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Why Israel’s top court is greenlighting a civil rights crackdown
After a year of fierce battles over the judicial coup, Israel’s Supreme Court seems totally subservient to the state’s policies since Oct. 7. What's changed?
By
Eyal Lurie-Pardes
December 12, 2023
The settlers wanted supreme power. They got a rebellion instead
The religious-Zionist movement has made vast inroads in Israeli state and society for two decades. The judicial overhaul may bring it all crashing down.
By
Meron Rapoport
August 15, 2023
The Israeli right once fought for a strong judiciary. What changed?
Scholar Dahlia Scheindlin discusses the history of Israel's struggles over a constitution, and why political camps reversed their positions on the courts.
By
Nate Orbach
April 24, 2023
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Israel won’t blink an eye if a hunger striker dies
The end of Maher al-Akhras' 103-day hunger strike is cause for celebration. But the Shin Bet is still doubling down on, rather than moving away from, administrative detention.
By
Orly Noy
November 9, 2020
Israel’s top court refuses to release ailing Palestinian hunger striker
High Court insists that Maher al-Akhras, who is hospitalized in grave condition, end his 78-day protest before being released from administrative detention.
By
Orly Noy
October 12, 2020
Supreme Court rules Israel can expel top Human Rights Watch director
Israel's top court says Omar Shakir can be deported, escalating the government's efforts to silence criticism of its policies.
By
Henriette Chacar
November 5, 2019
Palestinian families fight for relatives’ remains held by Israel
A recent Supreme Court ruling has rubber-stamped Israel's policy of withholding the bodies of Palestinians killed by its security forces.
By
Miriam Deprez
November 4, 2019
The judge who designed the legal foundations of Israel’s occupation
No one personifies the Zionist dissonance more than Meir Shamgar, the former president of the Supreme Court who died last week. He created the legal provisions for the protection of personal rights, while enshrining Israel's rule over the occupied territories.
By
Michael Sfard
October 24, 2019
Top court puts end to Palestinian poet’s four-year legal saga
Dareen Tatour was arrested after the security services decided her poetry constituted ‘incitement.’ After nearly three years under house arrest, a trial, and jail time, she is finally free. Dareen Tatour, the Palestinian poet arrested in 2015 over a poem she published on Facebook, is finally free. After years of house arrest, months in prison, and dogged efforts by the government to secure the maximum…
By
Oren Ziv
October 3, 2019
Israel fights to reinstate Palestinian poet’s conviction
Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour sat in prison for a poem she published on Facebook. After an Israeli court ruled that the poem does not constitute incitement to violence, the prosecution is now appealing the partial reversal of her conviction. Israel’s state prosecution is trying to appeal the partial reversal of the conviction of Dareen Tatour, the Palestinian poet found guilty of…
By
Oren Ziv
July 18, 2019
Top court throws out case demanding Palestinian kids be allowed to call parents from prison
The Israeli Supreme Court refuses to hear arguments in a case about whether Palestinian minors imprisoned by Israel should be allowed to speak to their families on the phone. Israel’s High Court of Justice refused to hear a petition by an Israeli human rights organization demanding that Palestinian minors held in Israeli prisons be allowed…
By
Edo Konrad
July 3, 2019
These elections are a choice between resignation and despair
Four years ago, the prospect of another Netanyahu government meant perpetuating the status quo. This time, the opposition is offering the status quo — and Netanyahu something far worse. The short distance between resignation and despair is the difference between knowing that things aren’t going to get any better and the fear that they could…
By
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
March 19, 2019
After a decade, evictions set to return in Sheikh Jarrah
Residents of Sheikh Jarrah are bracing for a new wave of evictions, ten years after Israeli settlers attempted to take over Palestinian homes in the embattled East Jerusalem neighborhood. The Sabag and Hamad families are refugees from Jaffa and Haifa, respectively. Expelled from their homes during the 1948 war, they have been living in the occupied…
By
Oren Ziv
December 3, 2018
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