An attempt to kill a family in its sleep would force almost any police force to make an extra effort in catching the perpetrators. Not when the police are Israeli and the victims Palestinian. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz Late one night in May 2012, H., a resident of the West Bank village Einbus, was awakened when he heard a noise outside his house. He went towards the window, heard dogs barking and then smelled smoke. He ran to the balcony where he noticed two things: first and foremost, his car was on fire; second, three or four…

Anat Hoffman, longtime crusader for the advancement of progressive Judaism in Israel and a tireless activist for the rights of women to partake in religious traditions, was arrested last month while saying the Shma prayer at the Western Wall. Hoffman, the Executive Director of the Israel Religious Action Center and one of the founders of Women of the Wall (and a former Jerusalem City councilwoman) is no stranger to the law: it was the sixth time she has been arrested. Yet she says she has never been charged. When I interviewed her nine days later at a conference in Germany,…

From the River to the Sea, Palestinians are prevented from protesting freely for their rights. Yesterday, I attended my first Palestinian demonstration across the Green Line, in front of Ramle Prison. Having been to many protests in the West Bank I was eager to assess the differences between the two events and how the Israeli authorities respond to each. The day before, I had attended a demonstration in front of Ofer Prison near Ramallah. Both events were in support of the Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails, and therefore, relatively parallel. In the occupied West Bank, peaceable assembly…

Israeli police and army mount a massive operation to stop Israelis from reaching the special Friday protest, marking seven years of popular and joint struggle in Bil'in In the beginning there were engineers, soldiers and bulldozers. It was after the International Court of Law in The Hague had already barred construction of The Separation Wall within the West Bank, and before the Israeli High Court of Justice found the Wall's route in Bil'in illegal. It was after someone somewhere decided that more than 2,000 dunams of the village's agricultural lands were to be annexed to Israel by force, and before…

Tens of thousands gathered in a Tel Aviv protest organized by the "tent city" movement, demanding affordable housing and social justice. Later, hundreds blocked main streets in the city This post is joint reporting by Dahlia Scheindlin and Dimi Reider Dimi writes: Hundreds of protesters for social justice clashed with police in central Tel Aviv tonight under chants of revolution and signs reading "Mubarak. Assad. Netanyahu." Some 42 people were arrested, a rare if not unprecedented number for a Tel Aviv demonstration on any issue. After a huge turnout to a well-organized march (estimates vary between the 20 and the 40…