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A Palestinian student briefly deleted her social media. Israel revoked her permit
Police arrested a West Bank medical student at an Israeli hospital and accused her of 'blocking' friends online. Weeks later, she was barred from returning.
By
Oren Ziv
December 19, 2023
Attempts to ‘bypass’ Israel’s High Court will create a ‘tyranny of the majority’
The government wants to strip the High Court of Justice of its ability to strike down unconstitutional laws, giving the government carte blanche to violate civil and human rights. The Israeli government has in recent days advanced legislation to limit or strip the country’s High Court of Justice of its ability to strike down laws it…
By
Joshua Leifer
April 17, 2018
Even civil rights are too extreme for Israel’s education minister
Naftali Bennett cancelled an event with Israel’s oldest human rights organization after a group of bereaved families called it ‘one of the most extreme de-legitimization organizations against the State of Israel.’ On Tuesday, November 28, Education Minister Naftali Bennett canceled an upcoming joint event between his ministry and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) on…
By
Joshua Leifer
November 28, 2017
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WATCH: Exposing procedures of police violence in Israel
Police in Israel recently began using a new type of sponge-tipped bullets that cause more extreme bodily harm, including the death of one teenager last year. Social TV interviews Atty. Anne Sucui of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), who explains that the Israel Police attempted to hide changes to its procedures from…
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Social TV
April 12, 2015
High Court greenlights racial profiling at Israel’s airports
High Court rejects petition calling for an end to racial profiling against Arabs at Ben-Gurion Airport, yet refuses to make a principled ruling on the policy as a whole. Israel’s High Court of Justice rejected a petition by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), demanding an end to racial profiling at Ben-Gurion Airport on…
By
Edo Konrad
March 11, 2015
High Court demands a solution to East Jerusalem water crisis
Palestinian neighborhoods of Jerusalem have been suffering from a severe water crisis for 10 months. Israel’s High Court of Justice on Monday ordered the state to find a solution to the severe lack of running water in four East Jerusalem neighborhoods located beyond the separation barrier. Despite their location within territory that Israel unilaterally annexed to…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
January 20, 2015
Provide asylum seekers with heaters, rights groups demand in court
Following media reports and the intervention of two members of Knesset, the Israel Prison Service provided African asylum seekers with heating pads, which one asylum seeker says are inadequate. As temperatures drop below zero, Tel Aviv residents protest conditions at the Holot detention facility. By Yael Marom Two Israeli refugee rights organizations petitioned the High…
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+972 Magazine
January 11, 2015
Judges aren’t cogs in the occupation, they’re the oil keeping it going
A new report maps out the two separate legal systems in the occupied territories — one for Jews and one for Arabs. At a launch event for the report, senior jurists showed up and argued it’s not their fault whatsoever. Former Supreme Court Justice Dalia Dorner asked: What can we do? The answer: A lot.…
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Haggai Matar
December 22, 2014
Resource: Two legal systems — discrimination under military occupation
One of the most prominent and disturbing characteristics of Israeli military rule in the West Bank is the creation and development of an official and institutionalized legal regime of two separate legal systems, on an ethnic-national basis. The long-standing residence of citizens of the State of Israel, the occupying power, in settlements at the heart…
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+972 Resources
December 22, 2014
High Court rules against Zoabi, upholds Knesset suspension
‘In effect, from this day forward, Arab Knesset members will be subject to the political judgements of the Jewish majority,’ MK Zoabi’s attorneys say. The High Court of Justice on Wednesday rejected MK Haneen Zoabi’s appeal to overturn her six-month suspension from parliamentary discussions for a political opinion she expressed on the radio in June.…
By
Mairav Zonszein
December 10, 2014
WATCH: Police spray putrid water on Palestinian homes, schools
Two new videos catch a police ‘skunk’ truck spraying East Jerusalem neighborhoods with foul-smelling liquid. The smell was so bad that 4,500 students had to stay home from school. The “skunk” trucks drives slowly through the neighborhood. It is evening, and there is no evidence of clashes in the area. The truck proceeds slowly, sprays…
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Haggai Matar
November 15, 2014
Family life forbidden for migrant workers in Israel
Legal advocates decry Israeli policies toward migrant workers as inhumane and claim that they violate the laborers’ human right to family. Maris Delusong, a 36-year-old caregiver from the Philippines, is alone at Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station. She stops at a sale rack outside a clothing store. She looks at the baby clothes, pulls a…
By
Mya Guarnieri Jaradat
October 15, 2014
Israel’s Bedouin: Civilians in death alone
Israel denies Bedouin citizens basic services in life but claims them as civilians when they die. Over 400 Palestinians have been killed since Israel began its current military operation in Gaza. According to the United Nations, approximately three-quarters of Gaza’s dead are civilians; many are children. In Israel, two civilians have been killed. One was…
By
Mya Guarnieri Jaradat
July 20, 2014
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