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By Yael Marom |Published January 22, 2018 in +972 Blog.

At least three pilots for Israel’s flag carrier publish declarations publicly refusing to take part in the forced deportation of asylum seekers should they be asked to. The Israeli government is giving tens of thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers a stark choice: deportation or indefinite imprisonment.

The roots of France’s ascendant racism lie as deep as the origins of the French republic itself by Yasser Louati (published on July 11, 2017).

Marine Le Pen was never really the story so much as the symptom. Ever since global terrorism set the new norm in terms of a permanent threat of bombs in public spaces, mass shootings or crowd-ploughing trucks, the politics of identity has found a new source of legitimisation in France.

Published on 9 Mar 2017, on B’Tselem Website.

Since September 2000, Israel has maintained a “buffer zone” along the fence with Gaza, inside Gaza’s territory.

To that end, it has restricted the access of Palestinians to farmland that they own nearby.

Over the years, the military has occasionally changed the range of the area it considers off-limits to Palestinians, from 100 to 500 meters away from the fence.

In memory of Marah Diab [[Marah Diab was 10 years old when she died of kidney failure in a hospital in Gaza on 17 February 2016. Marah was one of the victims of the lack of medical facilities in Gaza due to the blockade by Israel. This text was written the same night her death was announced, as a reaction to it.]]

For a moment, just imagine yourself in Gaza. You live in a city on its knees, in an isolated and narrow strip of land with another 1.8 million fellow citizens. 360 square kilometers of prison, no more. Your children still bear the scars of several wars in their minds – some on their bodies – as well as the harrowing memory of the bombs – including phosphorus bombs – from the summer of 2014.

(JTA) — The father of one of the victims of Wednesday’s terror attack at a Tel Aviv shopping center criticized the Israeli government for not doing enough to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Pinkwatching Israel – a global movement for queer powered BDS – is launching its new campaign “Boycott Tel Aviv Pride.”

Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality | In 1997, a group of concerned Arab

December 10, 2015

French Jewish Union for Peace – UJFP

The trap set for Jews of France

In describing the Jewish community as having one homogenous voice fully in support of all Israeli policies, Israel has set a trap for the Jews of France. How was this accomplished and what can be done? The French Jewish Union for Peace explains.

Dans ce film Yotam Feldman, journaliste israélien, explique en quoi l’économie de son pays dépend en partie de ses ventes d’armes, préalablement testées sur les Palestiniens vivant à Gaza et en Cisjordanie.

The AIC welcomes Richard Wagman, co-counder of the Union Juive Francaise pour la Paix (UJFP), commenting on reports about rising anti-semitism in France. According to a study recently published by Tel Aviv University, anti-semitic acts rose by one third in 2012. Richard Wagman refutes the numbers published and highlights how the issue of racism should be taken on more generally.