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What Israelis won’t be asking about the Palestinians released for hostages
The list of Palestinians slated to be exchanged for Israelis should provoke reflection over the role of mass imprisonment in the occupation.
By
Orly Noy
November 23, 2023
Want to fight for real equality? Look to Jonathan Pollak
For Israeli and U.S. activists, demanding equality tends to mean raising others to our level of privilege. But how many are willing to relinquish that privilege?
By
Libby Lenkinski
October 5, 2023
Armed settlers assaulted a Palestinian man. Guess who’s in jail?
Hafez Hureini had both his arms broken by settlers while he was working on his land. Now he's in detention, while his attackers remain free.
By
Oren Ziv
September 19, 2022
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When the judge is your enemy, to whom shall you complain?
The Israeli justice system – from its inaccessible police stations to its lenient prosecutors, from its negligent investigators to its judges who won’t convict – makes it clear to the Palestinians that there is simply no point in lodging complaints. By Yossi Gurvitz, written for Yesh Din “The spectrum of possible reasons for the lack…
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June 3, 2015
The illusion of change in the West Bank military courts
Positive developments in the treatment of minors by Israeli security forces are overshadowed by partial and half-hearted implementation. By Gerard Horton In March 2013, UNICEF recommended that all children detained by the Israeli military in the West Bank must be given written information about their rights, including the right to silence and prompt access to…
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May 2, 2015
Partial win: No jail for Palestinian activist who blocked bulldozer
Abdullah Abu Rahmah is levied a fine and a suspended sentence for standing in front of a bulldozer. ‘I will continue my struggle and my protest, because it is our right,’ he says. In his sentencing hearing, the military prosecution described Abu Rahmah’s nonviolent protest as an ideological crime. By Yael Marom The Israeli army’s Ofer…
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February 23, 2015
IDF: Palestinian nonviolent protest is an ideological crime
Abdullah Abu Rahmah has a sentencing hearing in military court after being convicted of standing in front of an IDF bulldozer. The nonviolent protest organizer from Bil’in who already served more than a year in prison has been declared a ‘human rights defender’ by the European Union. By Yael Marom Diplomats from the European Union,…
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February 9, 2015
Judges aren’t cogs in the occupation, they’re the oil keeping it going
A new report maps out the two separate legal systems in the occupied territories — one for Jews and one for Arabs. At a launch event for the report, senior jurists showed up and argued it’s not their fault whatsoever. Former Supreme Court Justice Dalia Dorner asked: What can we do? The answer: A lot.…
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Haggai Matar
December 22, 2014
Abiding by international law — when it’s convenient
Israeli institutions seek to obtain the benefits of the international legal order while refusing to accept the corresponding burdens and obligations. By Gerard Horton For some time now the Israeli army’s Military Courts’ Unit has distributed a five-page briefing paper to foreign delegations visiting military courts in the West Bank. The briefing paper is intended…
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November 24, 2014
Is every Palestinian kid who throws stones a terrorist?
In a reality where children aged 10 and 11 are arrested by 18- and 19-year-old soldiers who have been indoctrinated for military service since kindergarten, this kind of discussion seems completely out of place. A human rights attorney spends the day at one of the occupation’s more bizarre PR events. By Smadar Ben-Natan “Involvement of…
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November 16, 2014
A pretense of progress for children in Israel’s military courts
A new amendment requiring military authorities to videotape interrogations of Palestinian minors may seem like a step in the right direction. That is, until you read the fine print. By Gerard Horton Change has been afoot since UNICEF published a report finding that the ill treatment of children held in Israeli military detention “appears to…
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November 4, 2014
Replacing the peace process with a civil rights struggle
What would happen if Israeli progressives and their supporters demanded an end to the military court system, or called for freedom of movement for Palestinians? The answer: a lot. The two-state solution has long been transformed from a means (to solving the problem of the occupation) to an end. As I wrote here in the…
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Noam Sheizaf
September 9, 2014
Tariq Abu Khdeir wasn’t the first and he won’t be the last
Israel has detained over 7,000 Palestinian children over the past 12 years. Many of them report beatings, abuse and a denial of rights by security forces. It’s time to put things in the wider context. The detention and abuse of Palestinian children by Israeli security forces has, for a change, been all over the international news…
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Noa Yachot
July 7, 2014
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