Has the Israeli human rights community abandoned human rights in favor of political expediency?

A commitment to human rights and civil liberties includes an inherent even if unwritten oath to uphold the principles of human dignity, regardless of any political or ethnic considerations. For example, in 1992, in the...

Canada’s role in the ‘right of return’

Jerusalem - A cardinal principle of the Arab information campaign against Israel since the inception of the Jewish state 53 years ago has focused on the plight of Palestinian Arabs who left their homes...

Official PLO news agency features study denying Jewish right to Western Wall

With thanks to imra@netvision.net.il for locating this source "Nor can any Muslim or Arab or Palestinian, and for whatever reason, give up a single stone or corn dust from the Wailing Wall or other holy places, because...

“J Street is involved in a purimshpiel, hiding its real anti-Israel face behind a...

Knesset Debates J Street's "Pro-Israel" Bona Fides My Statement to the Committee . The following is the English translation of Knesset testimony presented to the Knesset Committee on Immigration and Diaspora Affairs on Wednesday, March 23, 2011...

The Tayar Security Report

Born in Chicago Illinois served as councilor in Bnei Akiva Youth Organization Following graduation from High School entered year study/work program for young leadership from Bnei Akiva in Israel Following the year program- volunteered in IDF...

The Role of Iranian Security Forces in the Syrian Bloodshed

http://jcpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Segall-VP5891.pdf Amid the intensifying crisis in Syria, which in recent weeks has seen massacres of the civilian population in various parts of the country, Iranian military, propaganda, and economic assistance keeps flowing in, and its...

Treating trauma in Sderot

http://www.jpost.com/Metro/Features/Article.aspx?id=293944&prmusr=suh5oWUh083IHFYcJlVpp0xfCf0RO%2fm04TWdO9kS2F%2b0iyjTFKx%2faYZdzQ6R4XBa Despite the regular sounding of the Color Red siren earlier this month and the subsequent booms as Kassam rockets struck their town, the residents of Sderot seem, at least on the surface, to be...

January 3, 2013: Sovereignty Conference

http://www.arlenefromisrael.info/current-postings/ This past Tuesday, here in Jerusalem, the Women in Green -- joined now by some other groups -- sponsored their third annual conference: Application of Israeli Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. The turnout was incredible....

Al-Ahram: Unrepentant Terrorist, Jerusalem Construction, Jordan

The following are selections from articles which appeared in the Egyptian English weekly, "Al-Ahram" of Al-Ahram Weekly 28th May - 3rd June, 1998 Tourist Killers Unrepentant to the End by Shaden Shehab Two brothers, sentenced to...

Al-Ahram: Scott Ritter, Jews, Summer Market, Islam

The 'Mischief Maker' Bows Out by Special Correspondent Full Text It was clear that the Iraqi officials waiting on the tarmac last December were nervous. A 15-man UN weapons inspection team was about to land at the...