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Tel Aviv’s radical left finds a new home
Culture of Solidarity, which began as a mutual aid initiative during lockdown, has grown into a hub for a new generation of activists across many struggles.
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Alice Austin
August 26, 2022
‘I can’t fall asleep’: The trauma of Israeli raids on Palestinian homes
A new report by human rights groups highlights the arbitrary nature and psychological harm of the Israeli army's home invasions on Palestinian families.
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Oren Ziv
December 2, 2020
How Israeli doctors enable the Shin Bet’s torture industry
From approving brutal interrogation techniques to writing false medical reports, doctors in Israel have taken an active role in the torture of Palestinian prisoners. By Ruchama Marton If the Shin Bet runs a school for its agents and interrogators, the curriculum most certainly includes a class on how to tell a lie. The texts taught, it seems,…
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October 7, 2019
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After years of false promises, time to close Guantanamo
It has been five years since President Barack Obama promised to close the notorious Guantanamo Bay detention center – and yet 155 prisoners remain imprisoned under harsh conditions. By [Author’s name redacted] Five years ago yesterday, President Barack Obama signed an executive order to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. The facility has not…
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January 23, 2014
WATCH: Why is Israel still shackling hospitalized prisoners?
As far back as 2008, Israel’s Health Ministry and Prison Service formulated clear criteria for the shackling of hospitalized prisoners. But as it turns out, the Prison Service still dictates the policy and doctors’ hands are tied — and shackling procedures are still being applied arbitrarily. Related: As Palestinian hunger strikes come to a head,…
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Social TV
June 19, 2013
Hunger-striker Samer Issawi is another statistic in an unjust legal system
Unlike Prisoner X, there is no public outrage in Israel over the way the legal system is preventing Samer Issawi from receiving a fair trial. But then again, Issawi is Palestinian. Samer Issawi, the Palestinian prisoner who has been on an intermittent hunger strike for over 200 days, had his day in court on Thursday.…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
February 21, 2013
As Palestinian hunger strikes come to a head, world begins to take notice
Four Palestinian prisoners are on hunger strikes to protest their administrative detention and the conditions in which they are being held. While the EU calls on Israel to respect its obligations toward Palestinian prisoners’ human rights, an Israeli NGO reports they are being treated unethically in hospital. All anyone in Israel has spoken about for…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
February 18, 2013
‘Why don’t you write about Syria?’
Reports on Syria have become a public commodity in the political conversation regarding Israel/Palestine, and the Palestinian refugees in Syria have become an object in a debate, not living people that need urgent help. It’s not unusual for any report on a wrongdoing by the IDF in the occupied territories to be received here with comments…
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Noam Sheizaf
February 10, 2013
Palestinian prisoners’ rights activist detained, tortured in Israeli prison
Ayman Nasser, a researcher for the Palestinian prisoners’ rights NGO Addameer, has himself become a detainee in an Israeli prison, having been charged with several counts of membership in an illegal organization and of partaking in illegal assembly. According to Physicians for Human Rights, he has been tortured during his 39-day-long interrogation. Nasser, 42, was…
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Haggai Matar
December 7, 2012
Turning one’s back on the world and all its suffering
A group of twenty people who fled the horrors of Eritrea was being prevented from crossing the fence to Israel at gunpoint. The army also prevented doctors and volunteers from supplying the refugees with food and medicine. UPDATE: Around 6:30 P.M., it was made known that two women along with the 14-year-old boy will be allowed into Israel to receive medical…
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Noam Sheizaf
September 6, 2012
Hunger striking Palestinian footballer at risk of death
Mahmoud Sarsak, midfielder for the Palestinian national football team, has been on hunger strike for 82 days in protest of his detention without trial. Physicians for Human Rights has expressed “grave concern for his life.” Sarsak (25) is a resident of the Rafah refugee camp and a prominent player in the Palestinian national football team.…
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Haggai Matar
June 8, 2012
The tent protest: neither social justice, nor revolution
This article was jointly written by Dahlia Scheindlin and Joseph Dana, based on our shared experiences of the protests. The popular, mass protests here that began as a cry of rage against housing prices have evolved admirably into a public outcry against a slew of deep-rooted problems in Israeli social and economic life. Visiting the…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
July 31, 2011
A quiet week: cottage cheese and social (in)justices
In the absence of any major diplomatic fiascos or triumphs, wars or terror attacks, here is a roundup of a regular old week in Israel: Right-leaning Kadima MK Israel Hasson has proposed that Israelis should not be allowed to perform their national service (an alternate form of IDF service for those with a special exemption)…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
June 16, 2011
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