Israel is failing to protect its Arab citizens
The rate of violent crime in Arab communities has soared since Netanyahu's far-right government took power
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Opinion The circumstances of Shireen Abu Akleh’s tragic death and funeral prove Israel has not learned from the past
As Sunday's Jerusalem Day march through the Muslim quarter approaches, I fear more violence is inevitable.
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Israel News Inspired by Black Lives Matter, Israelis protest police brutality
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…
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News ‘Palestinian Lives Matter’ trope resurfaces amid George Floyd protests
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…
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Life Video Voyeurism Is a Crime—Let’s Treat It Like One
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…
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Life Israel’s Police Sexual Harassment Problem
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…
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Opinion Israeli Police Ban Leftist Protests, Fearing Violence; O.K. Rightist Protests Despite Violence
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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