Every year, workplaces in Israel distribute thousands of flowers to show their appreciation for their female employees on International Women’s Day. At the same time, these workplaces give women fewer opportunities to succeed compared to men.
On Friday March 5, between 10,000-20,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel marched in Umm al-Fahm against police abuse and neglect, as months of violence reached a boiling point.
A short video taken by a family as they picnicked in the West Bank this month may be the best field guide yet to Israel’s complex apartheid system of state-sponsored Jewish supremacy.
Palestinian activists in Haifa are demanding the release of Muhannad Abu Ghosh who was taken into custody on Monday and is being denied access to an attorney.
Israeli authorities are failing to provide essential information on the vaccine in Arabic, to establish vaccine centers in Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, and to provide sufficient vaccines in Bedouin clinics in the Negev. These failures are “not a coincidence”, rights groups say.
As Israel prepares for its fourth Knesset election in four years, Dr. Reem Khamis-Dakwar discusses how Zionist parties on the so-called “left” and right are attempting to attract Palestinian voters, who she says says have the status of pets within Israel’s political system, “domesticated in the service of Zionist parties in the Knesset.”
The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine perfectly illustrates Israel’s apartheid system. While Palestinians living under Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza will not receive vaccines from the Israeli government, the hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers living illegally in the West Bank are getting vaccinated every day.
Author Tamir Sorek responds to Hatim Kanaaneh’s review of his book, “The Optimist: A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad.”
Human rights are understood to include civil, constitutional, individual, and collective rights. Palestinian citizens are deprived of all of these rights in the State of Israel.
Remember Israel’s basic law stating that it is the “Nation State of the Jewish People”? Well a judge dismissed a discrimination suit filed on behalf of Palestinian children who can’t find Arabic-speaking classes in the town of Karmiel, saying the law prioritizes Jewish settlement of the land, Palestinians are a minority in the town, so the state doesn’t have to lift a finger to help these children.