Israeli police in the village of Isawiyah have an agenda, and it involves brutality, incitement, humiliation, and violence.
Gideon Levy: Why Israeli Police Are Terrorizing This Palestinian Village
Category: Israeli governmental policies
“Yes, we are racists,” “Come, be my slave” — teaching by Israeli rabbi
Students at some military/religious colleges in Israel are being indoctrinated into Jewish Supremacy – this is not a new scandal, but evidence of virulent racism is stacking up against extremist rabbis.
Israeli occupation: a nightmare from which there’s no waking up
The Israeli occupation is a constant, chilling presence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and among Palestinians living in Israel: children and adults are routinely abducted, Israeli housing is built on Palestinian land while Palestinian homes are demolished – just a few examples from one “average” day.
In East Jerusalem, nightly raids leave Palestinian neighborhood reeling
For the past six weeks, Israel has been sending paramilitary police forces to raid the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya every evening. The raids, a severe form of collective punishment, have left one young Palestinian dead and hundreds wounded.
Netanyahu: Concern for Palestinian Rights Is “Crazy”
During a closed meeting that was inadvertently broadcast to journalists by an open microphone, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted the European Union’s approach to Israel, which conditions high levels of trade on human rights for Palestinians, as “crazy.”
Israeli military admits: open-fire policy needlessly killed protestors
Israel admits that live fire against Palestinian protestors has at times caused death when only serious injury was intended. Israeli snipers have killed 300 while gradually tweaking their limb-targeting approach. Now they “aim for the ankles,” likely only maiming the unarmed demonstrators. The Israeli Supreme Court has backed the lethal open-fire policy from day one.
The Protest Dispersed. Then an Israeli Sniper Shot a 9-year-old Boy in the Head.
From 100 meters away, an IDF soldier shot a Palestinian boy in the head in the West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum. The bullet exploded into dozens of fragments in the child’s brain and he’s now in an induced coma.
The irony of a McDonald’s boycott in Tel Aviv
Israeli settlers protest the “unlawful” boycott movement playing out in their midst by calling for a boycott of their own.
Israeli Forces Seize Palestinian Garbage Trucks, Detain Drivers
Israel has dumped its waste, much of it toxic, on Palestinian land for years. Now it has confiscated Palestinian garbage trucks and detained the drivers…
Israeli High Court: Palestinian homes “too close to the wall, must be demolished”
Palestinians built homes; years later Israel built a wall. Now Israel decrees that the homes must be demolished because they are too close to the wall.