Together let’s stand in solidarity and get to know Issawiyeh up close. Aneighborhood of 20,000 residents in eastern Jerusalem that has suffered fromhorrific police suppression and brutality for over half a year. Come hearabout the violent reality that the police has created as well as how to takepart in protest efforts with the broad coalition … Read more
If you’re like me, you are INFURIATED by Trump who just signed an executive order on Wednesday that claims to combat antisemitism on college campuses but actually is designed to shut down Palestinian rights activists. It is a racist, repressive attempt to silence students and academics. The fight is just getting started, and we can’t … Read more
Dr. Ashrawi: Israel attempts to erase Palestinian presence in Jerusalem by shutting down more Palestinian institutions “We strongly condemn Israel’s closure of several Palestinian institutions in occupied Jerusalem, including the Office of the Directorate of Education, Palestine TV offices and the Al-Rasasi mosque. This is a continuation of the Israeli government’s campaign against everything Palestinian … Read more
I am making this special, personal appeal to you to urge you to join one of our most wonderful projects here at Physicians for Human Rights Israel – medical days in the West Bank. We treat several hundred patients in our mobile clinic, but this contact has a ripple effect that reaches many others – … Read more
“I go on refusing to enlist and getting again and again imrisoned, in protest of the IDF’s role in the occupation, hoping to contribute to a more open and honest discussion of the alternatives for Israel’s future.” A quick update to let you know that conscientious objector Yasmin Ricci-Yahav arrived last Monday at Israeli Army’s … Read more
Today – 52 years to the day since Israel began occupying the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, and against the backdrop of measures undertaken by the Trump administration to promote its “deal of the century”– B’Tselem launched a new interactive project illustrating Israel’s encroachment upon Palestinian space over the decades, shattering the … Read more
Israeli-Palestinian Congress of Female Students. 60 Israeli & Palestinian Female Students Negotiating Peace in Tel Aviv The Arab-Hebrew Theater, Mifrats Shlomo Promenade 10, Tel Aviv, Israel – Sunday, April 14, 2019, 9AM – 4PM. Can young Israeli & Palestinian female students make history? Can they reach an agreement on solutions to one of the most … Read more
We are horrified, ashamed, bewildered, as we face more of Netanyahu, and this time, Netanyahu unleashed. The saga of his fight for personal survival, at the expense of others, with all means legitimate, will be studied in the future. But here we all are, about to pay a terrible price for allowing our country to … Read more
The “Bible Lands Museum” in West Jerusalem in collaboration with Israel’s occupation authority is exhibiting, under the Title “Finds Gone Astray”, archaeological artifacts stolen from theOccupied Palestinian Territories . As noted by the Israeli advocate-activist Ithay Mak, these artifacts were confiscated from robbers who had conducted illegal diggings in the Palestinian Territories in order to … Read more
Anyone who does not allow their national affiliation blind their moral judgment should oppose the prison sentence and fine imposed on Sheikh Sayyakh Al-Touri. This is a typical case of the law clashing with morality and justice, turning law enforcement into a crime! Here are the main facts: in 1905 Sheikh Sayyakh’s grandfather purchased land … Read more