Israeli settlers at the Hebron Jewish settlement’s Purim costume parade on the city’s segregated Shuhada Street. Honenu attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir (Left), is wearing signs indicating that he is dressed as a hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner. February 24, 2013. A settler on the right is wearing a T-shirt of Kach, which is a designated terrorist group both in Israel and the United States.

Organization Providing Legal Services to Rightist Terrorists Receives Tax-Deductible Donations

Honenu, an organization that provides legal services to extreme-right terrorists and violent settlers, and which gives financial support to their families, receives tax-deductible donations recognized by both Israel and US tax authorities. Calling itself an “Israeli Zionist legal aid organization,” Honenu is based in Kiryat Arba, a Jewish settlement of 7,500 encroaching on and regularly…

Palestinians incarcerated in an Israeli prison

Inside Israel’s Prisons: 5,625 “Security” Inmates

According to data provided by the Israel Prison Service (IPS), as of August 2015 there are 5,625 “security” inmates incarcerated in state prisons: 3,696 sentenced prisoners, 1,585 remand detainees, and 344 administrative detainees being held indefinitely without charges having been filed against them (such administrative orders are renewable every six months without need for justification by the authorities).…

Hadash MK Yousef Jabareen

Israeli Ministers Nix Bill to Improve Arab Schools

The Knesset’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation voted Sunday, July 5, to oppose a bill by the Joint List that calls for expanding the goals of the public education law to include goals specifically intended to improve the Arab school system. “The law that regulates public education in Israel defines the public education system exclusively in…

A Palestinian child within a kite in front of the destroyed Al-Nada towers in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, August 4, 2014. The towers had had 90 flats

MK Touma-Sliman on UN’s 2014 Gaza Conflict Report: Submit Allegations of War Crimes to ICC

The United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry into the 2014 Gaza conflict has gathered substantial information pointing to the possible commission of war crimes by both Israel and Palestinian armed groups. “The extent of the devastation and human suffering in Gaza was unprecedented and will impact generations to come,” Justice Mary McGowan Davis, chair of…