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Amnesty is fighting to end Israeli apartheid. Why isn’t its German branch?
From social media to public activities, Amnesty Deutschland has largely avoided promoting its parent organization's campaign for Palestinian rights.
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Hebh Jamal
July 31, 2023
Ask the experts: A guide to Israel’s attacks on Palestinian civil society
Our readers had questions about Israel’s designation of six Palestinian human rights groups as ‘terrorists.’ So we invited experts to answer.
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+972 Magazine
November 3, 2021
EDITORIAL: +972 stands with Palestinian rights groups under attack
Israel's labeling of six Palestinian NGOs as 'terrorists' aims to suppress those exposing and challenging apartheid. International actors must intervene.
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+972 Magazine
October 24, 2021
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‘The law is what keeps the edifice of occupation from crashing down’
Michael Sfard has spent the past two decades fighting the occupation in Israeli courts. His new book dissects the moral dilemmas of engaging with the occupation’s legal system, its role in making the status quo sustainable, and why, despite it all, he remains optimistic that Israel’s military rule over the Palestinians will end. By Yossi Gurvitz “The…
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June 22, 2018
U.S. Embassy celebrations: A who’s who of the Israeli arms trade
Only around 30 countries took part in the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s gala celebrating the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem last week. Not coincidentally, Israel’s ties with most of them are based on arms sales used to carry out gross human rights violations. By Eitay Mack [Correction added below.] Immediately following the end of the 1967 War, the State of…
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+972 Magazine
May 22, 2018
Human Rights Watch sues Israel in first challenge to anti-boycott travel ban
This is the first application of the 2017 amendment to Israel’s entry law in which a foreign national already living and working in Israel has had their work permit revoked for alleged support for BDS. Human Rights Watch and its Israel and Palestine director, U.S. citizen Omar Shakir, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the Israeli government following the Interior Ministry’s decision…
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Mairav Zonszein
May 16, 2018
Top court hears first major challenge to IDF’s live fire in Gaza
Human rights groups argue the army’s open-fire regulations violate international law. The government claims the use of deadly force is justified — even against unarmed demonstrators. Israel’s High Court of Justice heard on Monday a major challenge to the IDF’s rules of engagement, which permit the use of live fire against demonstrators who pose no danger…
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Joshua Leifer
April 30, 2018
Defying racist legislation: New bill seeks to turn Israel into a true democracy
In the face of an onslaught of nationalist, anti-Arab laws, one lawmaker is proposing a simple alternative: transforming Israel into a state for all its citizens. A few years ago, my colleague Noam Sheizaf conducted a fascinating interview with the executive director of Adalah, Hassan Jabareen, in which the former raised the idea that the rise of…
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Orly Noy
February 6, 2018
In Be’er Sheva, coexistence is ‘political,’ and can get you evicted
The Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Quality has been a fixture in the city of Be’er Sheva for decades. Now, following pressure from far-right activists, the city is evicting it. By Yehudit Keshet The city of Be’er Sheva is trying to evict the Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality, the only place where Jews and…
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+972 Magazine
January 8, 2018
+972 Magazine’s 20 most-read posts of 2017
From the Palestinian director shattering taboos in her own society, to a journey away from Zionism, to Richard Gere likening Hebron to Jim Crow, here are the most popular articles we published this past year. By +972 Magazine Staff 20. Looted from Beirut 35 years ago, now on display in Tel Aviv Read the full article here. 19. Two…
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December 29, 2017
The new ‘choice’ for asylum seekers: Deportation or prison
Israel finally plans to close its desert detention facility for African asylum seekers. Refugee advocates worry it could be the start of something even worse. During a midnight vote on Monday, the Knesset passed a bill that will enable the government to detain asylum seekers indefinitely or deport them to an unspecified country in Africa.…
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Joshua Leifer
December 13, 2017
‘You are all traitors’: The political persecution of Breaking the Silence
That the minister of justice can singlehandedly launch an investigation against the anti-occupation group is a symptom of the decline of the rule of law and creeping authoritarianism within the Green Line. It is not often that the justice minister of a country personally demands the investigation of a political adversary to prove they did…
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Joshua Leifer
November 19, 2017
Some Israelis think human rights are incompatible with Judaism. They’re wrong
We must reject the false choice between giving up on our traditions and accepting narrow, tribal, and racist interpretations of Judaism. By Yariv Mohar Judaism and humanism are increasingly seen as diametrically opposed in Israel today. Labor Party chairman Avi Gabbay’s recent remarks, in which he echoed Netanyahu’s infamous comment that “the Left has forgotten what…
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November 16, 2017
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