Hagai El-Ad

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Feb 24, 2025, 1:45 PM

Desert Reflections: Life, Loss, and the Israel Trail

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The Israel Trail makes its way north, from the foot of Mt Tzafahot on the Eilat shore, to the heart of the Negev. Here, the vast desert fills the horizon, and the heart expands. Kilometers fly by as one...

Nov 9, 2023, 12:07 AM

Words too poor to describe

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Israelis my age (I was born in Haifa in 1969) grew up and matured here, in the years following that fifty-years-old war, the one whose sirens yelled on Yom Kippur. The war that just recently, on the occasion of...

Oct 17, 2018, 3:34 PM

Why I’m speaking against the occupation at the UN Security Council

Israeli soldiers search Palestinian man at the Hawara checkpoint south of the West Bank city of Nablus on October 11, 2018, after a stabbing attack nearby. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Control of the West Bank is inherently an international matter, not an internal Israeli issue

Sep 25, 2018, 10:45 AM

Supreme service on behalf of the Occupation

Palestinian protesters chant slogans and confront Israeli forces on September 14, 2018, as they demonstrate against the blocking of the road leading to the Palestinian Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank. (AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI)

The ruling by the Supreme Court justices attests to a fake reality masking a truth that is morally and legally repugnant

Apr 22, 2018, 3:35 PM

‘Every soldier is duty-bound to disobey a manifestly illegal order’

Illustrative: Black smoke rises from tires burned by Gaza protesters at the border with Israel, with Israeli soldiers seen in the foreground, April 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Global geopolitical consequences means that injustice anywhere is a palpable threat to justice everywhere

May 16, 2017, 2:24 PM

A mole on the face of the occupation

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The outcry against an op-ed's wording is a distraction from Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians

Dec 15, 2016, 2:14 PM

A fighting match among thieves

Israel is functionally hypocritical and colonial, when it comes to Amona and the fundamentally unlawful settlement enterprise

Oct 23, 2016, 2:33 PM

While Bibi was busy slamming me on Facebook

Instead of railing about a UN appearance, Netanyahu should be addressing the immorality of occupation

Jan 24, 2012, 3:08 PM

The shadows that grow shorter

The recent rejection by the Israeli High Court of Justice of the final petitions against Israel's Citizenship Law – which denies status in Israel to Palestinian spouses of Israeli citizens – was described as a 'watershed' ruling. But how exactly?

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Former executive director of B'Tselem, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), and the Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance (JOH).

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