by Hannah Cohen | May 20, 2023 | Human and Civil Rights
Photo credit: Makbula Nassar Earlier this month Amnesty International reported that the Israeli military is using a facial recognition technology system known as Red Wolf to track Palestinians in the West Bank and automate harsh restrictions on their freedom of...
by Hannah Cohen | Apr 28, 2023 | Human and Civil Rights
Dozens of Israelis rallied outside of Israel Police Tel Aviv District headquarters this week to protest the police’s failure to charge perpetrators of homophobic hate crimes. The demonstration was organized by The Aguda – Israel’s LGBT Task Force, an organization...
by Hannah Cohen | Mar 31, 2023 | Human and Civil Rights, News
Shortly after Benjamin Netanyahu’s government took power, NIFC’s flagship partner the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) petitioned to overturn some of the new, expanded powers that Netanyahu had granted Itamar Ben Gvir in his role as National...
by Hannah Cohen | Mar 23, 2023 | Human and Civil Rights
Credit: Mati Milstein “Now in Huwara I held in my hand, the remains of stun grenades and gas cannisters that the IDF threw into a house that rioters had burned,” wrote NIF Associate Director Resources Development Shira Ben-Sasson Furstenberg on Wednesday, as...
by Hannah Cohen | Mar 23, 2023 | Human and Civil Rights
Following an investigation by NIFC project partner FakeReporter, Twitter has removed a network of fake accounts that were working to support the government’s legislative blitz to gut the judiciary. A malicious social...
by Hannah Cohen | Jan 27, 2023 | Human and Civil Rights
Human Rights Groups Petition High Court to Halt Ben-Gvir’s Police Reforms NIFC flagship partner the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) as well as the Public Committee Against...