• How does Israel stop Palestinians from protesting?

    Al Jazeera English, October 19, 2015 Israeli police came to activist Adan Tartour’s home in Jaffa at half past midnight on October 7, and pounded on the door. When the Tartours opened it, police said that they had an arrest warrant. Adan Tartour, 18, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, was put under arrest for “suspicion of violence …

  • Which is the ‘right’ side of the Green Line these days?

    +972 Magazine, October 12, 2015 Thursday morning: I wake up and check the news this morning to see what happened last night and then head to the doctor’s in north Tel Aviv. I’m 24 weeks pregnant — yes, with a Jewish-Palestinian baby. My physician in Florida, where we live now, has advised me to keep …

  • The long road to Bethlehem: part three

    +972 Magazine, July 27, 2015 The New Year comes and passes. It’s January 2014 and I’ve been living in the territories for almost a year. But rather than becoming more comfortable in my new surroundings and feeling like my usual curious and adventurous self—I am the woman, after all, who has traveled some 20 countries, …

  • Israel cracks down on anti-war protesters

    Al Jazeera English, 5 August 2014 More than 1,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel have been arrested by the Israeli police since the country’s military offensive in Gaza began in early July, according to a lawyer representing a number of the detainees. While some have been arrested for protesting the Israeli incursion into Gaza, dozens are …