Tag: Ha’aretz
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State won’t prosecute officers filmed beating Palestinians
Liel Kyzer | Ha’aretz 21 October 2009 Deputy State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan rejected an appeal against the decision not to investigate Border Police officers who documented themselves abusing Palestinians. The appeal was filed by the Yesh Din human rights group. Senior deputy to the state prosecutor Nechama Zusman wrote last week on Nitzan’s behalf that…
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Jane Fonda joins boycott of Toronto film festival over homage to Israel
Ha’aretz 5 September 2009 Jane Fonda, Danny Glover and Eve Ensler have joined the growing list of artists who are boycotting the Toronto film festival over a program honoring Tel Aviv’s 100th anniversary, gossip blogger Perez Hilton reported on Friday. The three have added their names to a letter aimed at festival officials claiming that…
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Plans for largest East Jerusalem settlement filed for approval
Nir Hasson | Ha’aretz 22 August 2009 A plan for the building of a new settlement, Ma’aleh David, in the middle of an Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem was filed for approval by the relevant municipal committee at the Jerusalem Municipality. The plan calls for the construction of 104 housing units on the land where…
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Palestinians teens visit Israel on ‘Birthright Replugged’
Ha’aretz 20 August 2009 Fourteen-year-old Jum’a Ismail lives 50 km from the Mediterranean but had never seen the sea. The Palestinian youth had never set eyes on an Israeli civilian or an airport. Juma’a’s horizons expanded this summer, when he left Jalazoun refugee camp in the West Bank with “Birthright Replugged” on a trip taking…
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Israel toughens entry for foreigners with West Bank ties
Amira Hass | Ha’aretz 13 August 2009 Israel has recently been putting up more obstacles for foreign nationals who enter the country if they have family, work, business or academic ties in the West Bank. It now restricts their movements to “the Palestinian Authority only.” The people concerned are citizens of countries that have diplomatic…