by nifc-phil-mike | Aug 26, 2020 | News, Palestinian Citizens of Israel
Bereaved Arab Israeli mothers marched to the National Police Headquarters in Jerusalem earlier this month to protest growing violence in Arab Israeli society and to demand that the government and the Israeli Police form a plan of action to tackle the problem and...
by nifc-phil-mike | Aug 6, 2020 | Human and Civil Rights, News
While much of the world talks about the “new normal” as COVID-19 has disrupted old routines, one thing about life in the West Bank has not changed: Jewish settler violence against Palestinians. B’Tselem: The Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied...
by nifc-phil-mike | Jul 30, 2020 | New Initiatives for Democracy, News
By Ben Murane, Executive Director Around the world, the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic have highlighted the value of effective government. Here at home, most Canadians are looking over the border at the misfortune of our southern neighbour....
by nifc-phil-mike | Jul 24, 2020 | News, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Religious Freedom
The Aguda – Israel’s LGBT Task Force has set up a hotline in Arabic to serve Palestinian citizens of Israel. The hotline, which is receiving financial support from the New Israel Fund global network, will provide both emotional assistance and routine information on...
by nifc-phil-mike | Jul 22, 2020 | News, Social and Economic Justice
Israel’s 12,000 social workers, 90% of whom are women, are entering the 15th day of their strike (as of July 20) to demand fundamental changes to the impossible situation in which social workers find themselves. A social worker in Israel is in charge of an average of...
by nifc-phil-mike | Jul 15, 2020 | Human and Civil Rights, News, Shared Society and Combatting Racism
On the morning of May 30th, Jerusalem woke up to the announcement that a Palestinian man was shot to death by the border police. The public soon learned that the man was 32-year-old Eyad Hallaq, who was unarmed and on his way to the Elwyn center, where he spent his...
