Tag Archive: democracy
Bring NIF Values to Your Passover Seder
Three rabbinical students taking part in an NIF Fellowship prepared these holiday cards.
Music Drowns Out the Hate at a Noa Concert
Israeli superstar Noa’s courageous advocacy for equality brings out the agitators. But they couldn’t stop her performance in Mitzpeh Ramon.
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.
Leading the Fight Against Outpost Law
The controversial law allowing the take-over of Palestinian property in the West Bank will face a legal challenge brought by civil society groups.
AG to Jerusalem Mayor: You Can’t Limit Freedom of Expression
A pattern of discrimination against progressive Israelis is about to come to an end.
New Israel Fund CEO, VP Detained at Ben Gurion Airport Respond to Israel Denying Visas to Human Rights Watch:
“Every country has the right to decide to whom to grant visas. But having that right doesn’t make it any less wrong for Israel to decide to bar the entry of our colleagues at Human Rights Watch. . . this may be legal, but it’s morally unacceptable and anti-democratic.”
Mobilizing Dissent: How We Responded to Jen’s Detention
I am proud of the message that we sent to the authorities: democracies don’t shut down or keep out dissenting voices. Rather, they welcome the debate. That is the essence of democratic society.
Israel Moves to Cancel Mandate-Era Law Limiting Press Freedoms
The ordinance has blocked the establishment of dozens of newspapers in the past decade alone.
Israel Announces 1 Billion Shekel Plan for Public Housing
Six years after the social protest movement, Israel has unveiled an unprecedented new investment in public housing.
OpEd: American Jews Are New Target of Israel’s Unprecedented Escalation Against Civil Society
In this op-ed, which was originally published in Haaretz, NIF VP of Finance, Operations and Administration Jennifer Gorovitz writes: “Given Netanyahu’s repression of dissent, perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised that Israel’s border control considered me a ‘national security risk’.”