Haggai Matar

Dec 3, 2024 | thenation.com | Haggai Matar

Activism / December 3, 2024 For Those Who Know They Have Not Done Enough To Stop Israel’s War on GazaIt is shamefully easy to keep going about one’s life while Israel continues its onslaught on Gaza with full US support—and it’s absolutely essential to resist that impulse. Ad Policy Palestine solidarity activists call for a ceasefire in front of the White House in Washington, DC, on November 17, 2023. Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images)It’s a Saturday night in late August.

Nov 26, 2024 | 972mag.com | Ben Reiff |Haggai Matar

In her thought-provoking latest book, “Doppelganger,” the author and activist Naomi Klein outlines how the political right has been strengthened by the left’s neglect of certain issues or fields of discourse that directly affect many people’s lives. By simply dismissing those areas of discussion as “right-wing” without offering an alternative ideological approach, the left, Klein argues, allows the right to frame the conversation entirely on its own terms.

Oct 10, 2024 | mekomit.co.il | Haggai Matar

מוצאי שבת. סוף אוגוסט. אני יושב באולם הראשי של תיאטרון גבעתיים עם בני כרמל, בן החמש, ושנינו מתענגים יחד על המופע הייחודי והיוצא מן הכלל "קונטרול פריק" של קולו אור. ואז התחושה מכה בי שוב. אני כבר מכיר אותה טוב. תחושת האשמה, שנובעת מהאי צדק העמוק שמובנה בתוך המצב הזה. אנחנו חיים בתקופת מלחמה, ממש לא רחוק מאיתנו המדינה שלנו הורגת עשרות אלפים ומחריבה את חייהם של שני מיליון עזתים. במנהרות מתחתיהם עדיין יש עשרות חטופים, שהמדינה בבירור ויתרה עליהם, והם גוועים לאיטם,נרצחים אחד אחרי השני או נהרגים בהפצצות.

Jul 23, 2024 | jacobin.com | Haggai Matar

Interview by Magdalena Berger For months, horrifying footage of injured or killed Palestinians has been going around the world. Palestinian journalists show their everyday reality on social media, often reporting on attacks on hospitals, schools, and other civilian targets at the risk of their own lives. No other war in recent decades has claimed as many lives among media professionals as this one. As long ago as March, Reporters Without Borders spoke of well over a hundred dead.

Jul 4, 2024 | 972mag.com | Jonathan Adler |Haggai Matar

At first glance, the Israeli-Palestinian peace conference in Tel Aviv on July 1 appeared detached, almost delusional. And in some ways, it was. With around 6,000 attendees, the event was the country’s largest anti-war gathering since October 7, outside of street protests. As they filed into the Menora Arena, giant screens displayed a video from 2019 about a group of musicians from the southern city of Sderot who teamed up with a group in Gaza to create a joint music and dance video.