Ghousoon Bisharat
+972 Magazine / August 29, 2025
Orly Noy, the chair of B’Tselem’s board, is a regular contributor to +972 Magazine, and an editor at the Hebrew language media outlet Local Call. In this episode, Orly connects the dots between the unfolding genocide in Gaza and Israeli actions and policies everywhere else in this land and beyond. Orly, who was born in Iran and immigrated to Israel at the age of 9, is also a political activist and a translator of Farsi poetry into Hebrew, and discusses Israelis’ near-total ignorance about the country of her birth.
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Orly Noy connects the dots between the genocide in Gaza, escalating violence in the West Bank, and Israeli belligerence across the wider region.
It’s been nearly two years and Israel’s genocide in Gaza shows no signs of abating. At the same time, Israel has further entrenched its control over Palestinians in the West Bank, and accelerated its persecution over Palestinian citizens of Israel, while expanding the war to Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran. Inside Israel, protests against the war among Jewish and Palestinian citizens are continuing to grow louder, but have not yet reached a tipping point.
Last month, the Israeli NGO B’Tselem published a major report accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, joining many Palestinian and international bodies and human rights groups that had already reached the same conclusion. The report also warned that the genocide will not remain confined to Gaza, and must be seen as directly linked to “the escalating violence being inflicted, at varying levels and in different forms, on Palestinians in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and within Israel.”
Ghousoon Bisharat is the editor-in-chief of +972 Magazine (Tel Aviv)
