by Hannah Cohen | Feb 22, 2022 | Human and Civil Rights
More than 400 activists took part in a tree-planting event in the Palestinian village of Burin near Nablus in the West Bank earlier this month to demonstrate solidarity with local Palestinians and human rights activists. The event was organized by Rabbis for Human...
by Hannah Cohen | Feb 7, 2022 | Palestinian Citizens of Israel
By Esther Sivan, Director of Shatil, NIF’s action arm in Israel Back in 2010, the Jewish National Fund-Keren Kayemet L’Israel (JNF-KKL), planned to plant a forest on top of the Bedouin town of Al-Araqib in the Negev. The Bedouin opposed the plan, and protested....
by Hannah Cohen | Jan 27, 2022 | Human and Civil Rights
On January 20th, 2022, Israel’s High Court ruled that people being threatened to have their power cut by the Electricity Authority must have the option to show that they are suffering financial or health problems that justify their continued access to electric...
by Hannah Cohen | Jan 27, 2022 | Human and Civil Rights
A coalition of social change organizations, most of them from the NIF family, including NIF’s action arm, Shatil, have called on the Israeli government and the Jewish National Fund (JNF) to halt the “provocative and damaging” tree planting in the Negev. The letter...
by Hannah Cohen | Jan 27, 2022 | Human and Civil Rights
Early in the morning on January 19th, hundreds of police officers surrounded the Salhiya family home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem. They entered and arrested two dozen family members, expelled the rest, and proceeded to demolish the home. On a...
