by Hannah Blazer | Dec 26, 2024 | News
With great pride, we congratulate our board member Prof. Sylvia Bashevkin on receiving two national-level awards in recognition of her groundbreaking scholarship in gender and politics: Sylvia was named an Officer of the Order of Canada, one of the country’s...
by Hannah Blazer | Dec 24, 2024 | NIF
By Mickey Gitzin, NIF Director in Israel The following was first published in Haaretz in Hebrew. It has been translated, edited and abridged for NIF. You can find the full original Hebrew here. ~ What is a state? A state is an idea, a system of institutions, and a...
by Hannah Blazer | Dec 24, 2024 | Human and Civil Rights
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons With the ongoing, devastating war in Gaza, many in the diaspora and Israel have not been focused on the dramatic rise in settler violence. According to NIFC project partner Yesh Din, 2023 was the worst year for settler violence in...
by Hannah Blazer | Dec 24, 2024 | Human and Civil Rights
Photo Credit: Mati Milstein for NIF As the humanitarian situation in Gaza deteriorated last year, NIF’s global network took the unusual step of raising funds to help feed innocent people in Gaza. We identified two international aid organizations who were best...
by Hannah Blazer | Dec 24, 2024 | Palestinian Citizens of Israel
Photo Credit: Yossi Zamir, Shatil Stock At a time when the media is preoccupied by wars, regime changes, regional power plays, and Trump’s inauguration day, very few are focused on what is happening to the Negev Bedouin: mass home demolitions and displacement of...
