Posts Tagged: Israel Human Rights
Why Can’t Palestinians Talk with Jews About Coexistence Without Fearing for Their Lives?
Some local Palestinian leaders met with Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria on Wednesday to discuss issues they have in common, as well as coexistence. The...
Whatever Happened to the Palestinian ‘Diplomatic Tsunami’?
JNS.org - It was only eight years ago that supporters of Israel were trembling at the possibility that support for the Jewish state would soon...
For Israeli Arabs, Violence Starts at Home
JNS.org - The death of Khair al-Din Hamdan, who was killed by police fire in the village of Kafr Kana in November 2014, resulted in...
Palestinians Threaten Red Cross Employees in Order to Support Terrorist Murderer
The International Committee of the Red Cross recently issued this statement: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) laments the misplaced public pressure directed towards...
World Bank Ignores Palestinian Authority ‘Play-to-Slay’ Crisis of Its Own Making
JNS.org - In a press release accompanying a new World Bank report assessing the Palestinian Authority (PA) economy, Kanthan Shankar, the World Bank’s country director...
What the Golan Heights Can Teach Us About Peace for Israel
Israeli wine has taken the world by storm. And some of the very best comes from the Golan Heights. Similarly, the Gaza Strip during the pre-Islamic...
A Personal Look at the Yom Kippur War
As we approach the 46th anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, I have chosen to look at a book that illustrates the revolution that...
An NGO’s Win-Win Attack on Israel
Both ostensibly and legally, the Omar Shakir case coming before the Israeli Supreme Court on September 24 is not about Human Rights Watch (HRW) per...
The Plight of the LGBT Community in the Palestinian Authority and Muslim Countries
The Palestinian Authority (PA)’s violent treatment of the gay community under its rule offers a gloomy reminder of this community’s difficult situation in most Muslim...
More Human Rights Hypocrisy
What’s striking about the international community’s reaction to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent pledge to apply sovereignty to Jewish communities in the West Bank, and...
BBC Imagery Implies Israeli Airstrikes Target Children
Unidentified aircraft, widely believed to be Israeli, recently carried out overnight airstrikes on targets belonging to Iran-backed militias near Syria’s border with Iraq. The BBC‘s report...
Winds of Change Are Blowing in the Arab-Israeli Street
JNS.org - Joint Arab List leader Ayman Odeh’s announcement that he would be willing to join, or at least support, a center-left government sent shock...
Anti-LGBT Discrimination Is Now Official PA Policy
JNS.org - After Palestinian LGBT organization al-Qaws announced that it had held a gathering in the West Bank city of Nablus earlier this month to...
The Washington Post Bars the Truth About Israel
You can tell a lot about a news outlet by what it chooses to cover -- and even more by what it chooses to ignore....
