a pre-dawn raid to bulldoze his home and those of another dozen families in Umm al-Hiran....
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