by nifc-phil-mike | Oct 29, 2020 | News, Shared Society and Combatting Racism
Olive trees not only evoke images of the West Bank landscape, but they are also vital in providing a livelihood for Palestinian farmers. The olive branch is also a symbol of peace and coexistence but that does not prevent extremist Jewish settlers frequently damaging...
by nifc-phil-mike | Oct 29, 2020 | Human and Civil Rights, News
A report by six organizations funded by the NIF global network has found that the country’s asylum seekers have been left destitute by the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and has called on the government to intervene to prevent a humanitarian...
by nifc-phil-mike | Oct 15, 2020 | New Initiatives for Democracy, News
NIFC project partner Zazim – Community Action is organizing an online petition to protest the fact that hundreds of thousands of Israeli children cannot participate in remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic because they don’t have access to an internet-connected...
by nifc-phil-mike | Oct 15, 2020 | News, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Shared Society and Combatting Racism, Social and Economic Justice
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed large gaps and inequalities in healthcare throughout the world. Israel is no exception. N (we are only using an initial for privacy reasons), a Palestinian woman from the Galilee, was refused treatment at the dialysis centre covered...
by nifc-phil-mike | Oct 15, 2020 | Human and Civil Rights, News
NIFC flagship partner Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) called on Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to cancel a new emergency COVID-19 regulation which bans Israelis from demonstrating more than one kilometre from their homes. ACRI insisted that the...
by nifc-phil-mike | Sep 20, 2020 | Human and Civil Rights, News, Social and Economic Justice
Earlier this month, Omdim Beyachad (Standing Together), an organization funded by the NIF global network, made national headlines with a chilling and creative protest using 1,019 empty chairs in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square. Each chair had the name of an Israeli who died...
