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‘When the constitution becomes racist, it’s difficult to define what racism is’
One year ago, Israel passed a constitutional amendment declaring that Israel belongs only to its Jewish citizens. The head of Israel’s premier Palestinian rights group discusses what has changed in Israeli courts, but also overseas. ‘The debate soon will be whether Israel is apartheid.’ In the year since the Israeli parliament passed the Jewish Nation-State Law,…
By
Henriette Chacar
July 26, 2019
Israel puts popular Palestinian leader on trial for ‘incitement’ on Facebook
Raja Eghbarieh, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and leader of a movement that boycotts the Knesset elections, was charged last month with incitement for a number of posts he wrote on Facebook. The judge, for now, remains unconvinced. By Yoav Haifawi An Israeli court heard arguments Tuesday against authorities’ demand that a popular Palestinian political…
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+972 Magazine
October 5, 2018
The Israeli gov’t is arguing that annexation is good for Palestinians
In a High Court case over a law to legalize Israeli settlements built on stolen, privately owned Palestinian land, the attorney hired to represent the government (because the attorney general refused to do so) argues that Palestinians, and not just settlers, would actually benefit. Israel’s High Court of Justice heard arguments on Sunday against the…
By
Orly Noy
June 6, 2018
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In Haifa, a display of Palestinian grassroots power
The combined efforts of Palestinians in using their bodies, cameras, and voices to support detained protesters made it impossible for the police to hide the severity of their actions. The release of 19 Palestinian citizens of Israel on Monday, who had been arrested since Friday, after police violently dispersed a demonstration in Haifa against last…
By
Amjad Iraqi
May 21, 2018
‘Police broke my knee, threatened my doctors,’ Arab civil society leader tells court
Seven require medical treatment for injuries sustained during their arrests or while in custody, including Jafar Farah, who says an officer broke his knee inside the police station. Police file criminal complaint against Arab MK Ayman Odeh for calling the officers who refused to let him visit a hospitalized protester ‘losers’. Israeli police arrested 21…
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Oren Ziv
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Yali (Yael) Marom
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Meron Rapoport
May 21, 2018
When the High Court has to intervene so a Palestinian family can mourn
After Israeli police shot and killed Yaqub Musa Abu al-Qi’an before demolishing his home, the state held onto his body for nearly a week. Only an appeal to the High Court allowed his family to bury their loved one. The only way to describe what took place on Monday in Israel’s High Court, during a…
By
Orly Noy
January 24, 2017
‘The problem isn’t Arab protesters, it’s the society that sees them as an enemy’
Fifteen years since the events of October 2000, in which Israeli police killed 13 Arab protesters, Hassan Jabareen, head of Israel’s leading Arab civil rights organization, talks to +972 about the lessons Israel’s Palestinian population learned from the killings, the escalation of systematic discrimination since, and the vision of a democratic state of all its…
By
Noam Sheizaf
October 6, 2015
Jewish nationalism and the new Palestinian politics in Israel
Although the occupation has been absent in these elections, nationalism has permeated the campaigns. The violence of 2014 and the Gaza war were a transformative moment for Palestinian citizens of Israel and the realization of their political power.
By
Dimi Reider
March 17, 2015
Boycott goes on trial in Israel’s High Court
Civil rights organizations argue the ‘anti-boycott law’ has created a chilling effect, stifling debate on one of the most divisive issues facing Israeli society. If that’s the case, the state counters, then how has BDS grown so much in recent years? In a hearing that felt at times like the political boycott itself was on…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
February 16, 2014
Israeli police lock up Haifa activist for Facebook statuses
Police detained and held Razi Nabulsi, a young Palestinian from Haifa for a week for statuses he posted to Facebook and Twitter, claiming they constituted incitement. The catch? Even though the statuses were posted publicly on the Internet, police declared them to be secret evidence and refused to publicly say in court what he was…
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+972 Magazine
October 17, 2013
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