Land Day in annexed east Jerusalem (Photo: Activestills)

Arab-Palestinians in Israel rally to mark Land Day

Arab-Palestinians in Israel were on Sunday commemorating Land Day with rallies remembering six of their number who were shot dead during a 1976 demonstration against land seizure. In the northern Israeli town of Arrabe, more than 15,000 people turned out for the main demonstration, many waving Palestinian flags. A gathering was also taking place in…

Hadash affiliated Red-Pink Movement in a demonstration for LGTB rights (Photo: Red-Pink Movement)

LGTB anti-discrimination law

The Knesset “cleaned its table” Tuesday, the second-to-last day of its winter session, voting bills on various topics. One of the new laws passed makes it illegal for schools to discriminate against pupils because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. MK Dov Khenin (Hadash), who proposed the bill, pointed out that it is the…

Demonstration against racism in Shapira quarter in south Tel-Aviv, April 2012 (Photo: Activestills)

95% of public concerned about racism in Israel

An overwhelming majority of the Israeli public, some 95  percent, believes Israeli society is plagued by racism, a new poll has found.  The poll, released Sunday ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which is observed on March 21, was held as part of the “Racism – Not in Our Schools”…

International Woman's Day rally in Nazareth (Photo: Al Ittihad)

Women in Israel: Earn 30 percent less than men

The average monthly salary in 2012 was NIS 10,953 for men compared to NIS 7,244 for women – meaning women earned 66.1 percent of the average male salary. These figures were taken from a Central Bureau of Statistics  (CBS) report released on Tuesday ahead of International Woman’s Day. The rate of labor force participation of…

Water truck at Khirbet Jenbah, South Hebron Hills. Village is not hooked up to water grid (Photo: Activestills)

B’Tselem: Undeniable discrimination in the amount of water allocated to Israelis and Palestinians

Following the Knesset debate today, B’Tselem publishes a short FAQ about inequality in the distribution of water between Palestinians and Israelis. – Is there discrimination in terms of the quantity of water available to Israelis and Palestinians? Yes, there is discrimination in water allocation and Israeli citizens receive much more water than Palestinian residents of…

Arab-Bedouin and activists participate in a vigil to mark Land Day at the unrecognized village of Wadi el-Naam, March 30, 2012. Arab-Bedouin and activists participate in a vigil to mark Land Day at the unrecognized village of Wadi el-Naam, March 30, 2012. The placard in the foreground reads: "This is our land!"; the sign to the left says: "One voice - No to the Prawer Plan."

Prawer Plan Promotes Racial Discrimination against Bedouin

Human rights organizations Adalah and Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) formally submitted last week their reservations to the government’s legislative proposal to implement the Prawer Plan for Bedouin in the Unrecognized Villages in the Negev (the “Memorandum of Law to Regulate the Bedouin Settlement in the Negev – 2012″). The government established the…