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The Pilots are On Board
25 January 2018
A group of El Al pilots and over 130 airline crew members pledged their support for African asylum seekers as a result of Zazim‘s campaign.
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It’s Not ‘Us Versus Them’
25 January 2018
Residents of South Tel Aviv Stand in Solidarity with African Asylum Seekers.
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What’s Happening to Asylum Seekers in Israel?
19 January 2018
The situation of the 38,000 African asylum seekers in Israel has become increasingly tenuous due to new legislation and changes in governmental policy.
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Asylum Seekers in Jeopardy
11 January 2018
Recent moves by the Israeli government have stoked panic among asylum seekers.
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Detained Asylum Seekers Learn To Use Photography As a Protest Tool
14 September 2017
“I want to tell my story, who I am and how I got here, and then ask: Do you think I deserve these conditions?”
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High Court Rules African Asylum Seekers Cannot be Detained Indefinitely for Refusing Deportation
31 August 2017
Human rights organizations feared a policy of forced deportation to un-named third countries.
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Americans Join Global Naomi Chazan Activism Fellowship Program
17 August 2017
Thirteen fellows traveled in Israel and the occupied territories, learning about social justice issues in order to engage their home communities.
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Israel Grants Residency Status to 200 Asylum Seekers from Darfur
20 June 2017
Years of advocacy prompted the government to make this move, and more work is needed to address the larger refugee situation.
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OpEd: American Jews Are New Target of Israel’s Unprecedented Escalation Against Civil Society
13 February 2017In this op-ed, which was originally published in Haaretz, NIF VP of Finance, Operations and Administration Jennifer Gorovitz writes: “Given Netanyahu’s repression of dissent, perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised that Israel’s border control considered me a ‘national security risk’.”
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Neo-Authoritarianism is a Global Challenge
26 January 2017It would be a tragic irony, if in this time of rising xenophobia and racism, people like us decide to hunker down and only pay attention to what was happening in our own backyard.
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