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In Israel’s military court, one’s fate is sealed long before trial
For the vast majority of Palestinians in Israel’s military courts, keeping defendants in prison until the end of legal proceedings is the rule, not the exception. By Yael Stein A visit to Israel’s military court at Ofer Prison can be confusing. A sense of injustice pervades the place, but it is sometimes hard to put…
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+972 Magazine
June 23, 2015
Israel invites you to ‘like’ the occupation on Facebook
COGAT’s new Facebook page will not hide the fact that with every ‘like’ it receives, the occupation becomes more permanent in our minds. A few weeks ago, the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit launched its own Facebook page. COGAT, which operates under Israel’s Ministry of Defense, controls the blockade of the…
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Amjad Iraqi
June 21, 2015
You can boycott anything in Israel — except the occupation
The ‘boycott law’ won’t put an end to the BDS movement — its real importance lies in the criminalization of all opposition to the occupation. A few months ago, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman called for a boycott of businesses owned by Arab citizens of Israel. Such remarks — blunt racism directed at 20 percent…
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Noam Sheizaf
April 16, 2015
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PHOTOS: Gazans use ‘ceasefire’ to pick up the pieces
Photos and text: Anne Paq, Basel Yazouri / Activestills.org Tens of thousands of Palestinians returned to their homes across the Gaza Strip on July 26, after a 40-hour humanitarian ceasefire was agreed to between Israel and Hamas. Over 200,000 Gazans have been displaced since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge, due to Israeli airstrikes across…
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Activestills
July 27, 2014
Beitunia killings: Autopsy reveals Palestinian teen shot by live fire
An autopsy of Nadim Syam Nuwara, one of the two teenagers killed last month during the Nakba Day protests in Beitunia, reveals that that the teen was killed by live fire, according to a report by Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem. According to B’Tselem, Nuwara’s body has been well-preserved, making the point of entry and…
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Edo Konrad
June 12, 2014
Israel takes a page from the Guantanamo playbook
Netanyahu is pushing a new bill to allow the force-feeding of Palestinian hunger strikers. The prime minister is in good company. American practices at the prison at Guantanamo Bay are giving Benjamin Netanyahu ideas. Earlier this week, a draft bill authorizing the force-feeding of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners passed the first of three readings in the…
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Noa Yachot
June 11, 2014
Protest marking 47 years of occupation in Tel Aviv will ‘disrupt routine,’ police says
This week marks 47 years since the start of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights, the product of the Six-Day War that took place June 5-10, 1967. That is almost half a century, and nearly three-quarters of Israel’s entire existence. Like every year, the tiny Israeli left plans to hold…
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Mairav Zonszein
June 3, 2014
Who will protect Palestinian journalists?
Between shootings, beatings and arrests, Palestinian journalists are subject to violence and restrictions that their Israeli counterparts generally avoid. Last week at a protest in the West Bank city of Beitunia, a group of Palestinian protestors attacked Israeli journalist Avi Issacharoff and photographer Daniel Book. According to Issacharoff, he was told to leave the protest…
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Aziz Abu Sarah
May 24, 2014
Between south Hebron, the Jordan Valley and Israeli democracy
A couple of West Bank incidents from the last few days, and one final thought: 1. Israeli singer Ehud Banai, who was due to perform in the archaeological, Jews-only site of Susya in the south Hebron Hills, cancelled his gig following left-wing protests, then canceled the cancelation, stating that his decision (not to perform) “fanned…
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Noam Sheizaf
September 22, 2013
Why I oppose recognizing Israel as a Jewish state
A country can, at least in theory, be ‘Israeli and democratic.’ It cannot and will never be ‘Jewish and democratic.’ Early into his second term as prime minister, as he was presenting his conditions for negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a new demand for any final status agreement, one which…
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Noam Sheizaf
September 11, 2013
Knesset approves bill that could push Arab parties out
After a stormy night session, the coalition was able to pass the necessary amendments and election laws that would make it more difficult to topple a government and eliminate small factions. Left-wing and Palestinian members of Knesset protested the legislation in ‘silent speeches.’ Ultra-Orthodox MK Eichler spoke to the Arab public in Arabic, saying ‘we…
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Noam Sheizaf
August 1, 2013
In Israel’s trade catalog, arms and asylum seekers are equal commodities
With arbitrary arrest and detention, forcible transfer, withholding of basic human rights, the imposition of birth control measures and now an arms-for-asylum-seekers deal which amounts to little more than human trafficking, Israel has become a theater of horrors for Africans. A report in yesterday’s Yedioth Aharonoth (originally in Hebrew, and translated into English for their website) revealed…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
July 10, 2013
Pilot begins for Israel’s National Biometric Database program
New database will allow immediate access by security forces, without court order, to the face scan and finger prints of every Israeli. After several delays, the Interior Ministry on Monday will commence the two-year pilot stage of Israel’s National Biometric Database Program. When completed, the database will include the biometric information – a face scan…
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Noam Sheizaf
July 8, 2013
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