Journalist and documentary filmmaker Shlomo Slutzky, who exposed Gauto’s history on television, during a session of Israel’s Supreme Court in 2016

MK Khenin: Israel Must Extradite Argentine War Criminal Gauto

Human rights organizations, members of the Israeli parliament and representatives of the Argentinean-Jewish community have joined forces to demand that Israel extradite alleged Argentine war criminal Teodoro Anibal Gauto. According to Interpol’s website, Gauto is wanted for crimes against humanity, including murder, torture and abductions during Argentina’s military dictatorship from 1976 until 1983. Israel’s Interior…

MK Khenin: Gov’t’s Deportation Plan Intends to Place People Who Seek Asylum Here in Mortal Peril

The Rwandan government denied on Tuesday, January 23, the existence of a secret deal to receive African asylum-seekers forcibly deported from Israel. The far-right Israeli government informed Israel’s Supreme Court about the agreement with Rwanda in November, after the approval by the Knesset of an amendment to the Prevention of Infiltration Law, which stipulated that…

Sign posted outside the offices of the Himanuta subsidiary of the Jewish National Fund

MK Khenin: “Nationalize the JNF!”

The Jewish National Fund (JNF), known in Hebrew as Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, is extremely wealthy. It owns 13% of all the land in Israel and brings in some $3 billion a year, most of it from land sales. The Israeli government traditionally feels entitled to the JNF’s money, which according to its mission statement is…