Israeli Border Police in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem

Israel Approves Construction of New Settlement Building in Silwan

Hours after Israel’s Jerusalem municipality cancelled plans to vote on approving construction of hundreds of new Israeli settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem, Jerusalem’s city planning commission approved a plan to build a three-story building for Jewish settlers in the neighborhood of Batan al-Hawa, in the heart of the occupied Palestinian village of Silwan, just south of…

A Breaking the Silence event in Tel-Aviv

Bennett Promotes Bill to Ban Anti- Occupation Group from Schools

Far-right Education Minister Naphtali Bennett is ratcheting up his fight against the anti-occupation group Breaking the Silence. Bennett is now promoting a bill that will forbid inviting representatives of the group, which collects and publishes critical testimonies from soldiers about serving in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, following the ignoring by three high school principals of…