Writer
Gideon Levy
Gideon Levy is a Haaretz columnist and a member of the newspaper's editorial board. Levy joined Haaretz in 1982, and spent four years as the newspaper's deputy editor. He was the recipient of the Euro-Med Journalist Prize for 2008; the Leipzig Freedom Prize in 2001; the Israeli Journalists’ Union Prize in 1997; and The Association of Human Rights in Israel Award for 1996. His new book, The Punishment of Gaza, has just been published by Verso.
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A monstrous Gaza proposal is evil in plain sight
Giora Eiland is one of the “thinking officers” in the Israeli Defence Forces. He has an idea – epidemics in Gaza are good for Israel. “After all, severe epidemics in the southern Strip will bring victory closer and reduce fatalities among IDF soldiers.” One only has to wait for the daughters of Hamas’ leaders to Continue reading »
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Israel can’t imprison two million Gazans without paying a cruel price
Behind all this lies Israeli arrogance; the idea that we can do whatever we like, that we’ll never pay the price and be punished for it. We’ll carry on undisturbed. Continue reading »
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When will Israel seek forgiveness for its crimes against Palestinians?
Over the weekend, Israel marked Yom Kippur when it is supposed to atone for its collective sins. Yet Israel never thinks to ask for forgiveness from its biggest victims: the Palestinians. Continue reading »
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Enough carrots. It’s time for the U.S. to use sticks to change Israeli Policy
It’s hard to know whether to cry or laugh reading the highlights of the hour-long conversation Joe Biden had with the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman on Tuesday, after meeting President Isaac Herzog. Continue reading »
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Zionist protesters in Tel Aviv forgot their Palestinian neighbours
The classmates of 7-year-old Rayan Suleiman sit near his body during the boy’s funeral in Tuqu, a village south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Continue reading »
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So now you’re appalled over the Israeli killing of an American journalist?
The relative horror expressed over the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh is justified and necessary. It is also belated and self-righteous. Now you’re appalled? The blood of a famous journalist, no matter how brave and experienced she was – and she was – is no redder than the blood of an anonymous high school student Continue reading »
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One SWIFT motion and the Israeli occupation is over
Imagine that Israel is invading the Gaza Strip once more. The usual killing, destruction and ruin. Continue reading »
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The Israeli kettle and the Russian pot
Israel has no right to criticize Russia. A country that has more than once acted exactly like Russia, going wild, has no right to criticize aggression and invasion. Continue reading »
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The Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is establishing an apartheid state
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has no intention of allowed the establishment of a Palestinian state. He has chosen apartheid. Continue reading »
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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 »
