This weekend, a coalition of 50 Israeli peace and shared-society organizations will convene in Jerusalem for the “People’s Peace Summit” — a…
Orly Noy
Orly Noy is an editor at Local Call, a political activist, and a translator of Farsi poetry and prose. She is the chair of B’Tselem’s executive board and an activist with the Balad political party. Her writing deals with the lines that intersect and define her identity as Mizrahi, a female leftist, a woman, a temporary migrant living inside a perpetual immigrant, and the constant dialogue between them.
The Hamas attack of 7 October and the war that Israel launched thereafter introduced a new conceptual category of persons to the Hebrew-Israeli vocabulary: the “disillusioned” – meaning,…
In launching its assault on Gaza, the Israeli government had three primary aims: to exact revenge, to restore the prestige of the…