Police Arrested Hebrew University Prof. Shalhoub-Kevorkian

Hebrew University professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian was arrested on Thursday afternoon, April 18, on suspicion of incitement. She was transferred to the crime-fighting unit for investigation. Two weeks ago, the police recommended opening a criminal investigation against the lecturer. The head of investigations and intelligence in the police, Superintendent Yigal Ben Shalom, recommended to the prosecutor’s…

Racist Ben Gvir Forms Police Team Targeting Peace Activists in Occupied West Bank

Racist National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has established a special team within the Israeli Police force to target and arrest peace activists in the occupied West Bank, according to a Tuesday report. “I am invisible”: Well-known anti-occupation activist Rabbi Arik Ascherman, founder and director of Torat Tzedek (Torah of Justice), who was arrested several…

Israeli Academics Face McCarthyistic Campaign

The Israel Police are weighing whether to open an investigation against Tel Aviv University Dr. Anat Matar, a leading member of Academia for Equality. saying her online eulogizing on Tuesday, April 9, the late Palestinian prisoner Walid Daka may constitute “support of and incitement to terror.” Matar, a senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy,…

Poll: 71% Netanyahu Should Resign

Opinion polls show nearly three-quarters of the Israel public want far-right Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign, with half the country also preferring earlier elections for the Knesset, as tens of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets in recent weeks demanding new elections. Last days, the anti-government protesters have once again stormed the…