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Sam Shube

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Sam Shube is the Executive Director of the Hagar Association which operates the only Arab-Jewish, bilingual school in southern Israel, the country’s first integrated, Arab Jewish scout troop, and the Thaqafat Center for Shared Culture in the Negev. He is a member of Kibbutz Nir Am.

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To Overcome Netanyahu, Democratic Israel must Leave Bibi Alone

By Sam Shube
 Sam Shube of Nir Am in the Gaza Envelope argues the prime minister has become less a political... Read more > September 2025

Emanuel Macron's Palestinian Faux Pas

By Sam Shube
 Sam Shube critiques French President Macron’s recent foray into Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. Attempts to kickstart two state negotiations, Shube... Read more > June 2025

Opinion | The Balkanisation of the IDF: A Looming Danger?

By Sam Shube
 Sam Shube resides in a Kibbutz on Israel's border with the Gaza Strip. He argues US sanctions on... Read more > May 2024

Why the Israeli Left needs a New Alliance with Religious Voters

By Sam Shube
 Israeli democracy requires a shift from the politics of selective exclusion to one of strategic inclusion that embraces... Read more > February 2024

Opinion | Beyond the Carnage: Credo of a democratic Zionist

By Sam Shube
 A member of Kibbutz Nir Am near Gaza, and outgoing executive Director of the Hagar Association which operates... Read more > November 2023

‘A lachrymose conception of 20th century North African Jewish history’: A Rejoinder to Lyn Julius

By Sam Shube
 In the previous issue of Fathom we carried Sam Shube’s analysis of Israel’s ethno-political divide and a critical... Read more > March 2023

Culture Wars, Ethnicity and the Future of Israel’s Democracy

By Sam Shube
 ‘Second Israel’ is the key to modern Israeli politics not just to Netanyahu’s victory in 2022. These Israelis,... Read more > March 2023

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