Tag Archive: Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu’s Effort to Isolate Human Rights Groups Backfires

The prime minister cancelled a meeting with the German foreign minister and drew attention to the issues.

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Movement for Freedom of Information Petition Paves the Way for an Open Government

NIF grantees are establishing a culture of governmental transparency.

For the Love of a Democratic Israel

Israel’s new boycott law sacrifices the great ideological pillars behind Israel’s establishment for political expediency in the service of a hard-line ethno-nationalist ideology. It now falls to the judiciary, to civil society, and to supporters of Israel to act as a check on the runaway train that is the Netanyahu government.

NIF CEO: Trump Signs Muslim Ban; Israel’s Government Enacts Progressive Ban

In response to the “Boycott Bill,” which passed in the Knesset today, New Israel Fund CEO Daniel Sokatch released the following statement . . .

Outposts and the Law

While the Israeli government complied with a court order to evacuate settlers from Amona, it is acting to double down on other settlements.

Condemnations Are No Longer Enough

Extremism in democratic societies is rooted in and expressed through politics. It’s time for Israel’s leaders to show greater responsibility.

Answering the President’s Call

We must continue to empower those who challenge hatred and violence, who insist that Israel do better, and who works towards restoring an Israel that we all can believe in.

The Path Forward

Together with our partners and allies in Israel and around the world we will do what we always do during difficult times: we will consider the challenges that lie ahead, consult and strategize, and then roll up our sleeves and get to work.

Price Tag Attacks Increase: Where is the Government?

Jews, Arabs and supporters of Israel from around the world came together on Sunday to protest the growing phenomenon of Price Tag attacks in Israel.

Approaching 100 Days of the (Third) Netanyahu Government

June 2013  This is the fifth installment of the “rolling document” series examining political developments in the nineteenth Knesset and in the thirty-third government. It aims to illuminate the connection between the political arena and our social one. This document highlights opportunities as well as concerns of relevance to the political work toward social change….