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Palestinian protesters evacuate a fellow demonstrator who was shot by an Israeli sniper during the Great Return March protest, east of Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, April 6, 2018. (Mohammed Zaanoun/Activestills.org)

Israel’s High Court just made an ICC investigation more likely

The court’s rejection of a lawsuit challenging the shooting of protesters in Gaza is a reminder that the Israeli legal system simply isn’t set up to investigate the policy makers and policies that result in alleged war crimes. Israel’s High Court of Justice may have just inadvertently increased the possibility that senior Israeli officials might…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man May 27, 2018

Kuzu Netanyahu snub (Screenshot)

WATCH: Dutch MP refuses to shake Netanyahu’s hand

‘Oh, okay,’ the Israeli prime minister responds to snub by breakaway former Labour MP. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went to the Netherlands on Tuesday as part of his efforts to, in his words, “instill gradually” in Europe the idea that Israel is “preventing the spread of radical Islamic terrorism.” According to press releases from the Prime Minister’s…

By +972 Magazine September 7, 2016

Major General Uzi Dayan on a tour of the West Bank with Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

How an IDF general whitewashed the killing of three innocent Palestinians

Maj. Gen. Uzi Dayan was trying to support a soldier charged with killing an unarmed Palestinian. Instead, he ended up confessing to a crime that could have severe repercussions at The Hague. By Yael Marom and John Brown* Late last week, Channel 2 news reported that three senior reserve officers — Maj. Gen. Uzi Dayan, Brig.…

By +972 Magazine August 22, 2016

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“Israel’s trusting that people will be ignorant.” Nada Kiswanson, a Palestinian-Swedish lawyer and representative of Al-Haq in The Hague, has been receiving persistent death threats since February 2016.

Who’s sending death threats to Palestinian advocates in The Hague?

In an interview with +972, the Hague representative of Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights group, talks about the slew of threats she and her organization have received for months, and why she believes the Israeli government is behind them. In a small ceremony in The Hague on April 1, 2015, the Palestinian Authority officially signed…

By Amjad Iraqi August 17, 2016

Khalida Jarrar, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and a leader in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, poses for a photo showing an internal expulsion order given to her by Israeli soldiers who invaded her home in Ramallah in the early hours of August 20, Ramallah, West Bank, August 27, 2014. Jarrar was ordered to go to Jericho within 24 hours, but she refused to sign the paper. She is determined to stay in a protest tent in front of the Palestinian Council in Ramallah until the decision is revoked.

Military court orders feminist Palestinian lawmaker released on bail

The military prosecution is planning to appeal the decision, and may even try to send Jarrar back into administrative detention. An Israeli military court rejected the military prosecutor’s request Thursday to detain Palestinian Legislative Council member Khalida Jarrar until the end of legal proceedings. Jarrar was arrest in April by Israeli soldiers. She was first…

By Haggai Matar May 23, 2015

Netanyahu and Abbas in Washington, September 15, 2010 (State Dept. Photo)

Talks with Israel might be a good move for Palestinians

Second thoughts on the ‘peace process’ resuming tonight. Maybe I’m trying to make something good out of a bad situation – I’ve written (here and here) that the Palestinians were getting screwed in these peace talks – but now I’m thinking that Abbas may have done the right thing by agreeing to negotiate with Netanyahu,…

By Larry Derfner July 29, 2013

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the staff and families at the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem on April 8, 2013. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]

Give the Palestinians a break, Kerry, and stay home

The U.S. secretary of state is pressuring the Palestinians to give up the one lever of power they have against the occupation. My fear is that Kerry will make good on his promise this week to return soon to Jerusalem and Ramallah, and that he will cajole Abbas into agreeing to talk “peace” with…

By Larry Derfner July 2, 2013

Good news – Israel publicly trashes Kerry’s peace mission

In remarks to Haaretz today, ‘senior Israeli official’ shows Netanyahu to be the rejectionist, making it easier for Abbas to take ‘unilateral’ steps soon. Well, that was quick. No sooner does John Kerry wind up his first trip to Israel-Palestine to restart the peace process than the Netanyahu government publicly trashes his plans. Haaretz diplomatic…

By Larry Derfner April 11, 2013