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Will Israel’s High Court defy the far-right government?
As the Court hears petitions against the first judicial overhaul bill, Palestinian human rights lawyer Hassan Jabareen assesses the state of play.
By
Ghousoon Bisharat
September 15, 2023
Israel’s security brass are defending the High Court to save themselves
Israel's top court has consistently shielded soldiers from standing trial. Now they fear the judicial overhaul could expose them to prosecution overseas.
By
Sebastian Ben Daniel (John Brown)
September 11, 2023
Israel’s justice minister gives away the real aim of the judicial coup’s first law
In a Knesset speech, Yariv Levin listed five gov't decisions that were blocked for being ‘unreasonable.’ All were about Palestinians and the occupation.
By
Ben Reiff
July 25, 2023
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After 100 days, Palestinian hunger striker ‘can collapse at any moment’
Despite four High Court petitions and protests against his administrative detention, Israeli authorities do not seem to care if Maher al-Akhras dies.
By
Oren Ziv
November 3, 2020
How Palestinian citizens are putting Israel’s coronavirus powers in check
From Shin Bet surveillance to women's employment, one Palestinian NGO has been at the forefront of defending civil rights for all during the pandemic.
By
Meron Rapoport
May 12, 2020
A lesson in fighting apartheid from a Jewish South African dissident
Denis Goldberg, who passed away on April 29, reminded Palestinians that the world has seen their kind of oppression before — and that it can be beaten.
By
Amjad Iraqi
May 6, 2020
Police reverse racial profiling policy at Israeli hospital
Israeli police tell High Court that security guards no longer single out 'Arab-looking' passengers on buses entering Barzilai Medical Center.
By
Meron Rapoport
January 27, 2020
How Israel’s top court outlawed moral opposition to the occupation
In the topsy-turvy world of Israel's High Court, international law is nothing more than a disguise to delegitimize the state and its settlements.
By
Hagai El-Ad
January 16, 2020
Jordan turns back stateless Palestinian journalist Israel tried to deport
Israel attempted to deport Mustafa al-Haruf, a stateless Palestinian photographer from East Jerusalem, to Jordan without any coordination. Al-Haruf has been living in the country for over 20 years, yet Israel refuses to grant him permanent status. Jordanian authorities refused to accept a stateless Palestinian journalist from East Jerusalem whom Israel tried to deport to the Hashemite…
By
Oren Ziv
July 25, 2019
Israel doesn’t have to be an apartheid state
It is our duty to take every opportunity to say to the world that the occupation is not Israel, that we are not willing to continue imposing military rule on another people any longer. By Zehava Galon In Israel of 2019, the controversy is no longer over one state, two states, democracy or apartheid. Today,…
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May 20, 2019
Despite its flaws, we need to fight for Israel’s High Court
By propping up a legal system that does not protect the most vulnerable and powerless, the justices of Israel’s High Court have planted the seeds of its own destruction. By Michael Sfard It is widely expected that the next Netanyahu government will set its sights on hollowing out the judiciary in Israel. According to countless…
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+972 Magazine
May 17, 2019
Netanyahu wants you to think Israeli-Palestinian mourning is seditious
The prime minister pulls out all the stops in his failed attempt at preventing the annual Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony from taking place. Prime Minister Netanyahu appears to have lied to Israel’s highest court this week in an attempt to shut down and delegitimize one of Israel-Palestine’s only successful fora for shattering the exclusive nature of national mourning. For the past 14 years,…
By
Edo Konrad
May 7, 2019
The grassroots movements in Israel-Palestine that won 2018
+972 Magazine’s story of the year for 2018 is the protest movements that managed to beat the odds by forcing governments to revisit and even change their policies. The story of African refugees stopping their deportation from Israel, and Gazans using popular protests to make sure the world doesn’t forget about them. By Michael Schaeffer…
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December 31, 2018
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