Impacts of Privatization on Israelis, Palestinians

Journalist Miriam Berger reports on the impact of privatization policies on Israeli and Palestinian security, labor, and welfare sectors—among the most important, and overlooked, developments shaping Israel-Palestine today.

With the peace process at a stalemate and economic and political malaise deeply afflicting both sides, shifts in power between public and private hands are impacting Israelis and Palestinians in profound ways.

Through human-focused stories about these issues, Berger examines the crises behind the headlines that are too often lost in the standard violence-driven narratives. Her reporting focuses on the privatization of Israeli checkpoints around the Palestinian Territories, the decline in the welfare state and Israel's housing crisis, and the rise in labor unionizing after decades of decline.

Stories

December 21, 2017 | The Nation

Palestinian Workers Are Now Unionizing in the West Bank

Miriam Berger

The political front is stalemated, and the occupation grinds on—but some Palestinians are creating their own facts on the ground.

July 09, 2017 | The Nation

In Israel, a New Tide of Labor Activism Is Fighting Inequality

Miriam Berger

But the movement is up against the country’s powerful right-wing politics and institutional bias against Palestinians.

April 23, 2017 | Newsweek

How Israel Is Increasingly Privatizing the Occupation of the West Bank

Miriam Berger

From checkpoints to settlements, Israel is increasingly privatizing its control over parts of the West Bank. Some see this shift as an attempt to sustain the occupation.

April 02, 2017 | City Lab

Inside East Jerusalem's Bus System for Palestinians

Miriam Berger

While East Jerusalem's bus network is clearly inferior to West Jerusalem's, less obvious is how it’s been privatized as a way to bypass the absence of an autonomous government.

The Impacts of Privatization on Israelis and Palestinians