Tag Archive: civil rights
Kiryat Tivon Teacher Keeps His Job
A classroom discussion stirred a nationwide controversy over whether critical thinking belongs in civics classes.
Increased Transparency for Knesset Hearings
A request from NIF grantee the Social Guard will, for the first time, obligate roll calls for Knesset committees.
Who Are You Calling a Refugee?
Tel Aviv restaurant, coffee shop, and bar owners joined together with African refugees for a day of celebration and bridge-building.
Human Rights Worker Protects ‘Price Tag’ Settlers
After the tables were turned on the Price Tag attackers, Palestinian activists prevented further violence.
Asylum Seeker Protests Exploited to Undermine Israeli Democracy Advocates
A right-wing campaign is launched following the historical African refugee protests in Tel Aviv.
We Are Proud To Support Human Rights And Democracy
Since the massive asylum seekers demonstration in Tel Aviv on December 28th, there has been a coordinated and unprecedented right-wing campaign accusing NIF/SHATIL and its grantees of instigating the asylum seekers as part of a wider strategy aimed at transforming Israel into a “state of all its citizens.” This is one of the most concerted attacks on NIF for quite some time. For example, Ronen Shoval, who this week announced that he was resigning as Im Tirtzu chair, wrote the following in an op-ed: “Lurking behind the infiltrators is a series of organizations that seek to delegitimize Israel that are financed by foreign countries and funds (such as the New Israel Fund), whose goal is clear: to do away with Israel’s Jewish and democratic character.” Similar allegations have been made by a number of other right-wing figures.
Asylum Seekers March to Jerusalem
A group of around 200 Sudanese asylum seekers marched to Jerusalem in an attempt to gain official recognition of their refugee statuses. Most of the marchers have been imprisoned for almost two years and none of their asylum requests – which were filed with the assistance of NIF grantee Hotline for Refugees and Migrants (previously Hotline for Migrant Workers) – have been answered. Following the protest, they were arrested and transferred to Saharonim Prison, where they will be detained for two months before being returned to the newly established Holot detention center.
New Israel Fund-Supported Groups Win Key Court Victory for African Refugees
Washington DC: A landmark victory for human rights was won in Israel today when an expanded panel of the Supreme Court invalidated the Third Amendment to the Anti-Infiltration Law passed by the Knesset in 2012, which incarcerated more than 2000 African refugees without due process or recourse to the possibility of asylum.
Unpromised Land: Eritrean Refugees in Israel
Before coming to Israel, Rhuba never smoked cigarettes. Now, she smokes like a truck driver.
Her cheeks cave as she huffs the butts down in long, powerful draws, sending nimbus clouds of tobacco floating into the damp air of a south Tel Aviv bar.
Rhuba is 19, petite in bright blue jeans. She stares out from a matching blue hoodie drawn tight to her head, nearly obscuring the crimson pool of blood that fills her right eye. The left side of Rhuba’s face isn’t so concealed. A dark, amaranthine welt starts in an angry ball on her temple and sprawls out like skinny fingers across her cheekbones.
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