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A tribute to Vivian
I know you will be greeted up above by your Palestinian and Israeli partners in activism, and the thousands of other victims of this pointless war.
By
Samah Salaime
November 14, 2023
The return of Israel’s military rule over Palestinian citizens
Long wielded in the occupied territories, administrative detention could be the next tool in Ben Gvir's arsenal of repression against Palestinian citizens.
By
Orly Noy
June 13, 2023
With NGO assault, Israel drops its fig leaf
The Israeli right has co-opted Rabin's slogan 'without a High Court and B'Tselem' to undermine those institutions — but for a different purpose.
By
Orly Noy
May 30, 2023
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Israeli gov’t is trying to defund +972 Magazine, report says
Israel has been working to curtail critical voices in recent years, often by portraying them as foreign agents and seeking to dry up their funding. By +972 Magazine Staff Israel asked the German government to pressure two left-leaning political foundations to stop funding +972 Magazine, according to a report in the German media Thursday. +972…
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December 6, 2018
Israeli parents protest arrests of Palestinian children in central Tel Aviv
A group of Israeli parents mark International Day for the Rights of the Child by raising awareness of the conditions of Palestinian minors in Israeli custody. For the majority of Israelis, stories of mass arrests of Palestinians in the occupied territories are nothing new. And yet, the Israeli mainstream rarely hears about Palestinian children who are…
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Orly Noy
November 22, 2018
No justice for Bil’in Palestinian activist shot dead by Israeli soldier
Nearly a decade after an Israeli soldier killed Bassem Abu Rahmeh while he was nonviolently protesting in Bil’in, Israel’s High Court decides once and for all that his killer will never see the inside of a courtroom. More than nine years after an Israeli soldier killed Palestinian activist Bassem Abu Rahmeh at a protest in…
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Henriette Chacar
September 18, 2018
Israel sent an average of 29 Palestinians a month to admin. detention last year
As of May 2018, 440 Palestinians were being held in Israeli prisons without charge or trial, according to new data. Administrative detention orders can be renewed indefinitely, without any way for the prisoner to defend themselves in court. By Yael Marom Israeli authorities sent an average of 29 Palestinians a month to prison without charge…
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July 26, 2018
Israeli demolition of entire Palestinian village days away, villagers fear
Israeli security forces show up and survey homes in Khan al-Ahmar, which activists and residents fear is a sign of forced displacement of the entire village. Israel’s top court gave its approval to the demolition, an act rights groups say would constitute a war crime. By +972 Magazine Staff After getting the green light from…
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July 1, 2018
Hiding the occupation doesn’t make it go away
A proposed law, said to be supported by Netanyahu’s government, would criminalize videotaping Israeli soldiers doing the dirty work of the occupation. But hiding something from sight doesn’t make it go away. Or does it? If an Israeli soldier beats a Palestinian and no one is there to catch it on video, did it really…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
June 16, 2018
What would you do if soldiers dragged your son out of bed in the middle of the night?
After more than half a century of occupation, most Israelis can no longer imagine themselves in the place of the Palestinians. But if we cannot imagine what it is like to live under occupation, we must at least confront its brutal reality. Twenty years ago, in March 1998, the head of the Labor Party Ehud…
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Orly Noy
June 8, 2018
Charged with killing Palestinian teen, two soldiers to walk free
Israeli soldiers shot 16-year-old Samir Awad eight times in the back, killing him. After a two-year delay, they were finally indicted. Now, five years after the killing, the prosecution is dropping the charges against them. Indictments against two former Israeli soldiers charged with killing an unarmed Palestinian teenager will be dropped, the state prosecutor announced Monday.…
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Joshua Leifer
June 4, 2018
A victim is the suspect at the trial of the soldiers who killed him
Samir Awad was unarmed when he was shot in the back eight times by soldiers. During his killers’ trial, the judge and defense treated the dead boy as if he was the one being charged with a crime. In Israeli courts, the rare trial of a soldier who killed a Palestinian invariably becomes a trial…
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Joshua Leifer
May 9, 2018
The real danger of Natalie Portman
Israeli leaders are relentlessly hammering home the idea that the kind of political dissent displayed by Natalie Portman is foreign. And dissenters, by definition, are not real Israelis. When Natalie Portman announced that she would not attend the lucrative Genesis Prize ceremony because she opposes Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, who was to present the prize to…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
April 24, 2018
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