Lia Tarachansky: Israeli police target activists as social protests restart
On Saturday Israelis organized the first demonstration of what was meant to be a resurrection of last summer’s protests against the high cost of living. Last July protest mass demonstrations reached...
View ArticleLia Tarachansky: Incitement against refugees leads to racist attacks in Israel
In recent weeks, incitement by government officials, rightist settlers, and poor community members against African refugees seeking asylum in Israel escalated into violence. In may Molotov cocktails...
View ArticleHead of Arab political party harassed, detained at Israeli airport
The National Democratic Party has accused Israel’s security services of repeatedly harassing one of its leaders each time he leaves and enters Israel. The NDP, which represents Israel’s large minority...
View ArticleArab educators in uproar over plan to study Begin and Ben-Gurion
Raja Zatara: "From the perspective of the Arab population, which was part of the Palestinian people, David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin are not just prime ministers. The former is identified with the...
View ArticleAmira Hass: The law, ass or donkey?
As a result of the High Court ruling, officers of the Civil Administration show up in Susya on June 12 and hand out six collective demolition orders affecting 52 buildings, including a preschool, a...
View ArticleLia Tarachansky: “Phantom Control”– Israel’s Secret Service and the Occupation
In recent years Israel's control over the Palestinian people in the occupied territories has changed. While the presence of the Israeli army has been greatly reduced, the occupation has taken a more...
View ArticleRachel Corrie ruling ‘deeply troubling’, says her family
Attorney Hussein Abu Hussein: "This verdict is yet another example of where impunity has prevailed over accountability and fairness. Rachel Corrie was killed while non-violently protesting home...
View ArticleLia Tarachansky: Israel denies food and entry to 20 Eritrean refugees
Israel's anti-refugee policy reached a new peak this week when Ha'aretz reported that a group of 20 asylum seekers was being denied entry and was stuck in the fenced area between the Sinai Desert in...
View ArticleJonathan Cook: ‘It’s time for Palestinians in Israel to stand firm against...
Awad Abdel Fattah: "Our [Palestinian Israelis'] traditional strength derived from the fact that we, as a community, survived the ethnic cleansing of 1948 [the Nakba]. We remained in our homeland, even...
View ArticleHaneen Zoabi: If Balad is banned, Arabs won’t vote
Haneen Zoabi: “Legally, they have no case. I never imagined myself to be in the middle of a war like this. I don’t think they will disqualify me. If so, and if Balad is disqualified, there will be no...
View ArticleArab-Israeli politician Haneen Zoabi disqualified from re-election
Jamal Zahalka: "Our problem is not that we are terrorists but rather that we are democrats in an environment that does not believe in democracy... We are tired of apologising for demanding full...
View ArticleBalad: Knesset Elections Committee disqualifies MK Haneen Zoabi from running...
MK Haneen Zoabi called the decision “anti-democratic and illegitimate”, a form of political revenge that reflected the tyranny of the majority. “No one will determine for the Arab minority who...
View ArticleAdalah: The 2013 Israeli Elections and Arab-Parliamentarians
Adalah document covering Israeli election rules and party or individual disqualifications.
View ArticleIsrael’s ‘Prisoner X’ was Australian Mossad agent, documentary claims
HRW's Bill van Esveld: "The main concern is over the fact that a person cannot simply be disappeared. That is against the norms of international law. That person's family needs to know what has...
View ArticleJonathan Cook: Israel’s rightward shift leaves Palestinian citizens out in...
Far from marking a revival by the center-left, as most media presented the results, [Israel's 2013] election results signaled a further rightward shift in the center of political gravity in Israel....
View ArticleAdalah: Discriminatory-laws database
On the occasion of the swearing in of the new Israeli government and the 19th Knesset (18 March 2013) and the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (22 March 2013), Adalah is...
View ArticleIsrael tourists face email inspections
Israeli security officials given approval to search email accounts of 'suspicious' travellers despite petition over invasion of privacy.
View ArticleJonathan Cook: How Israeli apartheid is coming unstuck
While Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies on the far right were castigating an amusement park called Superland for separating Jewish and Arab children, they were busy backing a...
View ArticleMichael Sfard: ‘The peace process has become a major enemy of human rights’
Michael Sfard: “While talks are happening Israel gets away with anything. Land grabs, the expansion of settlements, even [Operation] Cast Lead was waged while there were peace talks.”
View ArticleJonathan Cook: Israeli army recruitment plan aims to incite Christian-Muslim...
Leaders from the [Israeli] Palestinian community, Christian and Muslim, who have spoken against this new [IDF] enlistment effort have been called in for investigation by Israel’s secret police. In an...
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