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Israeli border policemen detain a Palestinian man at a checkpoint in Beit Enoon, near the West Bank city of Hebron, April 4, 2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/FLASH90)
Guess which of these human rights Israel guarantees to Palestinians
The right to equality? The right to free movement in and out of the country? How about the right to freedom from arbitrary arrest and exile? Or the right to marriage and family? By Fady Khoury Everyone on Facebook is playing a game where they post nine concerts they’ve been to and one they haven’t.…
By +972 Magazine April 29, 2017
Palestinian men wait for their documents and belongings to be inspected by the Israeli army at a checkpoint outside the West Bank city of Bethlehem, March 19, 2017. (Anne Paq/Activestills.org)
Blacklists and travel bans aren’t new in Israel — the targets are
Palestinian activists and others have long faced actual travel bans, blacklists, and political persecution. Nevertheless, that some of the same methods are now being used against Israeli and American Jews is a worrying sign. One of the Israeli government’s senior-most ministers said last year that Israeli BDS advocates must be made to pay a price…
By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man March 22, 2017
An El Al plane is seen through a barbed wire fence at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
Israel’s travel ban strikes Liberal Zionism at its core
Israel’s new anti-BDS law is antagonizing some of the state’s most loyal supporters, rewriting a decades-old relationship. Israel ramped up its fight against the global boycott movement last week, when the Knesset passed its own travel ban: a new law barring entry to any non-citizen or non–permanent resident who has publicly called for or pledged to support a…
By Mairav Zonszein March 14, 2017
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