Dozens of Israelis arrested for social media posts defending Gaza, advocates say
In addition to the arrests, 70 students are facing disciplinary action from their schools over posts about the conflict
In addition to the arrests, 70 students are facing disciplinary action from their schools over posts about the conflict
The rate of violent crime in Arab communities has soared since Netanyahu's far-right government took power
As Sunday's Jerusalem Day march through the Muslim quarter approaches, I fear more violence is inevitable.
Israeli police were caught on camera earlier this month brutally beating 24-year old David Biton over a face mask. In a jerky, low-resolution cellphone video shared widely over the internet, Biton, who had been stopped for failing to adhere to the country’s social distancing regulations, could be seen laying on the ground crying out in…
Online outcry in the aftermath of the killing of an unarmed black man by a Minneapolis police officer has seen a smattering of protesters comparing American police brutality to the killings of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers — a return to rhetoric common in the early days of the Black Lives Matter movement. Singer and model…
A few months ago, a fifteen-year-old girl named Lee was taking a shower, she thought alone. When she went to school the next day and found her classmates laughing at her, she learned that a boy in her school in Beersheba had installed a camera in the stall. Now, thanks to Whatsapp, her naked body…
Israel police officers by Mark Probst via Wikimedia Commons. There has been an earthquake in the Israeli police force, and the institution may never be the same again. No less than three senior police officers have been accused of sexual harassment in the past two weeks, including one who is now under house arrest, and…
Police in metropolitan Tel Aviv are refusing to authorize a planned protest march in the largely Orthodox city of Bnei Brak by a secularist group called Forum for Equality of Burden, which advocates ending the automatic draft exemption for Haredi yeshiva students. Ynet reports that the forum announced plans to march through downtown Bnei Brak…
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