New bill to outlaw groups that question Israel as 'Jewish and democratic'
On Sunday 7 November 2010, the Ministerial Committee for Legislation discussed a new private bill, entitled, ‘The Bill for Protecting the Values of the State of Israel (Legislation Amendments
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Israel’s government proceeds with anti-democratic legislation targeting Arab citizens and civil society
Israel’s Knesset is due to break for its summer recess at the end of July and reconvene in October.
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Cameron-backed charity accused of discriminating against non-Jews
The Jewish National Fund: Lands for Jews only?
Recent actions by a leading Jewish charity have raised questions about its links with Prime Minister David Cameron and other leading political figures.
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Restless Park: On the Latrun villages and Zochrot (pdf):
http://www.zochrot.org/images/latrun_booklet_englishsu…
Regional Council for the Unrecognised Villages of the Negev - map and legend:
http://www.rcuv.net/en/admin/my_documents/my_files/unr…
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Israel's parliamentary Education Committee considers limiting academic freedoms
The Education Committee of the Israeli Knesset is considering oversight mechanisms to prevent alleged ‘anti-Zionist or subversive’ activities in academic institutions.
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EU Parliament endorses Goldstone report, supports Israeli NGOs
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In a resolution adopted on 10 March, the European Parliament (EP) endorsed the recommendations of the UN Fact-Fin
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Tel Aviv municipality to combat Jewish girls dating Arabs
According to Israeli newspaper Maariv, the Tel Aviv municipality has approved a new counseling program to ‘assist’ Jewish girls who have relationships with Arab men or boys and to prevent such relationships developing in the first place.
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Ajami - Not just a Film
Jews-only development in mixed Israeli town faces Supreme Court challenge
Residents of Ajami, a mixed neighbourhood in Jaffa which is the subject of an Oscar-nominated film, are appealing to the Israeli Supreme Court to halt a housing development exclusively for religio
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Seeing Israel as it is, but not keeping a distance
Hagai El Ad on Israel’s image among Jews in the UK
I was delighted to be one of close to 2,000 participants in Limmud.
Hagai El-Ad is the Executive Director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), Israel’s largest human rights organization. An edited version of the piece was originally published as a comment in Hebrew on nrg, the Israeli news website of Maariv, on January 5 2010. An edited English version was published in the Huffington Post on February 10 2010.
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Home demolished in Arab neighbourhood in Jaffa, Israel
An apartment belonging to a Palestinian resident of Jaffa in Israel was destroyed by Tel Aviv municipal authorities on 17 January.
In 2001, Moussa Dakka, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, built a 75-metre housing unit on the roof of his parents’ house in the Pardess Dakka neighbourhood in Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv.
A demolition order was placed on the housing unit, but the Tel Aviv District Court ruled that it should not be enforced until the municipal planning of the neighbourhood was finalised.
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Background Paper: The controversial land policies of the Jewish National Fund
The Jewish National Fund (JNF) or Keren Kayemet LeYisrael was founded in 1901 in Basel by the World Zionist Organisation, with the aim of purchasing
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http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/jnf-owne…
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Modern+History/Cente…
[Hebrew] http://www.kkl.org.il/KKL/advanced_template.aspx?id=16943 .