Of Turbans and Turbines
The country was in a frenzy last week due to the protest by Druze in…
Author Salman Masalha
The City of the Walking Flower
Jerusalem is ultimately a city of eternal strangers. The connection to the city is not…
A government of poetic justice
Israel election results: Letting Gantz form Israel’s next government would be poetic justice As…
The Pillars of Netanyahu’s ‘Peace’
To paraphrase the medieval Spanish Jewish poet, physician and philosopher Yehuda Halevy, it can be…
Israeli Arabs, it’s time to play the political game till the end
Every right-wing claim across the spectrum against the Arab Joint List is fundamentally a lie.…
The Israeli Election as a Racist Festival
Ladies and gentlemen, history is repeating itself. The same man who stood on the balcony…
Taking Arab Society From Darkness to Light
As long as the Arab world keeps women down, it will not progress… To grasp…
Maybe Netanyahu Is Just Sick of It All
In a new election Netanyahu would be fighting for his life. He would go for…
Why Should an Israeli Arab Vote?
As a crude generalization, one could say that democracy rests on three things: government by…
The Israelification of Israeli Arabs
Contrary to prevailing conceptions, it turns out that the Arab public yearns to participate in…
An Empty Zionist Bluff Appears in Galilee
Since its founding, Nazareth Illit’s name has been tied to that of the Arab city.…
Israel’s left is like the right
Anyone who aspires to lay a foundation for a genuine left must reject this separation.…
A police force of and for all citizens
There needs to be public discussion of the relations between the police and Arab citizens.…
Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ Is Another Tragic Farce in the Making
All eyes will be on the best show in the Middle East in the coming…
Good night, Blue and White
The most the Arabs can aspire to is to provide indirect help in forging a…
The Joint List has no right to exist
Let’s pause for a moment to recall the circumstances that led to the establishment of…
Exciting Election? Israel Is Snoring
That’s it. The man has opened his mouth and spoken. All expectations of a new…
Arab MKs must not shy away from seeking power
After the results of the election for the outgoing Knesset were publicized, it transpired that…
Arabs, boycott the election in droves
The whole existence of these parties, starting from the Arab-Jewish “Mapai” party, otherwise known as…
Netanyahu and Nasrallah – Two messianic leaders
Indeed, this is a very benighted region. The source of darkness is a life lived…
No-shows at the Wedding
Lucy Aharish’s marriage to Tzachi Halevy, which drew the seed purists from their hideouts,…
Left, Right – What’s the Difference?
Time and again, the so-called left fails the civil test. This left seems to be…
From Rabin Assassination to The Druze protest
The Old, Familiar Evil Wafting Through the Clauses of the Nation-state Law In the…
Where Is This ‘Israel’ They Talk About?
File photo: A Land Day protest in Kfar Arava.Gil Eliyahu The nation-state law has not…
Hamas in the service of Israel
Hamas rule isn’t the enemy of the Israeli right. Au contraire, it’s the loyal servant…
Israel and Iran: War Games
The airstrikes attributed to Israel deep inside Syria, aimed at weapons shipments to Hezbollah or…
How We All Got Here
Reflections on Israeli independence day, the Nakba and how the thugs of tribal and religious…
The Massacre of Arab Nationalism
The Israel Defense Forces are slaughtering Palestinian civilians on the border of the Gaza Strip.…
Netanyahu’s Disastrous Rule Is a Dream for an Arab Nationalist
If I were an Arab nationalist, I would pray for Benjamin Netanyahu to be extricated…
Trees instead of graves
What’s the first thing that meets the eye of those stuck in traffic in the…
Iran’s Messianic War
The importance of Iran’s involvement in Syria is rooted in Iran’s vision of the Shi’ite…
Make way for Barghouti
The Palestinian president, who comes from Safed in present-day Israel, will forever be seen as…
The never-ending tragedy
The Israeli right, in all its forms, wants exclusively Jewish control over all of the…
Inside Every Islamist Is a Latent Settler
It is no coincidence that ISIS operates in countries such as Iraq, Syria, Egypt and…
Ashkenazi Jews Are to Blame for Israel’s Ethnic Rift
Ashkenazi Zionism has always known how to foment trouble, in order to continue holding the…
The Nakedness of the Israeli Left
Excluding a fifth of Israel’s citizens from their political calculations is not worthy of being…
Solomon’s Mosque is in our hands
Islam Has Never Denied the Jewish Connection to Jerusalem. On the contrary, anywhere you look…
When Arabs Were Freedom Fighters for Israel
There was a time when ‘Israeli independence’ was the chief focus of the left’s leaders,…
Held Together by Bruises, This Land Must Be Divided
Those who really love this land understand that it belongs to two peoples. Now, before…
Zealots Should Not Oversee Holy Sites
Only objective secularists can safeguard the holiness attributed to these sites, to preserve the holiness…
Apartheid city
Salman Masalha New Arab city will perpetuate inequality We should oppose the construction of a…
