To Adv. Yehuda Weinstein – Attorney General Dear Sir We hereby ask you to launch a criminal investigation of the extreme-right organization known as “Lehava” [“Flame”], whose activities raise grave suspicions of incitement to racism and other criminal activities – which, in our humble opinion, merit and necessitate such an investigation. As reported extensively in … Read more
Saturday evening, December 4, 2010 — Forty-eight hours after the terrible fire broke out, racists can no longer stop their frustration at not getting what they wanted – a pretext for an all-out assault against the Arab population in Israel (including the Druze). “I don’t want negligence, I want vengeance on the arsonists!” so wrote … Read more
photo gallery For update on demonstration April 21, read the Haaretz report For the second time within a month, hundreds of intellectuals, writers and artists gathered today (November 7, 2010) to protest against the wave of racism that is flooding the country. This time, too, the protest took place opposite the building where David Ben-Gurion … Read more
photo gallery Close to 10 thousand demonstrators of all ages, Jews and Arabs, marched on Saturday (16.10.10) in the streets of Tel-Aviv in protest against the racist laws which are about to be enacted by the Knesset, headed by the law that requires non-Jews who ask for citizenship to swear allegiance to Israel as a … Read more
photo gallery [NB: Next demo, same spot, Sund. 7.11.10 from 3.30pm] 10.10.10 – “We are citizens of the Israel which was depicted in the Declaration of Independence, a peace-seeking country based on the principles of equality and civil liberties. We do not intend to be the citizens of a state purporting to be Israel which … Read more
photo gallery September 28, 2010 – “How can you demonstrate here, where a woman was killed by a Qassam? Why are you helping the Arabs and not us?” said a bypasser to the activists and family members who stood waiting and waving signs for hours across the street from the Ashdod police station. “The purpose … Read more
photo gallery The decision whether or not to continue the freeze on settlement construction is not a momentary, tactical decision. It is a strategic decision with implications for the State of Israel’s very future. Continued creation of “facts on the ground”, the ongoing takeover of Palestinian lands simultaneously with supposedly negotiating the fate of the … Read more
Justices Dorit Beinisch, Miriam Naor and Uzi Fogelman this morning (Monday) scolded Adv. Yochi Genessin of the State Prosecution, when it turned out that Interior Minister Eli Yishai did not answer a letter sent to him by Muhammad Abu Tir and three other Palestinian parliamentarians, who had called upon him to revoke the decision to … Read more
In a compromise reached between the petitioners from Gush Shalom and the State prosecutors, based on the suggestion of Judge Naor, it was agreed that if the Tirkel Committee will ask to investigate military officers, and the Government will not enable it, the issue will go back to court. The compromise was given the status … Read more
photo gallery The Gush Shalom petition to the Supreme Court achieved today (July 12, 2010) another victory. For the first time in Israel’s history, the court has decided to intervene in the government’s appointment of a commission of inquiry, something the court has refused to do many times in the past. The court has also … Read more