Tag Archives: Human Rights
Global issues require united action and a reinvigorated UN
Graham Peebles writes:
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Israel loses its best as chauvinism and religious extremism take over society
Lawrence Davidson argues that the growing number of doctrinaire chauvinists and religious extremists in Israel, and their domination of many walks of life, is pushing the country’s more enlightened figures – academics, peace activists and human rights campaigners – to emigrate. Read more [...]
The story of Israeli apartheid stalwart Meir Shamgar
Lawrence Davidson highlights the fact that recently-deceased Israeli jurist Meir Shamgar, who is regarded as a national hero in Israel, was actually a stalwart of apartheid and advocate of racial discrimination against the Palestinian people. Read more [...]
Call to musicians: Lyrics dedicated to the BDS movement
Nadia Ezzelarab-Gill writes:
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Trump and Netanyahu undermining our future
Lawrence Davidson examines how Israel and the Donald Trump’s United States are pioneering the fight against civil, minority and gender rights, and leading the assault on the free press, freedom of speech and international law. Read more [...]
Israel’s Bat Melech Battered Woman’s Shelter: A front for fraud, obscene profits and child kidnapping?
Marianne Azizi writes:
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Sharing is key to a new economic and democratic order
Graham Peebles writes:
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Israeli authorities attempt to steal the children of a lawyer who saved others’ lives
Marianne Azizi writes:
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Inequality, social dysfunction and misery
Graham Peebles examines the social ills emanating from the neoliberal economic model and argues that the rich and comfortable must give up greed so that the rest can have freedom from economic insecurity, destitution, exploitation and dependency. Read more [...]
The coward’s way: Israel’s war on the young
Stuart Littlewood describes the context under which the Israelis arrested a 14-year-old epileptic Palestinian girl for begging and, as punishment, dumped her in the Gaza Strip where she knew no-one and was cut off from her parents. Read more [...]
