Following is the appeal we got from Jim Klutznick of Americans for Peace Now. I’ve been devoting much of my life to activism in support of Israel’s future wellbeing, advocating for peace and security, working to bolster Israel as a democracy and a Jewish state, living side by side in peace with a sovereign Palestinian … Read more
Already for fifty years, successive Israeli governments maintain military rule over the Palestinian people, denying their most basic rights and depriving them of liberty, incidentally plunging Israel’s own society into repeated crises and poverty. Today, Friday March 3, 2017 at 11:00 am, at the “Black Platform” square in the corner of Herzl and Rothschild in … Read more
Tomorrow, Sunday, March 5, 2017, at 9.30 am, Judge Ron Sokol of the Haifa District Court, will resume deliberations on the government of Israel’s demand to confiscate the boat Zaytouna-Oliva, captured last year by the Israeli Navy in international waters (see following background). The proceedings will be held in room 617 at the court building … Read more
On Saturday night, Feb. 4, at 7:30 pm – a march in Tel Aviv, starting on Magen David Square (corner of Allenby and King George) and culminating with a on Dizengoff Street (near Dizengoff Square). This is the moment to stand together! We will not let them separate us! We will not let racism, discrimination … Read more
2016 saw more house demolitions in east jerusalem then any year since 1967 15 minutes from Jerusalem’s center the people of Ein Al Loze in SIlwan live under constant threat of home demolitions. They cannot receive building permits and the municipality systematically rejects any master construction plan.Municipal inspectors and police officers enter the neighborhood on … Read more
Knesset Member Dov Khenin of Hadash charged Prime Minister Netanyahu with deliberately inciting against the country’s Arab citizens and setting the police to brutal raids – with the deliberate intention of distracting attention from the ongoing police investigation into charges of corruption against the PM. “The deeper the police investigation of Netanyahu, the wider the … Read more
The Nazareth Magistrate’s Court, under Judge Adi Bambiliya, will today – Thursday, January 26, at 9:00 am – resume deliberations in the trial of poet Dareen Tatour. The prosecutor is planning to continue and finish the counter interrogation of Dareen in this hearing. Some other witnesses for the defense should also testify. The presence of … Read more
In Washington, large protests expected at the Trump inauguration; also in Tel Aviv, an anti-Trump is due opposite the US embassy, on Sat. January 21 According to reports from the US, tens and hundreds of thousands of people are converging on Washington D.C. and the protests at Trump’s Inauguration are expected to be among the … Read more
“Hélène Le Gal, French Ambassador to Israel, met today with Professor Eli Barnavi (former Israeli Ambassador to Frenace) , Professor Galia Golan, Susie Becher and former Ambassador Ilan Baruch, members of the Policy Work Group. During the meeting, they gave to the Ambassador a petition signed by 1,200 Israelis, who support the French Peace Initiative … Read more
Robi Damelin, an Israeli bereaved mother whose son – an IDF officer – was killed by a Palestinian sniper during the Second Intifada, gave to the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) a watch bearing the flags of Israel and Palestine, and the word “Peace” in Hebrew, Arabic and English. That was at the climax … Read more