Ben White

@benabyad

Journalist, analyst, author. Bylines include ; Contributor ; New book:

Cambridge, England
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Joined February 2011
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    20 May 2018

    Today's the day - my new book is published! 'Cracks in the Wall: Beyond Apartheid in Palestine/Israel' is available via Pluto Press directly or on Amazon. For more information visit the book's website -

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  2. 23 minutes ago

    "While the term 'apartheid' remains controversial, those advocating it in practice are able to do so without much controversy precisely because it is what already exists on the ground." My new op-ed on Israeli minister Rafi Peretz and *that* interview.

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  3. 6 hours ago

    Dozens of Palestinian homes in Sur Baher await demolition - with the approval of Israel's Supreme Court. Often attacked by the Israeli right, is the Court in fact a pillar of occupation? My new analysis piece, with

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    22 hours ago

    "Israel will allow a six-year-old boy to leave the Gaza Strip and move to the West Bank where his family lives... after two and a half years of denying the request."

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  5. 9 hours ago

    New poll shows Avigdor Lieberman "still holding the deciding say in coalition negotiations" with Yisrael Beiteinu rising to 10 seats.

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  6. 9 hours ago

    Disagreements between Israeli army & COGAT, on the one hand, and Shin Bet, on the other, over proposal to allocate work permits for 5,000 Palestinians from Gaza.

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  7. 9 hours ago

    Case in point - EU officials condemn "Israel’s settlement policy, illegal under international law and actions taken in that context, such as forced transfers, evictions, demolitions and confiscations of homes". But still no actual accountability.

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  8. 9 hours ago

    Foreign diplomats tour Palestinian buildings in Sur Baher given demolition orders by Israeli occupation authorities. Palestinian official: "we're looking for serious actions from your gov'ts to stop these continuous crimes". Don't hold your breath sadly

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  9. 9 hours ago

    Visiting Ariel settlement, Barak lays out grimly familiar vision. - key goal: a "solid Jewish majority" - annexation of major settlements - Israeli control of entire West Bank for "foreseeable future" - Palestinian 'state' only when "conditions are ripe"

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  10. 22 hours ago

    "Adam's case is one of many, as Israel does not allow Palestinians to move from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank or change their addresses to the West Bank, except in exceptional circumstances." But Gaza's not occupied, right?

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  11. 22 hours ago

    "Israel will allow a six-year-old boy to leave the Gaza Strip and move to the West Bank where his family lives... after two and a half years of denying the request."

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  12. 22 hours ago

    Unite the Union joins the Boycott HP campaign over company's provision of "equipment and technology for Israel’s army and police", as well as "for the population database that Israel uses to enforce its system of racial segregation". via

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  13. 22 hours ago

    Saturday: Israeli naval forces attack Palestinian fishermen working off coast of the occupied Gaza Strip Monday: Israeli forces conduct fresh incursion into Gaza, level land - & also attack fishermen again

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  14. 23 hours ago

    "Israeli occupation forces detained 2,759 Palestinians during the first six months of this year"

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  15. 23 hours ago

    "The Palestinian Prisoners' Centre for Studies said Taqatqa's death meant that the number of Palestinian prisoners who have died in Israeli prisons since 1967 has risen to 220. According to Addameer...there are currently 5,250 prisoners in Israeli jails, including 205 children".

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  16. 23 hours ago

    "Taqatqa's family confirmed to local media that Nassar did not have any health problems...[he] was still undergoing interrogation and had not been charged with anything".

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  17. 23 hours ago

    Palestinian prisoner Nassar Taqatqa (31), held in solitary confinement in an Israeli prison, has died barely a month after his arrest by occupation forces.

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    Jul 15

    In TV interview Saturday, Israeli minister Rafi Peretz said he believes in gay conversion therapy, & urged annexation of West Bank without citizenship or voting rights for Palestinians. Guess which prompted widespread condemnation?

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  19. Jul 15

    "The Israeli surveillance operation in the West Bank is...among the largest of its kind in the world. It includes monitoring the media, social media & the population as a whole - and now it turns out also the biometric signature of West Bank Palestinians”.

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  20. Jul 15

    On Friday, an Israeli soldier shot a 10-year-old Palestinian child in the head suppressing protests in in Kafr Qaddum, seriously injuring him. According to doctors, Abdul Rahman Shteiwi has "more than 100 fragments" in his head.

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  21. Jul 15

    In TV interview Saturday, Israeli minister Rafi Peretz said he believes in gay conversion therapy, & urged annexation of West Bank without citizenship or voting rights for Palestinians. Guess which prompted widespread condemnation?

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