Tag: Michael Sfard

  • IDF to probe death of Palestinian protester at West Bank rally

    Anshel Pfeffer | Ha’aretz 12 July 2010 The Military Advocate General on Monday ordered the army’s criminal investigations unit to investigate the death of a Palestinian protester who was killed by a tear gas canister at a demonstration in Bil’in in April 2009. The Military Advocate General had refused to open a criminal investigation into…

  • 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…

  • Back to Warsaw 1968

    Michael Sfard | Ha’aretz 3 September 2009 When my father was 21, he was arrested. Secret service agents tailed him everywhere for a few weeks, and the stress over whether and when he’d be shackled ate at him. Above all, it killed his aged parents. Many members of the student union were arrested with him.…

  • Israel declares the shooting of American activist, Tristan Anderson to be an “act of war”

    For Immediate Release 18 August 2009: Israel declares the shooting of American activist, Tristan Anderson to be an “act of war.” Tristan Anderson, an American national, was critically injured on 13 March 2009 when he was shot with a high velocity tear-gas projectile during an unarmed demonstration against the Wall in the West Bank village…

  • Rights group warns of growing settler violence

    Efrat Weiss | YNet News 10 June 2009 Palestinian farmers in the West Bank are paying the price for the government’s efforts to evacuate illegal outpost in the region, data published by human rights group Yesh Din on Wednesday revealed. According to the organization, in recent weeks there has been an alarming rise in the…