“More than 1.4 million of our people are treated as third-class citizens in apartheid Israel in a way reminiscent of the racism of the White Supremacists of the apartheid regime of South Africa. The new American administration is not supposed to tolerate apartheid, a crime against humanity under international law. In a nutshell, what we...Read More

“[T]he country’s largest human rights group may have rescued the possibility of open and honest discussion from those who seek to stifle free speech under the cloak of combating anti-Semitism. Such is the goal of those advocating the adoption of the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. B’Tselem’s groundbreaking paper and an equally...Read More

“B’Tselem makes a strong case [on apartheid], one that will be a difficult for the Biden administration to ignore. The organization’s reputation, and its identity as an Israeli rights group, will make it more difficult for American leaders to dismiss the group’s characterization. Nonetheless, it is likely that Biden’s first inclination will be to ignore...Read More

“Persecution of organizations and persons, by depriving them of fundamental rights and freedoms, because they oppose apartheid” is one of the key ‘inhuman acts’ stated under the convention of Apartheid. Education Minister Yoav Gallant has ordered his ministry’s director general to bar schools from hosting B’Tselem after it launched a report affirming that Israel maintains...Read More

“[Israel] is on track to vaccinate 25 percent of its population by the end of January and every Israeli by the end of March. This includes about 600,000 settlers, who, according to international law, are illegally living in the West Bank, but who hold Israeli passports. They will receive the vaccine in the coming days while about three million...Read More

“[A]round a third of the 14 million people living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea are not included in this vaccination campaign. Israel has distributed vaccines to Jewish settlers in the West Bank, but not to Palestinians there or in the cramped, impoverished Gaza Strip.” A clear and transparent illustration of how Israeli lives...Read More

“One cannot live a single day in Israel-Palestine without the sense that this place is constantly being engineered to privilege one people, and one people only: the Jewish people. Yet half of those living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea are Palestinian. The chasm between these lived realities fills the air, bleeds, is...Read More

“According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ‘Everyone has the right to freedom of expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.’ The lawyers cited this in their letter and argued that this right is embodied...Read More

“Israel has entrenched its settlement enterprise occupation while flouting international law and dodging its moral, legal, and humanitarian obligations as an occupying power. Providing the COVID-19 vaccine to Palestinians is one of these obligations. Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza direly need the COVID-19 vaccine. The infection and death rates are climbing dangerously.  [But] so...Read More

“‘Avrum,’ as he’s widely known, is out to discard one title: his designation as a Jew according to the population registry of the Interior Ministry. In an affidavit he will submit to the Jerusalem District Court, Burg writes that he no longer considers himself as belonging to the Jewish nationality. He adds that his conscience does...Read More