For years, we have heard in Western corporate media that Hamas uses civilians as human shields. So, what does the evidence show, and does Israel use Palestinian civilians as human shields?
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(MEMO) — The Israeli Knesset has approved the first reading of a bill that would ban organisations critical of the country’s military. The contentious bill, which passed by 35-23 votes yesterday, was proposed by Education Minister Naftali Bennett. The chairman of the right-wing Jewish Home party is seeking to criminalize organisations that are critical of Israel’s occupation […]
The Israeli Knesset has approved the first reading of a bill that would ban organizations critical of the country’s military. The contentious bill, which passed by 35-23 votes yesterday, was proposed by Education Minister Naftali Bennett. The chairman of the right-wing Jewish Home party is seeking to criminalize organizations that are critical of Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
A former Israeli soldier has said that it is the responsibility of Israeli citizens to call for an end to the occupation in order to put an end to the suffering of the Palestinians.
During an interview with BBC HARDtalk last week, Avner Gvaryahu, executive director of Breaking the Silence, spoke about the organization’s mission to collect testimonies from Israeli soldiers who witnessed the crimes of the military against the Palestinian people.
An Israeli border policeman detains a protester during a weekly demonstration against Israel’s apartheid wall in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah, Friday, Feb. 13, 2015.
German Foreign Minister, Sigmar Gabriel looks on during his meeting with Israel’s President, Reuven Rivlin at the President’s residence in Jerusalem, April 25, 2017. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday canceled a meeting with the visiting German foreign minister over the latter’s plans to sit down with Israeli rights groups, sparking a rare diplomatic feud with one of Israel’s closest and most important allies.
Israeli government funds have been secretly transferred to far-right organisations leading a smear campaign against groups opposed to the occupation, a series of investigations show.
The right wing groups have received tens of millions of dollars in state funding, either directly from the government or via Israeli local authorities representing the settlements in the West Bank.
In three known cases, publicly funded far-right organisations launched spying operations on human rights groups.
Once it fell to politicians and diplomats to solve international conflicts. Now, according to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, responsibility lies with social media.
Tzipi Hotovely, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, headed off to Silicon Valley to meet senior executives at Google and its subsidiary YouTube late last month. Her task was to persuade them that, for the sake of peace, they must censor the growing number of Palestinian videos posted on YouTube.
