Amjad Iraqi

Amjad Iraqi is an editor at +972 Magazine and a policy analyst at the think tank Al-Shabaka.

Enemy Citizens

Amjad Iraqi, 4 February 2016

Two Arab teenagers​ who had been arrested at an anti-government protest were waiting to see a lawyer at a police station in Nazareth, the largest Arab city in Israel. Their shirts were torn and their arms, legs and faces were covered in cuts and bruises. The lawyer turned to a police officer and demanded an explanation. The officer denied any wrongdoing: the police, he said, had used...

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