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Israelis, drop your denial and recognize the Nakba
Israeli recognition of its role in the Palestinian catastrophe is essential for both communities to survive. Other societies in conflict already figured that out.
By
Dahlia Scheindlin
May 21, 2020
Between Poland’s Holocaust revisionism and Israel’s Nakba denial
Poland’s attempt to scrub clean its role in the murder of European Jewry is, at its core, no different from Israel’s attempt to erase the catastrophe that befell the Palestinians in 1948. By Haneen Zoabi The responses coming from Israel to the new Polish law, which forbids discussing war crimes committed by the Polish people…
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+972 Magazine
January 28, 2018
Are Israelis too scared to have opinions anymore?
A law barring public broadcasters from expressing opinions is just the latest in a long line of legislative and regulatory attempts to limit speech in Israel. At 3:24 a.m. on September 3rd, Israeli parliamentarians passed a controversial law to revamp the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the body responsible for public radio and television. At the…
By
Dahlia Scheindlin
September 10, 2015
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Court nixes building project, saves unique Nakba village
Lifta, the best-kept Palestinian Nakba village was saved on Monday, after a surprising verdict by the Jerusalem District Court canceled a 2004 construction plan to build a luxury housing complex on the site. UPDATE: I have received a message from Bimkom, a non-profit which took part in the effort to save Lifta, explaining that the court decision was to…
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Noam Sheizaf
February 7, 2012
Israel’s new Supreme Court: Liberalism don’t live here anymore
Recent rulings by the High Court and the the appointment of a rightwing settler signal the twilight of Israel’s juridical liberal-democratic period By Eyal Clyne Last week, Judge Noam Sohlberg was appointed to the Israeli Supreme Court (which, in Israel, is also the High Court of Justice, a court of judicial review carrying important constitutional…
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January 17, 2012
High Court ruling on ‘Nakba Law’ reveals its waning power
By Fady Khoury The decision by Israel’s Supreme Court to keep the Nakba bill intact demonstrates its capitulation to rightwing pressure and increasing struggle to survive as an independent body. The High Court of Justice (HCJ) on Thursday dismissed a petition submitted by Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in…
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+972 Magazine
January 7, 2012
High Court rejects NGOs’ petition against Nakba law
By Noa Yachot and Roi Maor The High Court of Justice dismissed on Thursday a petition contesting the so-called “Nakba Law,” which enables the state to reduce public funding for institutions that commemorate the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948. Read the ruling here (in Hebrew only). The law, passed in March of last year, originally sought…
By
Noa Yachot
January 5, 2012
SURVEY: Palestinian citizens demand social justice
A new survey of Arab citizens of Israel following waves of anti-Arab activity shows that most have not given up on Israeli society, but instead express strong support for social activism to advance Arab issues, general social problems, and an end to the occupation. With so much nastiness directed against them, it wouldn’t be surprising…
By
Dahlia Scheindlin
December 24, 2011
Knesset bill would formalize second-class status for Arab citizens
New Knesset bill aims to have “Jewish nature” of state preferred over democracy, cancel official status of Arabic, and have Jewish law “guide” courts’ rulings There is one talking point repeated in every hasbara (the Hebrew term for state sponsored propaganda) talk given by an Israeli representative, or in every booklet your campus’ Jewish Agency…
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Noam Sheizaf
August 4, 2011
Can South Africa provide the inspiration that Israel needs?
In the struggle to achieve justice and equality in a land that has yet to fulfill its promise, what role will be played by those from the iconic country of South Africa, which has transformed itself so remarkably towards justice and equality? By Hagai El-Ad I was recently in South Africa for a few days,…
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July 20, 2011
Now that boycott law passed, government to target High Court
Neve Gordon argues that the 'boycott bill' is a turning point in the erosion of Israeli democracy, and part of the Knesset's greater strategy in which the next target is the Supreme Court.
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+972 Magazine
July 18, 2011
Defying new law, Tel Aviv University to host Nakba event
Tel Aviv University will host a Nakba commemoration event next week that might be seen as a violation of the new Nakba Bill. The new law forbids public events “that mark the birth of Israel as a day of mourning;” its violation could lead to a withdrawal of funds from a state supported institution or…
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Noam Sheizaf
May 20, 2011
Why Jews need to talk about the Nakba
A personal journey A childhood memory: A group of kids and their teacher on a school trip. They are walking through excavations, listening to explanations from a tour guide about their ancestors who lived there two thousand years ago. After a while, one of the kids points to some ruins between the trees. “Are these…
By
Noam Sheizaf
May 14, 2011
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