Independent Journalism from Israel-Palestine

I think The New Yorker is the only "mainstream" American publication that is even trying to present a non-propagandist and balanced view of the situation, would encourage people to check it out.

I perused the section on the conflict on the site posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38077658

Seems like a decent place to glean info on the historical background.

Writers and contributors regularly invoke the Durban vocabulary, accusing Israel of “apartheid”, “ethnic cleansing,” “racism,” “land confiscation,” “discrimination,” “displacement,” “fail[ing] to prosecute violence against Palestinians,” “perpetrating another “Nakba,” and deride “American Jewish hypocrisy.” (See on Durban vocabulary https://www.ngo-monitor.org/academic-publications/from_durba...)

Founding members include: Lisa Goldman, Yuval Ben-Ami, Ami Kaufman, Dimi Reider, Dahlia Scheindlin, Noam Sheizaf. In February 2022, +972 shared a video on “The dark past and present of the Jewish National Fund.” The video aimed to “challenge[] the myths of the JNF, an organization that has played a central role in dispossessing Palestinians from its inception until today.”

In November 2021, following the UK declaring Hamas a terrorist group, +972 published an article written by European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) Policy Fellow Hugh Lovatt stating that “A motion to label the entire Hamas movement as ‘terrorists’ is an attempt to score political points at the cost of a peacemaking strategy for Israel-Palestine.”

In May 2021, +972 published a letter signed by over 500 individuals “demand[ing] international intervention” to “Stop Israel’s Apartheid!” as well as their “refusal to accept this Jewish supremacist regime.”

In February 2021, +972 published an article accusing Israel of denying vaccines to the Palestinians “who remain subject to Israel’s matrix of domination,” as well as “enshrining Jewish supremacy.” The article altogether ignored that Palestinians residing in Jerusalem are part of the Israeli health care system; that under the Oslo Accords the PA is responsible for health care of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza; and that the PA has adopted its own vaccine policy for its population.

In December 2020, +972 published an article accusing Israel of turning “‘temporary occupation’ into a permanent reality of apartheid.”

In December 2020, +972 posted an article regarding Sheikh Jarrah, writing that “what is happening in Sheikh Jarrah has a clear name: ethnic cleansing.”

from https://www.ngo-monitor.org/ngos/_magazine/