A district court in Israel ruled on Monday, January 11, that the screening and distribution of actor and director Muhammad Bakri’s documentary film Jenin, Jenin (2002) should be banned throughout the country, and that authorities should seize all 24 cinematic copies of the film. Lod District Court Judge Halit Silash also ruled that actor and director…
In the wake of pressure from far-right and racist Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev (Likud), the mayor of Ma’alot-Tarshiha in northern Israel, Arkady Pomeranets, canceled a screening of the documentary film Advocate that was to be held at the Docaviv Galilee Festival last Saturday night, November 10. Advocate, depicts the life and work of…
A report published by the Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research reveals that for 17 years, the Director of Security of the Defense Establishment (DSDE), a Ministry of Defense division, has, without any legal authority to do so, ordered denying public access to individual documents and entire files in various official Israeli archives relating to…
Israeli law enforcement agencies are not revealing to detainees which of their social media posts led to the issuance of a warrant for their arrest and their subsequent detention. This practice is being employed disproportionally against Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel and seriously impairs their ability to defend themselves. Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab…
Arab-Palestinian film director and actor Mohammad Bakri, a citizen of Israel, should be prosecuted for visiting an enemy country after he participated in the “Palestine Days” festival in Beirut, wrote Culture Minister Miri Regev in a letter to Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit on Sunday, September 24. Culture Minister Regev is asking the attorney general to investigate…
Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel has sent a letter to Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, State Attorney Shai Nitzan, and Cyber Unit director Haim Vismonsky demanding that they immediately cease the illegal operations of the state attorney’s Cyber Unit. The unit began operation during the second half of 2015 and is responsible…
Israel’s Government Press Office (GPO) invalidated the press credentials of an Al-Jazeera reporter on Wednesday, August 16. Far-right Communications Minister Ayoub Kara demanded that the credentials of Elias Karram, a senior reporter at Al-Jazeera’s Jerusalem bureau, be revoked as part of the minister’s efforts to shut down the Qatari-owned cable news channel in Israel. GPO…
A public service announcement (PSA) from the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) has been banned from television because of its message in support for gay marriage and the rights of the Arab-Palestinian minority in Israel. The Second Authority for Television and Radio, the public body that supervises Israel’s commercial television and radio stations,…
Artists and organizations for human rights and for peace will be presenting at 12:00 today, Friday, February 5, a special performance entitled Blacklisted: a Show with a Glimmer of Hope. The event will take place at Hangar 11 in the Port of Tel Aviv. Entry is free. Among the participants are leading Israeli artists like…
“We will not apologize for the struggle against assimilation – it is a strategic threat,” MK Ya’acov Margi (Shas) said on Wednesday, January 6, at the start of a session of the Knesset’s Education, Sports and Culture Committee. Margi chairs this committee and he was referring to the Education Ministry’s decision to remove from the…