About Omer Harari

Omer Harari is currently a Master's student at Haifa University's Peace & Conflict Management Studies program in Israel. He can be found on twitter @omerrrr

Articles by Omer Harari

Conflict and narrative

It's being painted in small, nervous brushstrokes now, but if the 3,000 or so people in attendance at the Combatants for Peace Memorial Day ceremony are any indication, it seems there is a new complicated narrative being written.

Body politics and Israeli feminism

Whether or not the Women of the Wall will actually face arrest or detention on April 10 remains to be seen; that they have faced this in the past only to return in greater numbers is a testament to the righteous chutzpah necessary to transform the gendered discrimination at Judaism's holiest site.

Israel and the vertical politics of interruptions

The US President insists that he has come to listen. And in choosing to get around by helicopter and not on the roads, it seems he intended to avert his gaze. But the weather can be unexpected.

Israel: the bus route is the message

Today, walking down Shuhada Street, what was once Hebron's main market appears as nonviolent resistance against the street's new role as a space of separation.

Moving facades

It's not so different from those arguments in a Tel Aviv coffee shop: at the end of the day, everyone goes back home tired of talking but still buzzing with caffeinated irritation. If only they would get up and walk into the streets, so that the people who need to hear them might listen.

How to deal with noisy neighbours

Occupation, strangely enough, is quickly becoming a tactic for Palestinian liberation. That's not to say much else has changed.

Israel: the whirlwind and the butterfly wings

Perhaps someone forgot that Rothschild blvd used to be Rehov Ha'Am: The People's Street, before it was renamed after the tycoon, an irony that seemed to come full circle in that humid summer.

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