Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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
An Israeli protester marches along Route 60 in the West Bank during a joint Palestinian-Israeli demonstration against the occupation. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
What’s so threatening about human rights?
The Right doesn’t reject the concept of universal human rights because it threatens the Zionist project, they do so because it would mean seeing Palestinians as equals.  By Dror Etkes There is a positive aspect to the continuing, orchestrated campaign by Israel’s right-wing government and its helpers against “leftist” organizations, which many seem not to…
By +972 Magazine April 10, 2016
Eliezer Kaplan, with Moshe Shertok and David Ben-Gurion looking on and Zeev Sharef standing behind them, sign the Declaration of Independence at the Museum in Tel Aviv. (Zoltan Kluger/GPO)
We shall overcome: Israel’s adherence to human rights principles
Israel declares itself to be a light unto the nations. It also violates 15 of the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz When Israel was established, its founders made sure to emphasize, in its Declaration of Independence, the universal values of Jewish tradition: “The State of…
By +972 Magazine December 18, 2013
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