As the Israeli Knesset passes legislation which will permit the forced expulsion of nearly 60,000 African refugees who fled torture and violence in their homelands, various segments of Israeli society have mobilized to oppose this horrible phenomenon, which is a violation of international humanitarian law. Rabbis, including Sarah Silverman's sister, have … [Read more...]
Blacklisted: Why I am No Longer Welcome in Israel
One of the most sinister of all Israeli government ministries is Strategic Affairs, run by a Likudist with raging political ambitions, Gilad Erdan. The ministry operates like a quasi-intelligence outfit replete with scores of former Shin Bet and Mossad operatives playing shady, unspecified roles in rooting out 'anti-Israelism' wherever it may be found, and … [Read more...]
Father of Breaking the Silence’s Dean Issacharoff is Israel’s Ambassador to Germany
Over the past month, a strange controversy has been brewing in Israel. Breaking the Silence's press spokesperson, Dean Issacharoff, has publicly challenged the State prosecutor to charge him with abuse of a Palestinian prisoner while he served in the IDF in Hebron. The far-right government already has BtS and other domestic human rights NGOs in the … [Read more...]
Israeli Diplomat: Rabbis Who Demanded End to Burmese Arms Trafficking Guilty of ‘Blood Libel’
Israel and China are among the few countries remaining in the world which sell weapons to Burma’s military junta. Such arms are used in turn to facilitate the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslim minority. 600,000 Rohingya have been forced to flee their homeland due to military sweeps which torched scores of villages, and through rape, murder and … [Read more...]
