Category: In the Media

  • IDF still using banned weapon against civilian protestors

    Chaim Levinson | Ha’aretz 19 September 2010 The Israel Defense Forces continues using the Ruger 10/22 rifle to disperse protests even though it has been prohibited by the military advocate general, a hearing at a military court revealed last week. A brigade’s former operations officer told the court he wasn’t even aware of the prohibition.…

  • B’Tselem: Probe IDF soldiers over deaths of Palestinian civilians

    16 September 2010 | Haaretz New report concludes no IDF soldier has been indicted for such deaths over the last four years [The full report can be accessed here – file opens as pdf] A new report by the human rights group B’tselem concludes that during the past four years not a single IDF soldier…

  • Israeli police accused of targeting Jerusalem’s Arab residents

    11 September 2010 | The Independent A leading civil-rights group has accused Israeli police of systematic discrimination against the Arab residents of East Jerusalem as growing numbers of hardline religious Jews take up residence in Palestinian areas. A report from the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (Acri) found that violent confrontations between Jewish residents…

  • Why Israel imprisoned my best friend

    2 September 2010 | Mohammed Khatib, The Electronic Intifada When I was a boy I was still allowed to travel in Israel. I went to the beach and swam in the sea, something that most Palestinian children living in the West Bank today can only dream of. Israel has been restricting movement more and more…

  • Israeli academics boycott West Bank settlements

    31 August 2010 | BBC News More than 150 Israeli academics say they will no longer lecture or work in Jewish settlements in the West Bank. In a letter, they said they supported the recent decision by a group of actors and others not to take part in cultural activity there. The academics said that…