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April 28, 2018
On Friday, while the protests were taking place and several were being shot by Israeli snipers with live ammunition, human rights organization Amnesty International echoed the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement's call for an arms embargo against Israel. The organization said Israel wasÃâà...
Mondoweiss
April 27, 2018
Israeli human rights activists who promote BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) and speak harshly against Israeli policy are often subject to campaigns of ... Thus I will tell the story of Adi Shosberger, the Israeli activist who called Israeli soldiers “terrorists” who are participating in a “massacre of innocentÃâà...
The Intercept
April 27, 2018
Today on Deconstructed I'll speak to two brave Israeli activists who campaigned to protect the human rights of Palestinians, and for an end to what has ... The Israelis say they pulled out of Gaza in 2005, pulled out all their troops, all their illegal settlers — therefore, ergo, Gaza isn't occupied anymore.
Haaretz
April 26, 2018
Like many Israelis, members of the Social Congress — a group of young social activists who came together to discuss and promote social concerns — have ... “The political system has been geared to social issues since 2011,” says Shir Nosatzki, a social activist and one of the leaders of that year's protestÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
April 25, 2018
Relations between the University of Manchester (UoM) and Israeli arms manufacturers have been exposed in a new report by student activists. ... found the university to be in violation of the government act issued in 2000 by not disclosing information requested by a student activist over its controversial ties.
Haaretz
April 25, 2018
Sami al-Ali, a member of the Jisr al-Zarqa local council and a social activist, says that in recent years personal messages are disseminated on social networks ahead of the wedding season. “We've made it clear that in every wedding where weapons are used, we'll call on the people involved to leave,” heÃâà...
Haaretz
April 12, 2018
Amid heightened tensions on the Gaza border, the Israeli military braces for the third consecutive week of Palestinian protests in the area. Organizers in Gaza expect thousands to participate in this weekend's marches, with Palestinian activists preparing to burn Israeli flags and hoist Palestinian flags in theirÃâà...
Daily Sabah
April 12, 2018
A video showing Palestinian teen activist Ahed Tamimi being harassed and threatened by Israeli officers during her interrogation has caused uproar after going viral on social media and news sites. In the footage, dating back to December 26, the 17-year-old girl is seen sitting at a desk in front of IsraeliÃâà...
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
April 12, 2018
In San Francisco, some 200 human rights defenders protested March 31 against the Israeli military's killing of 17 Palestinians, most between the ages of 17 ... To the Israelis, as well as the Palestinians, Becker said, that translates as a message from Washington that Israel “can do whatever you want; we stand behind you.”.
Accuracy in Academia
April 10, 2018
Pro-Palestinian student activists at Swarthmore want the college to stop selling Sabra-branded hummus because they accuse the parent company of Sabra of supporting an Israeli military brigade with care packages. The parent company of Sabra is the Strauss Group, which the activists allege the StraussÃâà...
Haaretz
April 4, 2018
In a first-of-its kind event, Palestinian activists in Hebron played host to 100 Israelis and international visitors on Wednesday evening in what was billed as a “Freedom Seder.” The Passover .... All That's Left activist Daniel Roth said the texts had been used in seders around the world. The seder was timed toÃâà...
+972 Magazine
March 30, 2018
Nevertheless, Israelis have refused to listen. Even before the march began Israeli security forces launched a public campaign painting the 'Great Return March' as a violent, Hamas-sponsored event. The Israeli army's chief of staff announced the deployment of 100 snipers and several infantry brigades toÃâà...
Forward
March 20, 2018
Just a few weeks ago, an Israeli court convicted two Israelis of brutally beating African refugee Babikir Ali Adham-Abdo to death, right outside of the city ... They might manage to shame radical activists out of invoking the name of Anne Frank to describe their efforts to hide the African refugees in their homes.
Haaretz
March 20, 2018
The Israeli army has started asking left-wing groups that arrange meetings between Israelis and Palestinians for large quantities of information about their ... “Once, all that was needed was general details,” said an activist with an organization that holds art workshops for blind Palestinian children in Israel.
Mondoweiss
March 19, 2018
Israel's military appeals court ruled on Monday against an appeal by 17-year-old Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi and her defense team to hold the ... saying “the continuing presence of international and Israeli human rights activists at any court hearing for Palestinian political prisoners has been vital as aÃâà...
International Middle East Media Center
March 19, 2018
Palestinians and International activists successfully planted dozens of olive saplings in the north of West Bank in the village of Burin near Nablus. Palestinians and Internationals together laid pictures of prominent activists in front of the planted saplings, some of these activists were killed by the Israeli armyÃâà...
i24NEWS
March 13, 2018
In 2014 posts from a secret British Facebook group, Greta Berlin, the co-founder and spokesperson of the Free Gaza Movement, says that Israeli commandos who boarded the Mavi Marmara flotilla did not open fire on activists until one, Ken O'Keefe, stole a gun from one of them. “He was responsible forÃâà...
Haaretz
March 9, 2018
Meretz, the party to the left of the Labor Party, is inarguably an Ashkenazi party – made up of Jews with roots in Europe. Since it was founded to run in the 1992 election, only two of its Knesset members have been of Mizrahi – Middle Eastern or North African – extraction: Ran Cohen and Mossi Raz. And itsÃâà...
The Catalyst
March 5, 2018
Combatants for Peace is a nonprofit organization led by a collective of former Israeli and Palestinian soldiers. The egalitarian, bi-national, grassroots organization was founded on the belief that the cycle of violence can only be broken when Israelis and Palestinians join forces. It started in 2005 when someÃâà...
Arab News
March 4, 2018
Israeli border policemen detain a foreign activist during a protest on Friday in the West Bank village of Bil'in, west of Ramallah. (AP) ... Surrounded on three sides by the Israeli separation wall, Qalqilya covers an area of just over 1.5 square miles, yet is home to an estimated 53,000 residents, making it theÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 4, 2018
London, England - US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel signals the "official adoption of the Israeli narrative", ... hosted by Middle East Monitor, politicians, activists and academics repeatedly noted the potentially dangerous consequences of Trump's move. The USÃâà...
The Cairns Post
March 3, 2018
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NPR
February 12, 2018
Trial Set To Start For Young Palestinian Activist Who Struck An Israeli Soldier ... The defendant is a Palestinian teenager from the West Bank seen on video slapping and kicking Israeli soldiers. ... ESTRIN: It outraged Israelis, who said she shouldn't be allowed to get away with doing that to their troops.
JNS.org
December 31, 1999
Gaza Activists Use "Firebomb Kites" to Set Fire to Israeli Fields and Houses: Hundreds of Kites Will Be Flown toward the EnemiesVarious sources ... In an April 18 report, Al-Jazeera interviewed an activist, who, wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, threatened: "Not dozens but hundreds of kites will be flown towardÃâà...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
Yoav Mordechai, the coordinator of government activities in the territories, expects us to believe that tens of Palestinians and a few Israelis conspired to ... The liars are also his parents, members of his extended family in the village of Nabi Saleh, and friends – including Israeli leftist activist Jonathan Pollak.
The Independent Weekly
December 31, 1999
From Durham2Palestine—a coalition of local activist groups—wants the city council to pass a resolution condemning these exchanges and provide ... says allowing high-ranking officers to participate in these programs validates the tactics used by Israeli forces—tactics the activists do not want to see moreÃâà...
