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MK Hanin Zoabi (photo: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)

Attorney General: MK Zoabi likely to stand trial for incitement

The decision is just one of several that have targeted the Arab Knesset member over the past year. Israel’s Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein announced Tuesday that he has decided to indict MK Haneen Zoabi (Balad) for incitement to violence and disgracing a public official. Weinstein summoned Zoabi to a pre-indictment hearing, upon the recommendation of several…

By Edo Konrad January 6, 2015

Palestinians use a ladder to climb over the Israeli wall in A-Ram, north of Jerusalem, on their way to Al-Aqsa mosque, in the Old city of Jerusalem to attend the second Friday prayer in the fasting month of Ramadan, 19 July 2013. (Photo by: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)

From Ramadan ordeals to housing protests: A week in photos – July 18-24

This week, West Bank Palestinians make their way to Jerusalem to pray in al Aqsa Mosque during the holy month of Ramadan, African asylum seekers protest the country’s Anti-Infiltrator Law outside the attorney general’s home, an Israeli human rights worker is shot by Israeli forces and Israelis demonstrate for housing rights. …

By Activestills July 25, 2013

Israeli bulldozers seen in the settlement of Halamish showing the continued building and expansion of the settlement on the lands of the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, April 19, 2013. (Photo by: Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

When it comes to West Bank outpost, attorney general aids in bypassing the law

Contrary to a High Court ruling, Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein has ordered the government to refrain from removing 30 structures from the Amona outpost. One hopes that this time, the court will put Weinstein in his place for a change. By Yesh Din (written by Yossi Gurvitz) When a government office issues a press release…

By +972 Magazine July 23, 2013

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Immigration police arresting an Eritrean refugee, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2/3/2008 (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

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…

By Natasha Soffer-Roth July 10, 2013

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein (photo: Oyoyoy/CC BY-3.0)

Attorney General comes out against law allowing discrimination

A new bill allowing discrimination against Israelis who don’t serve in the army contradicts some of Israel’s Basic Laws, Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein wrote in an opinion published Sunday evening. The bill, he added, will hurt population groups which are already discriminated against. According to the draft legislation, favoring people who served in the IDF…

By Noam Sheizaf June 17, 2013

So unimportant, he's honored by two ministers and a general. Dov Lior, 2006 (Photo: Yossi Gurvitz)

Case dropped against authors, endorsers of gentile-killing manual

Israel’s attorney general decided to drop the case against racist book “Torat Ha’Melech” – since its racism was couched in religious terms. The prosecution, backed by Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein, announced Monday that it is dropping the case against rabbis Yizhak Shapira, Yoseph Elizur, Dov Lior and Yizhak Ginzburg. The first two wrote a book…

By Yossi Gurvitz May 29, 2012

All signs point to Israel’s weak democracy

The assassination of Zuhair al-Qaissi, which sparked the escalation in the south, points to Israel’s weak Supreme Court, a lack of transparency and accountability, and the state’s flip attitude towards its judicial branch–as do some street signs in Tel Aviv The recent escalation between Israel and Gaza began after Israeli forces assassinated Zuhair al-Qaissi, a leader…

By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat March 14, 2012