Waleldin at a protest for refugee rights at Tel-Aviv University (Photo: Danielle Shitrit)

Hate crimes against refugees in Israel go unabated

Hate crimes against asylum-seekers rarely receive media coverage or public attention in Israel, but they continue unabated and most of the perpetrators are never brought to justice. The victims are afraid of filing complaints with the police or feel that there is no point in doing so, and policemen at times belittle the victims. In…

An occupation soldier stands guard over Israeli settlers after they invaded a playground in the Palestinian hamlet of Susya in the West Bank's South Hebron Hills, chasing off the village's children, Saturday, November 6, 2021.

Uptick in Attacks by Settlers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Nearly two dozen cars in the Ramallah-area Palestinian town of El-Bireh were vandalized overnight into Tuesday, November 9, in an anti-Palestinian hate crime perpetrated by Israeli settlers. Vehicles were daubed with the Hebrew phrase “price tag” — a slogan used by extremist settlers to describe attacks on Palestinians purportedly made in reprisal for some  damage incurred…