Writer
Gideon Levy
Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist and author. Levy writes opinion pieces and a weekly column for the newspaper Haaretz that often focus on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. He has won prizes for his articles on human rights in the Israeli-occupied territories.
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Not ‘Apartheid in the West Bank.’ Apartheid
For just six months of its 73 years was Israel a democracy. Six months, and not one day more. This shocking fact, which most Israelis and the wider world repress and truth-seekers have no way of denying, must resound in every civics lesson and every debate in Israel…. Continue reading »
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The media correctly tells us about China’s human rights abuses but not abuses by Israel (Haaretz, Dec 5, 2020)
Israel’s war on Palestinian children. Last week, we were in the Al-Arroub refugee camp, searching for an open area in which to sit, for fear of the coronavirus. There wasn’t one…. Continue reading »
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Israel calls them ‘illegals’ in their own land whilst our media ignores this flagrant human rights abuse.
The dehumanization begins with the blind adoption of the concepts dictated by the defense establishment: Shabahim, for example, an IDF acronym for human beings, literally illegal transients and used only for Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank who cross into and stay in Israel for hours or days, without a permit…. Continue reading »
