Israeli left wing activists held indoors by police during Independence Day event
Members of the left wing organization Zochrot were attempting to distribute flyers containing the names of Palestinian villages that were evacuated or destroyed in 1948, when they were held indoors by...
View ArticleLia Tarachansky: Two of mass Palestinian prisoner’s hunger strike “on verge...
The Israeli supreme court rejected this week the appeal of two Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike for 70 days. The rejection was described as a death sentence by Physicians for Human Rights -...
View ArticleLia Tarachansky: Israeli police target activists as social protests restart
On Saturday Israelis organized the first demonstration of what was meant to be a resurrection of last summer’s protests against the high cost of living. Last July protest mass demonstrations reached...
View ArticleLia Tarachansky: Israeli military leaders speak out against Iran strike
The rift in Israel between the political leadership’s push for an attack on Iran, and the security establishment’s opposition widened in recent weeks. Three new voices spoke out on the question of Iran...
View ArticleLia Tarachansky: Incitement against refugees leads to racist attacks in Israel
In recent weeks, incitement by government officials, rightist settlers, and poor community members against African refugees seeking asylum in Israel escalated into violence. In may Molotov cocktails...
View ArticleLia Tarachansky: Israel’s J14 Movement and the Occupation
On June 2nd, Wafa Tiara, a Palestinian agricultural worker organized under the Ma’an union was supposed to address Israel’s J14 social justice movement. The protest was meant to serve as an indicator...
View ArticleLia Tarachansky: Thousands of Israelis join “citizen’s mutiny”
On June 22, 2012 Daphnie Leef, the symbolic leader of the J14 social justice movement in Israel was violently arrested while trying to set up a protest tent. The action was meant to reinvigorate the...
View ArticleIDF officer head-butts Palestinian youth in the face in Hebron (video)
An IDF officer with the rank of lieutenant head-butted a Palestinian youth in the face, a video filmed in the city of Hebron on Wednesday and uploaded to YouTube has revealed. A volunteer for the NGO...
View ArticleAmid talk of Iran strike, IDF set to reactivate long-range intelligence drone
The "Eitan" drone can take off and land automatically, is able to stay in the air for 36 straight hours and reach a maximum flight height of 45,000 feet. In addition, the craft can carry cargo weighing...
View ArticleLia Tarachansky: “Phantom Control”– Israel’s Secret Service and the Occupation
In recent years Israel's control over the Palestinian people in the occupied territories has changed. While the presence of the Israeli army has been greatly reduced, the occupation has taken a more...
View ArticleLia Tarachansky: Israel denies food and entry to 20 Eritrean refugees
Israel's anti-refugee policy reached a new peak this week when Ha'aretz reported that a group of 20 asylum seekers was being denied entry and was stuck in the fenced area between the Sinai Desert in...
View ArticleLia Tarachansky: Israeli Defense Minister rumored cooling on attacking Iran
According to local press, the Israeli leadership has been "climbing down from the tree" this week with a distinct change in tone from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding attacking Iran. The...
View ArticleWally Shawn: On the necessity of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine
Actor Wally Shawn explains why the Russell Tribunal on Palestine is, at this moment in time, crucial, and why you should join.
View ArticleSeven Deadly Myths
Upcoming documentary profiles Israeli journalist Lia Tarachansky's return to the settlement where she grew up, to uncover a buried history and a landscape of denial. The film tells the stories of four...
View ArticleAl Jazeera, Empire: Palestine – state of play
The dawn of a Palestinian state has been a long time coming. After 65 years of dispossession, 45 years of occupation, and 20 years of failed peace attempts, on Thursday Palestine took one step closer...
View ArticleLia Tarachansky: Lieberman resignation and Israeli elections 2013
On Sunday, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman stepped down from his post following charges arising from a 13-year investigation against him. 972 Magazine's Noam Sheizaf analyses Lieberman's...
View ArticleLia Tarachansky: Israeli army killing Palestinian protestors with impunity...
Last week, in one of the first actions of its kind, activists released the names of Israeli soldiers involved in the killing of a Palestinian protester. Mustafa Tamimi, a 28 year-old demonstrator from...
View ArticleLia Tarachansky: Zionjuana – Netanyahu headlines Birthright rally
Since 1999, over 300,000 young Jews from around the world have embarked on the free, 10-day tour of Israel known as Taglit-Birthright. It’s considered the most effective means of connecting the next...
View ArticleIsrael’s ‘Prisoner X’ was Australian Mossad agent, documentary claims
HRW's Bill van Esveld: "The main concern is over the fact that a person cannot simply be disappeared. That is against the norms of international law. That person's family needs to know what has...
View ArticleAdalah: Discriminatory-laws database
On the occasion of the swearing in of the new Israeli government and the 19th Knesset (18 March 2013) and the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (22 March 2013), Adalah is...
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