Shmuel Eliahu

How is Israel reflected by recent judicial decisions? (Photo: Orangesparrow, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

This week’s legal developments signal human rights decline

From arresting activists for erasing graffiti, to proposing a law preventing asylum seekers from sending money they earn abroad: What several judicial and juristic decisions in the past week tell us about contemporary Israel. First incident: Last weekend, our kindly goons detained a group of Ta’ayush activists who visited the Palestinian unrecognized village of Susya.…

By Yossi Gurvitz July 13, 2012

Jewish terrorism follows Zarqawi and Goldstein. The burned mosque in Tuba Zangariya (Photo: Activestills)

Muslim and Christian cemeteries desecrated in Jaffa

“Price tag” pogromchiks desecrated cemeteries in Jaffa, as part of their attempts to cause a civil war Hoodlums whose pride is their Jewishness have desecrated last evening – according to testimonies, less than an hour before Yom Kippur – two cemeteries in Jaffa. One of the cemeteries was Muslim, the other Orthodox Christian. The hoodlums…

By Yossi Gurvitz October 8, 2011

Gideon Spiro and daughter, Jerusalem, April 2010 (Photo: Yossi Gurvitz)

Journalist and activist Gideon Spiro arrested for “incitement”

Gideon Spiro, 76, was arrested and released on Monday for what the police considered, apparently groundlessly, to be incitement. A Tel Aviv Police investigator arrested Monday Gideon Spiro, a veteran leftist activist aged 76, for suspected incitement relating to an article he had written. Spiro was discharged two hours later, after his attorneys – from…

By Yossi Gurvitz June 6, 2011

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Jewish brotherhood burning of bread ritual carried out in public (Yossi Gurvitz)

Nobody mentions the Jewish Brotherhood

Israelis bemoan the alleged rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, ignoring their own local variety While Israelis pay plenty of attention to the fear of the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, they steadfastly ignore the rise of the Jewish brotherhood in their own country. The motto of the MB is “Islam is…

By Yossi Gurvitz February 5, 2011

Israeli racist rabbis not afraid of the law

Fifty rabbis demand Jews will not rent apartments to gentiles – and the law seems to defend them. Fifty Israeli rabbis, mostly municipal chief rabbis – that is, officials drawing their salary from public funds – published this morning a psak, religious ruling, forbidding Jews to rent or sell apartments to Arabs. One of them,…

By Yossi Gurvitz December 7, 2010

An act of hactivism: a racist email raises hackles & ends up educating

When racism becomes too ludicrous for comfort About a week ago, the deputy mayor of Carmiel, a man named Oren Milstein, was stupid enough to boast to a Yediot Ahronot reporter that he is operating, along with some shadowy group, a “snitch hotline”, which the good Jewish residents of Carmiel were invited to call and…

By Yossi Gurvitz November 1, 2010