JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
I am dreading Sunday’s Jerusalem Day parade like never before. Because the Israeli police force that is supposed to provide protection as a hateful, ultra-nationalist Israeli parade marches through the Old City’s Muslim quarter is the very same one that assaulted mourners two weeks ago for carrying Palestinian flags at the funeral of a journalist…
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…
