Right to Entry, December 5th In a new escalation of Israel’s policy of denying Palestinians and their families access to the Israeli occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), the Israeli Civil Administration at Beit El is refusing to accept at least 140 ...
Read More »Jerusalem Post: “Non-residents in territories threaten to sue Israeli gov’t”
by Dan Izenberg, December 3rd Foreign passport holders married to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and those of Palestinian descent who want to visit their extended families in the territories are considering filing a class action suit against ...
Read More »Palestinian families separated by Israel take action
Campaign for the Right of Entry/Re-Entry to the Occupied Palestinian Territory : Hundreds Of Foreign Nationals Meet To Consider Legal Action Against Israel For Denying Them Access To West Bank And Gaza (Al-Bireh, Occupied Palestine – November 28, 2006) – ...
Read More »UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calls for action against Israeli practice of separating families
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE by The Campaign for the Right of Entry, November 26th Concluding her visit to the Israeli occupied Palestinian territory, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour called on UN member states to take action against Israel’s ...
Read More »Israel issues final visas, splitting families
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE by the Campaign for the Right of Entry All foreign passports belonging to spouses and children of Palestinian ID-holders who had applied for visa extensions have recently been marked as “last permit” by the Israeli authorities. One ...
Read More »Scottish olive volunteer to be deported
by the ISM media team, November 15th Scottish postal worker Theresa McDermont, who came to volunteer for Rabbis for Human Rights during the olive harvest, is to be deported after a judge today rejected her appeal against denial of entry. ...
Read More »Jerusalem Post: “Rabbis for Human Rights volunteer held”
Theresa in the Bengurion airport detention centre after being prevented by Israel from attending the Celebrating Nonviolence conference in Bethlehem last December. UPDATE: Theresa remains in detention after an Israeli judge today postponed a decision on her appeal against denial ...
Read More »Scottish Rabbis volunteer threatened with deportation during olive harvest
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Theresa McDermont, a volunteer from Scotland who came to pick olives with Palestinian farmers and Israeli rabbis today sits in an Israeli detention cell, awaiting deportation. She is not being charged with any crime. Theresa, a post ...
Read More »What Does it Take for a Palestinian to Get a US Visa?
by Shlomo Bloom, Sunday 8th October In order to educate Americans about the situation in Palestine, two Palestinian activists are going on a speaking tour of the United States. ‘M’, one of the organizers behind a successful campaign of non-violent ...
Read More »Boston Globe: “Israeli Policy divides Palestinian families”
by Matthew Kalman, September 23rd Immigration crackdown in West Bank EL-BIREH, West Bank — Nariman Yazbak and her 2-year-old daughter, Salma, left their home in the West Bank town of El Bireh last April for a routine visit to relatives ...
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