Israeli Knesset

Palestinian families denied rights by Israel's racist marriage laws

Charlotte Silver
27 January 2012
An Israeli law forbidding Palestinians gaining citizenship upon marrying an Israeli leaves thousands of families in limbo.

Israel jails asylum seekers, labels them "infiltrators"

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Tel Aviv
5 December 2011
An amendment to Israel’s “Prevention of Infiltration” law will mean prison time for asylum seekers and their children — as well as for those who offer them humanitarian aid.

World bodies must act now to save Lifta

Antoine Raffoul
London
2 December 2011
The World Monuments Fund rejected a petition to have Lifta, a destroyed and ethnically cleansed Palestinian village, officially included in their protected heritage site list.

Attempts to break Gaza blockade won't stop, vows Freedom Waves activist

Michelle Gyeney
28 November 2011
As the Australian delegate on the Tahrir boat with the recent Freedom Waves initiative, Michael Coleman recently confronted all of the barriers that the government of Israel could muster.

Israel shuts down Palestinian groups in Jerusalem

18 November 2011
The recent forced closures of Palestinian nonprofit organizations in Jerusalem is an example of the Israeli authorities’ continued attacks on the city’s Palestinian identity and their attempts to maintain control over occupied East Jerusalem, according to local human rights groups.

Knesset moves forward on bill granting Israel unchecked, draconian powers

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Jerusalem
22 September 2011
Israel’s use of administrative detention, expulsion and widespread closure of Palestinian cultural institutions will be fortified and backed by a bill that threatens to turn law-abiding citizens and organizations into “terrorists.”

Rights groups: anti-boycott law "effectively a legal annexation of W. Bank"

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Tue, 07/12/2011 - 16:16
Human rights groups in Israel are protesting the new Israeli law passed yesterday which “prohibits boycott of businesses, universities, and social and cultural institutions based in Israel and the illegal settlements, and imposes heavy financial sanctions against civil society organizations and businesses that participate in boycotts.”

Palestinian rights group submits petition to Israeli High Court to reverse "Nakba Law"

Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 16:48

Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel has submitted a petition to the Israeli High Court demanding that the government overturn its recent decision to criminalize commemoration of the Nakba — the ethnic cleansing and expulsion of 800,000 Palestinians before, during and after Israel declared itself a state in 1948.

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