Gush Shalom sent this morning an urgent letter to Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein, calling upon him to immediately launch a criminal investigation against the leaders of the “Lehava” organization, on charges of incitement to murder. This letter was sent following a fiery Lehava communiqué published in the aftermath of a racist murder which was perpetrated … Read more
To maintain and strengthen the peace with Egypt, we must end the occupation and make peace with the Palestinians. Only one who has lost all basic human feeling can oppose the aspiration of masses of young Egyptians, mostly secular, to live in a democracy and enjoy the basic rights which citizens of Israel take for … Read more
Nuri al-Okbi collapsed on way to prison cell – now hospitalized at Assaf Harofeh Hospital. Nuri al-Okbi, head of the Association for Protection of the Rights Bedouins in Israel and also active for the rights of the Arab residents of Lod, many of whom were originally Negev Bedouins, was sentenced to seven months imprisonment on … Read more
Less than a month after Gush Shalom turned to the Attorney General Milstein was fired – now the job has to be finished by also disbanding the racist militia. Uri Avnery: “The mayor did well when he stopped the campaign of incitement in Karmiel by Milstein. Now he has to finish the job and immediately … Read more
If the Knesset adopts the racist “Admissions Committee Bill” we will appeal to the Supreme Court. The nature of the bill is exposed in the appointment of a representative of the Jewish Agency to the Appeal Committee which is supposed to protect Arabs from discrimination. The cat is made responsible for guarding the cream. The … Read more
Dutch police raided offices of company leasing cranes for building West Bank Separation Fence and settlements, on suspicion of violating International Law A few days ago, the Dutch police’s National Crime Squad raided the offices of the Riwal Holding Group in the city of Dordrecht, confiscating computers documents relating to the leasing of cranes owned … Read more
In a letter to the Attorney General, the Gush Shalom movement asked to disband immediately the so-called “City Guard” at Carmiel in the Galilee, which is actually a racist extreme right militia, and to launch an investigation against Deputy Mayor Oren Milstein who founded this body, as well as against police officials who helped in … Read more
In a letter to the Attorney General, the Gush Shalom movement asked to disband immediately the so-called “City Guard” at Carmiel in the Galilee, which is actually a racist extreme right militia, and to launch an investigation against Deputy Mayor Oren Milstein who founded this body, as well as against police officials who helped in … Read more
This week Israel’s security forces practiced the putting down of mass demonstrations and protests among Israel’s Arab citizens and their imprisonment in a large detention camp to be established at Golani Junction in Galilee. The exercise was based on a scenario of the riots being provoked by implementation of Avigdor Lieberman’s plan for “an exchange … Read more
Both were put in jail Tuesday for resisting deportation, Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire being stopped at Ben Gurion Airport; Dr. Edith Lutz at sea, on the way to Gaza on the Jewish Boat. After peace sailor Luzt was convinced that the Israelis who had been on the boat with her got safely … Read more