by Hannah Cohen | Dec 27, 2023 | Human and Civil Rights
Photo credit: Noam Amir, Shatil Stock On December 13th, a group of Israeli organizations—many of them NIF grantees—published a major letter to President Biden urging him to insist that the Israeli military change its strategy to avoid further civilian deaths and the...
by Hannah Cohen | Nov 29, 2023 | Human and Civil Rights
Earlier this year, NIFC approved emergency funding for a project with Haqel – In Defense of Human Rights, a Jewish-Arab human rights group that works in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Throughout the year, settler violence against Palestinians in the West...
by Hannah Cohen | Nov 7, 2023 | Human and Civil Rights
With so many eyes on Gaza after Hamas’ horrific attack on Israeli communities and the subsequent military bombardment and ground invasion of the Strip, very few are focused on what is going on in the West Bank. Israeli settlers, backed by the government and military,...
by Hannah Cohen | Nov 7, 2023 | Human and Civil Rights
Photo Credit: Alex Farfuri On October 7, Israelis were shaken to their core by Hamas’ horrific terrorist attack on the communities along the southern border with Gaza. Many of the people killed and captured were peace activists. Many had helped ferry sick Gaza...
by Hannah Cohen | Nov 7, 2023 | Human and Civil Rights
Shortly after Hamas’s attack on October 7, Mickey Gitzin, NIF’s director in Israel, received a phone call. He was told that more than 150 families, evacuees from Israel’s southern towns, were in Eilat with no place to stay. Mickey did not hesitate. He immediately...
by Hannah Cohen | Oct 30, 2023 | Human and Civil Rights
FakeReporter is a watchdog organization that combats malicious activity and fake news online. During May 2021, NIFC project partner FakeReporter saw extremists and foreign powers using social media to sow fear and spark violence between Jewish and Arab citizens. Since...