Jerusalem is ultimately a city of eternal strangers. The connection to the city is not a connection to place, but…
Author: Salman Masalha
Since its founding, Nazareth Illit’s name has been tied to that of the Arab city. Now it is being reborn…
Lucy Aharish’s marriage to Tzachi Halevy, which drew the seed purists from their hideouts, exposed the simple truth about…
The country was in a frenzy last week due to the protest by Druze in the Golan Heights against the…
Israel election results: Letting Gantz form Israel’s next government would be poetic justice As a state and as a…
To paraphrase the medieval Spanish Jewish poet, physician and philosopher Yehuda Halevy, it can be said that the long-standing motto…
Every right-wing claim across the spectrum against the Arab Joint List is fundamentally a lie. According to the law, “a…
Ladies and gentlemen, history is repeating itself. The same man who stood on the balcony in Zion Square in November…
As long as the Arab world keeps women down, it will not progress… To grasp the extent to which Arab…
In a new election Netanyahu would be fighting for his life. He would go for broke and try to attack…
As a crude generalization, one could say that democracy rests on three things: government by the majority of the state’s…
Contrary to prevailing conceptions, it turns out that the Arab public yearns to participate in determining the political and social…
Anyone who aspires to lay a foundation for a genuine left must reject this separation. He must break the partitions…
There needs to be public discussion of the relations between the police and Arab citizens. Recently there has been a…
All eyes will be on the best show in the Middle East in the coming days. No, not the presentation…
The most the Arabs can aspire to is to provide indirect help in forging a “Jewish unity” government. This indicates…
Let’s pause for a moment to recall the circumstances that led to the establishment of the Joint List. Fear of…
That’s it. The man has opened his mouth and spoken. All expectations of a new path disappeared with the cheering…
After the results of the election for the outgoing Knesset were publicized, it transpired that the Joint List, with 13…
The whole existence of these parties, starting from the Arab-Jewish “Mapai” party, otherwise known as Hadash, through the “Muslim Home”…
Indeed, this is a very benighted region. The source of darkness is a life lived in myths of the past.…
Time and again, the so-called left fails the civil test. This left seems to be stuck in the same nationalist…
The Old, Familiar Evil Wafting Through the Clauses of the Nation-state Law In the city square, to which tens…
File photo: A Land Day protest in Kfar Arava.Gil Eliyahu The nation-state law has not one but several intolerable clauses.…
Hamas rule isn’t the enemy of the Israeli right. Au contraire, it’s the loyal servant of all the right-wing governments.…
The airstrikes attributed to Israel deep inside Syria, aimed at weapons shipments to Hezbollah or at Iranian bases and missile…
Reflections on Israeli independence day, the Nakba and how the thugs of tribal and religious nationalism from both peoples are…
The Israel Defense Forces are slaughtering Palestinian civilians on the border of the Gaza Strip. Bashar Assad’s regime continues to…
If I were an Arab nationalist, I would pray for Benjamin Netanyahu to be extricated from all the troubles that…
What’s the first thing that meets the eye of those stuck in traffic in the bottleneck at the entrance to…
The importance of Iran’s involvement in Syria is rooted in Iran’s vision of the Shi’ite apocalypse Iran’s involvement in…
The Palestinian president, who comes from Safed in present-day Israel, will forever be seen as a foreigner in Ramallah and…
The Israeli right, in all its forms, wants exclusively Jewish control over all of the Land of Israel. To the…
It is no coincidence that ISIS operates in countries such as Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Libya, which in the past…
Ashkenazi Zionism has always known how to foment trouble, in order to continue holding the reins of power. Uri Avnery…
Excluding a fifth of Israel’s citizens from their political calculations is not worthy of being called the left. The…
Islam Has Never Denied the Jewish Connection to Jerusalem. On the contrary, anywhere you look in early Islamic literature, if…
There was a time when ‘Israeli independence’ was the chief focus of the left’s leaders, Jews and Arabs alike. …
Those who really love this land understand that it belongs to two peoples. Now, before it is too late, what…
Only objective secularists can safeguard the holiness attributed to these sites, to preserve the holiness of humankind, and prevent bloodshed.…
Salman Masalha New Arab city will perpetuate inequality We should oppose the construction of a new Arab city on principle.…