This was a resolution on the status of Jerusalem, adopted during the tenth emergency special session of the General Assembly with 128 votes in favour, 9 votes against, 35 abstentions and 21 absences.Read More
The report reveals Israel’s exploitation of the West Bank for the treatment of Israeli waste – including hazardous waste. In doing so, Israel abuses its power as an occupying regime and exposes the Palestinian residents to environmental and health hazards – without Palestinian consent. “This reality is simply one more facet of the exploitative policy...Read More
The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia conducted a report examining the Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid, March 2017: "This report concludes that Israel has established an apartheid regime that dominates the Palestinian people as a whole."Read More
Over the past twenty years, Israel has taken measures to guarantee its impunity from its obligation under international law to compensate Palestinians harmed by its security forces. The report describes the development of this practice, and the approach in which it led to a major drop in the number of filed claims in recent years....Read More
Based on historical foundations, the book by Dr. Nadim Rouhana examines the approach in which Israel institutionalizes ethnic privileging among its nationally diverse citizens. Contributors to this book discuss the paradoxes of democratic claims in ethnic states, and the dynamics of social conflict in the absence of equality. This book advances a new understanding of...Read More
Salman Abu Sitta’s autobiography vividly narrates his family’s vanishing world that was defined by the Zionist invasion of Palestine and the subsequent mass expulsion of Palestinians. His story is one of 750,000, part of a generation scarred by a personal traumatic loss and sustained by a burning desire and right to return.Read More
Marc Lamont Hill & Mitchel Plitnick unmask the systems and structures that enable progressives to separate Palestine from all other rights-based struggles and treat it differently. They also highlight how US policy entrenches Israel's authoritarian rule over Palestinians, and observe how Israel perpetuates this oppression by misrepresenting Palestinians who speak of their oppression as anti-Semites...Read More
The report by B’t Selem illustrates the approach Israel is using to grab Palestinian rural space, by fragmenting it, dispossessing its residents of land and water, and then handing it over to settlers. A case study of three villages in the Nablus District – ‘Azmut, Deir al-Hatab and Salem – narrates the experience undergone by these communities since Israel established the Elon Moreh settlement nearby. The case study, illustrates the broader policy Israel isimplementing throughout the...Read More
Administrative detention has been commonly used by repressive regimes to circumvent the legal process and hinder access to one’s legal protective rights. Such detention has been used in Northern Ireland, South Africa (under apartheid), the United States, and Israel. The Israeli practice of administrative detention does not comply with international law, given that Israeli authorities detain...Read More