The Tel Aviv-based Association of Physicians for Human Rights has won this year’s Alternative Nobel Prize (Right Livelihood). It will be awarded in a ceremony to be held in the Swedish Parliament building on December 6 this year – four days before the official Nobel Prize awarding ceremony. The prize committee noted especially the association’s … Read more
The Jewish Peace Boat, sailing today, Sept. 26, from Cyprus in the direction of Gaza, is a reminder of the isolation which we in Israel bring upon ourselves. A country bound upon conquest and occupation, whose government is hostage to extremist settlers, is increasingly losing also the support of world Jewry. Gush Shalom, the Israeli … Read more
Tomorrow (Monday), the Supreme Court will hear the appeal of Palestinian parliamentarians from East J’lem, threatened with expulsion; Israeli peace activists to be present. Avnery: They were democratically elected, Jerusalem is their city where they have the right to live. Don’t deport them – talk to them! Tomorrow (Monday, August 6) at 9:00 am the … Read more
Most activists were left outside, as were several of Abu Tir’s family and friends, as “the courtroom was too small” Former MK Uri Avnery was present Monday during the deliberations of the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on the remand in custody of the Palestinian Parliamentarian Abu Tir, The deliberations, lasting four hours, ended without a decision. … Read more
Tomorrow, Wednesday June 30, the Supreme Court will hear our appeal to dismantle the Tirkel Committee and replace it with a Judicial Commission of Inquiry.Uri Avnery: “Even if the United States government was convinced to agree to a powerless, meaningless investigation, we as Israeli citizens, concerned for the future of our country, absolutely don’t agree.” … Read more
Supreme Court Judge Neal Hendel stated that a bench of three judges will within 21 days hear the petition filed by the Gush Shalom movement. In the appeal lodged through lawyers Gaby Lasky, Lymor Goldstein and Neri Ramati, “Gush Shalom” asked the Supreme Court to order the dissolution of the Tirkel Commission which is ” … Read more
Even if it wants to, the Tirkel Commission can’t probe the real issues and the international friends of Dore Gold won’t bite. Gush Shalom prepares appeal to the Supreme Court. The Gush Shalom movement intends to petition the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, challenging the validity of the Netanyahu Government’s decision to establish the Tirkel Commission … Read more
What took place at the Knesset House Committee had nothing to do with a democratic discussion or debate. The thuggish assault of Knesset members upon KM Hanin Zuabi. like the thuggish offensive of “Im Tirtzu” on The NewIsrael Fund, and like the attack of street thugs on Uri Avnery at Tel-Aviv’s Ibn Gvirol Street, is … Read more
Gush Shalom wrote to the Minister of the Interior – and considers a Supreme Court appeal – demanding clear and transparent criteria for who shall be denied entry into the country and for what arguments. “Such decisions cannot be left to anonymous officials and security operatives, who become a thought police and censor political opinions.” … Read more
The state’s expert witness in the Bedouin Land Case turns out to have written in a book the opposite of the opinion presented to the court. In the latest session of the Bedouin Land Case, conducted before Justice Sarah Dovrat of the Beersheba District Court, there were exposed inconsistencies and inaccuracies in the expert opinion … Read more