Israeli police forces in occupied East Jerusalem, July 2019

Rights Groups: Israel’s Demolition of Palestinian Homes in Jerusalem Is Tantamount to Ethnic Cleansing

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor and HUMENA for Human Rights and Civil Participation said in a statement released on Saturday, August 10, that Israel’s systematic destruction of Palestinian homes and property in occupied East Jerusalem amounts to ethnic cleansing. Furthermore, the statement maintains that the US administration of Donald Trump implicitly paved the way for…

MK Ofer Cassif (first from left) during the "Fighting for Our Lives" march held in Tel Aviv last Sunday, July 28

Masses Protest Violence against Transgenders after Teen Stabbed

Nearly a thousand protesters marched in Tel Aviv Sunday evening, July 28, to denounce violence against Israel’s transgender community after a hate crime stabbing outside a local LGBT center left a teenager seriously injured. Under the banner “Fighting for Our Lives,” marchers made their way from the Florentine neighborhood to Rothschild Boulevard, where LGBT and transgender…