by Hannah Cohen | Apr 22, 2021 | Human and Civil Rights
Israeli police have filed hundreds of defamation suits over the last year against people for Facebook posts criticizing police brutality. NIFC flagship project partner Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) has exposed a troubling practice of shutting down...
by Hannah Cohen | Apr 22, 2021 | Human and Civil Rights
NIFC is proud to announce the creation of the Boritz-Fromstein Fund for Human Rights, a $250,000 endowment started by long-time supporters Efrim Boritz and Naomi Fromstein that is dedicated to supporting Israeli human rights NGOs working to end Israel’s occupation....
by Hannah Cohen | Apr 22, 2021 | Human and Civil Rights
By Ben Murane, Executive Director So Many Issues One of our many issues regularly generates outsized attention – and rightly so. Our work towards ending the occupation and addressing Palestinian human rights is a tough issue, but one of our most important. First,...
by Hannah Cohen | Mar 8, 2021 | Gender Equality
Around the world, COVID-19 has caused major setbacks to gender equality. Earlier this winter Assistant Secretary-General for UN Women Anita Bhatia told the BBC that “everything we worked for, that has taken 25 years, could be lost in a year.” In Israel, like in most...
by Hannah Cohen | Mar 2, 2021 | Religious Freedom
On March 1st, 2021, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Israel must grant citizenship to Jews who converted to Judaism in Israel in non-Orthodox conversions. This historic victory follows decades of work by the Reform movement and Israel Religious Action Center, a...
by nifcanadm | Feb 4, 2021 | Issue Areas, News, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Social and Economic Justice
With high reproduction rates, Israel’s population grows by 2% each year, and is set to double by 2065, a rate of growth which outpaces other members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The National Economic Council, the Israel Forum...
