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Fighting Coronavirus, Not Democracy
19 March 2020Physicians for Human Rights condemns the government’s unnecessary and undemocratic surveillance.
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Israel’s Supreme Court Upholds Surrogacy Rights for Same-Sex Couples
4 March 2020Following a petition by NIF grantee The Aguda – Israel’s LGBT Task Force, the Supreme Court rules that a discriminatory law denying gay men access to surrogacy must be revised.
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Protesting Trump’s Transfer Plan
12 February 2020Omdim Beyachad (Standing Together) mobilizes against the Trump plan, which proposes stripping 300,000 Arab Israelis of their citizenship.
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‘In First Person’: Testimonies from the West Bank
12 February 2020Yesh Din documents systemic violence against Palestinians by Jewish settlers.
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NIF Grantees Protest Deportation of Human Rights Defender
14 November 2019The Supreme Court approved the deportation of Human Rights Watch’s Omar Shakir. Israeli human rights organizations are speaking out.
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Progress in the Fight Against Police Brutality
14 November 2019The Israeli police must reopen an investigation of violence against an ultra-Orthodox photographer after an appeal by the Public Committee against Torture in Israel.
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Victory for Transgender Rights in Israeli Prisons
30 October 2019Court orders Israel Prison Service to allow transgender person to undergo treatment and move prisons.
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Responding to Settler Violence in the West Bank
30 October 2019NIF grantees are calling out the hypocrisy of only condemning settler violence when the target is Israeli soldiers.
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After Election Day: Civil Society Achievements Amid Uncertain Election Results
25 September 2019NIF grantees played an important role defending democracy during the last round of Israeli elections. Here’s how.
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Progressive Jewish Letter of Support for Omar Shakir
24 September 2019We write on behalf of five American Jewish organizations in support of Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine Director of Human Rights Watch. We call on the Israeli government to cease its efforts to deport Shakir and on the Israeli Supreme Court to reverse the lower court ruling that upheld the deportation.
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