Natasha Roth-Rowland
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The far right always has a next target
The growing threat to Israel's LGBTQ community underlines that a state designed to eject a particular group from its midst will always look for new targets. → Read More
How the antisemitic far right fell for Israel
The Israeli right's embrace of Victor Orbán typifies its convergence with a global far right espousing what scholar Jelena Subotić calls 'pro-Israel antisemitism.' She tells +972 why they have so much in common. → Read More
An American sledgehammer in Jerusalem
In his new memoir, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman describes how he spent four years gift-wrapping anti-Palestinian violence in the language of Jewish salvation. → Read More
On the Temple Mount, Jewish fundamentalists are winning the day
This article originally appeared in “The Landline,” +972’s weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. A few years ago, while conducting research on Jewish far-right movements, I toured the headquarters of the Temple Institute in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City. Most of the site is taken up by a museum dedicated to the Temple, the holiest site… → Read More
Staging exile: A Palestinian refugee epic takes its place in the spotlight
Mona Mansour discusses her play, "The Vagrant Trilogy," about the choices a Palestinian scholar makes in 1967, and the heartbreaks that follow. → Read More
Mission failed: How Israel’s anti-BDS app went belly-up
Canadian academic and activist Michael Bueckert spent five years tracking an app used by Israel’s ‘troll army.’ He tells +972 about its activities — ranging from the sinister to the cringeworthy. → Read More
PODCAST: The Jewish comedian calling out apartheid in Arabic
From Tel Aviv to East Jerusalem and New York, Noam Shuster-Eliassi is using comedy to deliver home truths about injustice in Israel-Palestine. → Read More
From J'lm to NY, Orthodox activists are mobilizing against sexual abuse
After harrowing allegations about a revered Haredi educator prompted a painful dialogue among Orthodox communities, two activists discuss the grassroots push for systemic change. → Read More
PODCAST: Excavating Israel's underground settlements
On the latest episode, Israeli archeologist Yonathan Mizrahi talks about Israel's weaponization of archeology to expand Jewish settlement. → Read More
The danger of false accusations of antisemitism
This article originally appeared in the “The Landline,” +972’s weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. We are just about a week into 2022, and already the efforts to redefine antisemitism — or, rather, make the term so self-contradictory and amorphous that it is emptied of all meaning — are continuing apace. Mere days before the first anniversary of the Capitol… → Read More
PODCAST: The role of fiction in Palestinian liberation
Palestinian-American author and educator Sahar Mustafah talks about the responsibility of representing her community to a mainstream audience, the grief of immigration, and writing as a critical tool of emancipation. → Read More
What Israel cannot admit about Jewish terrorism
On Sunday Oct. 24, amidst the fallout from Israel’s outlawing of six Palestinian NGOs on spurious and unproven charges of “terrorism,” right-wing Israelis marked the 31st anniversary of the death of Meir Kahane, the extremist rabbi who spearheaded fascistic American and Israeli groups that themselves have been long banned for terrorism in their respective countries.… → Read More
PODCAST: What will the struggle for Palestine look like under Biden?
Biden is 'no friend to Palestine' — but unlike Trump, he is a target that can be pressured by grassroots movements, says organizer Sandra Tamari. → Read More
An unholy alliance
Two documentaries reveal how the U.S.'s pro-Israel coalition swung to the far right — endangering American Jews in the process. → Read More
In East Jerusalem, the settler project is expanding underground
Elad's politicization of archaeology, most notably through the City of David park in East Jerusalem, erases Palestinians and their history. → Read More
Why the 'Pallywood' myth endures
A lasting legacy of the Second Intifada is the pernicious idea that Palestinians cannot be trusted to narrate their experience of Israeli oppression. → Read More
A moment of reckoning for American Jewish leaders
A spat over a comparison between present-day America and 1930s Germany showed the American-Jewish establishment is unequipped to protect its community. → Read More
The Mizrahi feminist archiving the 'unspoken histories' of Israel-Palestine
Sapir Sluzker-Amran talks about starting a civic archive that centers disadvantaged groups and challenges the dominant Israeli narrative. → Read More
How the GOP brought antisemitism from the margins to the White House
A new website tracking incidents of right-wing antisemitism finds that rarely a week goes by without the Republican Party boosting white nationalism. → Read More
'A different world is possible': Under COVID-19, Palestinian rights groups step up fight
Despite the all-consuming nature of the coronavirus crisis, Palestine advocates say that its laying bare of long-running injustices is underscoring their message of freedom and equality for all. → Read More