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 12, 2024 | Human and Civil Rights, New Initiatives for Democracy
The winter session of the Knesset has barely begun, but the Netanyahu government is wasting no time jump-starting its program to weaken Israel’s democratic institutions in this new Knesset winter session. A key example of Netanyahu’s ongoing attempt to weaken the...
by Hannah Blazer | Dec 6, 2024 | Human and Civil Rights
By Daniel Sokatch, NIF International CEO Moshe Yaalon, who served as the IDF Chief of Staff during the second intifada, and as Prime Minister Netanyahu’s defense minister during the 2014 Gaza war, is no leftist, and certainly no friend of the Palestinians. But last...
by Hannah Blazer | Dec 6, 2024 | Human and Civil Rights
Photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Shatil Stock After more than a year, and with 101 Israelis still held captive, the war in Gaza continues. NIF grantees and NIFC project partners are among the few who are working to ensure that inhumane practices of the IDF are made public....
by Hannah Blazer | Dec 2, 2024 | Human and Civil Rights
On the same night that Israeli and international media zeroed in on the violent attacks in Amsterdam against Jewish Israeli soccer fans, extremist Jewish Israeli settlers were violently attacking Palestinians more than 2,500 miles away. NIF grantees and NIFC project...