Israeli forces confiscated computers and camera memory cards from a detained Palestinian journalist

Israeli occupation forces on Thursday confiscated computers, mobile phones and camera memory cards from the office and home of a Palestinian journalist. Soldiers raided Amin Abu Warda’s office in Nablus at 3 a.m., his colleague Atef Douglas told Ma’an Palestinian news agency, and confiscated several items, including a work computer and mobile phone. Witnesses said…

Five activists arrested at Tel-Aviv protest against ‘infiltrator law’; Kiryat Malachi: A rally against racism

Hundreds of demonstrators, among them Hadash activists and communists, gathered in central Tel Aviv Tuesday night, blocking a central thoroughfare for over an hour to protest the “Bill to Prevent Infiltration”, passed late Monday night in the Knesset. Police arrested five demonstrators. Chanting “no concentration camps” and “deport the interior minister” among other slogans, the…

Dead Sea petition reaches 16,000 signatures

Ahead of the cabinet’s vote tomorrow (Sunday) about MK Dov Khenin’s (Hadash) comprehensive Dead Sea rehabilitation bill, activist groups are banding together to promote an online petition that aims to secure the salty body’s future. Launched about two weeks ago in a joint effort of global web activist group Avaaz, Adam Teva V’Din (Israel Union…

High Court rejects petition against ‘Nakba law’

The High Court of Justice dismissed on Thursday a petition contesting the so-called “Nakba law,” which enables the state to reduce public funding for institutions that commemorate the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948. The law, passed in March of last year, originally sought to criminalize the commemoration of the Nakba. Its latest version, called “Amendment 39…