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Israel shirked accountability for decades. Is the ICJ breaking its armor?
From Ben Gurion to Ben Gvir, Israel's dismissiveness of international sanctions has held strong. But the ruling at The Hague may be cracking that impunity.
By
Meron Rapoport
February 5, 2024
After years of diplomatic inertia, what can the ICJ offer Palestinians?
The UN’s vote to request a ruling on the occupation is an indictment of the failure to hold Israel accountable — and carries risks and opportunities alike.
By
Hugh Lovatt
January 1, 2023
Meta’s clampdown on Palestine speech is far from ‘unintentional’
A report on the social media giant validated Palestinian experiences of censorship in May 2021, but missed how those policies are biased by design.
By
Marwa Fatafta
October 9, 2022
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‘The system is defending police shooters instead of putting them on trial’
Israeli authorities are systematically dismissing probes into police officers who 'shoot to kill' Palestinian assailants as a first resort, says rights group.
By
Oren Ziv
December 22, 2021
Why Shin Bet torturers don’t have to worry about punishment
By clearing the Shin Bet for the brutal interrogation of a Palestinian detainee, the attorney general played his part in masking Israel's approval of torture.
By
Yael Stein
February 2, 2021
US guns are being aimed at Palestinian kids. Washington can take them away
The impunity enjoyed by Israeli soldiers has fostered an increasingly trigger-prone policy against Palestinian children. Americans have ways to prevent it.
By
Brad Parker
December 28, 2020
Annexation shouldn’t be the threshold for conditioning aid to Israel
By hinging U.S. leverage on de jure annexation, Democrats are giving Israel the green light to proceed with other crimes against Palestinians.
By
Yousef Munayyer
August 18, 2020
Israel doesn’t need ‘advice’ against annexation — it needs consequences
Half a century of occupation is ample time for powerful states like Germany to learn that rhetoric without action simply reinforces Israeli impunity.
By
Hagai El-Ad
April 30, 2020
Assault on Palestinian man shows violent effects of police impunity
Even when brutality is documented, Palestinians must live with the knowledge that they are unlikely to receive truth, justice, or respect from the authorities that claim to serve them. In the wake of a video released last Thursday showing an Israeli police officer assaulting a Palestinian truck driver in East Jerusalem, Police Commissioner Roni Alsheikh…
By
Amjad Iraqi
March 25, 2017
An unsettling moment of justice under occupation
Did a Palestinian activist see justice only because the soldier who shot him was an Arab? In a rare piece of positive news, Haaretz reported Saturday that the Jerusalem Magistrates’ Court decided that 155,000 shekels ($40,200) should be paid in compensation to Rateb Abu Rahmeh, a Palestinian activist and university lecturer from the West Bank…
By
Amjad Iraqi
December 13, 2015
Permanent victims of war: Who remembers Gaza’s children?
The Israeli public’s indifference to the effects of war on Palestinian children does not result in passivity — it is an integral component of the violence Gaza’s population faces. Ali al-Awour (pictured above on the left) was a 10-year-old boy from Gaza who loved to play soccer. On June 11, 2014, Ali was riding on…
By
Amjad Iraqi
July 21, 2015
The case for dismantling Israel’s human rights organizations
By doing the army’s job for it, Israeli human rights organizations enable the IDF’s ongoing dereliction of its obligation to protect the occupied Palestinian population. By Noam Rotem The Israeli human rights organizations operating in the West Bank are doing noble work. There should be no argument about that. They are on the front lines…
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+972 Magazine
July 18, 2015
Will the UN Gaza report finally push Europe to confront Israel?
The UN’s Commission of Inquiry report on the 2014 Gaza war has been able to achieve what the Goldstone report could not in 2009: a new gateway for confronting the EU to demand accountability for the devastation of the war. Two weeks ago the UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution to adopt the report…
By
Amjad Iraqi
July 16, 2015
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