by nifc-phil-mike | Jul 15, 2020 | Human and Civil Rights, News, Shared Society and Combatting Racism
On the morning of May 30th, Jerusalem woke up to the announcement that a Palestinian man was shot to death by the border police. The public soon learned that the man was 32-year-old Eyad Hallaq, who was unarmed and on his way to the Elwyn center, where he spent his...
by nifc-phil-mike | Jul 15, 2020 | News
Last Friday, several thousand protestors again rallied against annexation in Tel Aviv in a demonstration organized by several organizations including Omdim Beyachad (Standing Together), a Jewish-Arab grassroots movement which is funded by the NIF global network. The...
by nifc-phil-mike | Jul 15, 2020 | News
NIFC’s flagship project partner, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), has achieved a significant victory in the fight for police accountability. Following ACRI’s petition to the Jerusalem Court for Administrative Affairs demanding that the police...
by nifc-phil-mike | Jun 23, 2020 | News
By Joseph Steiner, NIFC Board Member Since the release of Trump’s so-called “Peace to Prosperity” plan, liberal/progressive Zionists have been sounding the alarm. But what have Zionists of the centre and right been saying? As it turns out, when it comes to...
by nifc-phil-mike | Jun 22, 2020 | News
By Daniel Sokatch, CEO of the New Israel Fund Earlier this month, Israel’s Supreme Court struck down a law known as the “Regularization Law.” This terrible law was passed by the Knesset in 2017. Despite its Kafkaequse and numbingly bureaucratic nomenclature, opponents...
