Israeli Communications Minister Schloma Karhi announced Friday that Israel’s government approved regulations that give them powers to suspend the broadcasting of foreign news organizations during states of emergency. These powers will allow the government to suspend outlets, such as Al Jazeera, from operating during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war if the government believes they threaten national [...]
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Israel communications minister proposes halt to Al Jazeera broadcasting from Israel
Israeli communications minister Shlomo Karhi said Sunday that he will bring a motion to Israel’s cabinet to shut down Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel. A tweet reposted by Minister Karhi details draft regulations outlining its aim of preventing harm by blocking media that promotes propaganda during the war. The proposal is being examined to see [...]
Sharon Basch is an Israeli American who spent the last two years living in Israel before starting her JD at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Tens of thousands of protestors took to the streets in Israel Saturday for anti-government, pro-democracy protests. Since January 7, after the announcement of the new official government, protestors [...]
Yael Iosilevich is a law student in the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University and JURIST’s Staff Correspondent in Israel. This morning, 27th December, Israel’s new coalition passed a bill that will allow parliament member Aryeh Deri, leader of the “Shas” faction in the Knesset, to be nominated as minister despite his recent [...]
Rights experts call on international community to condemn Israel annexation plan
Forty-seven UN human rights experts, also called Special Rapporteurs, released a statement on Tuesday, contending that the Israeli government’s plan to annex parts of the occupied Palestinian West Bank will violate international law and must be condemned by the international community. In the statement, the human rights experts explained the amount of Palestinian land that [...]
From Occupation to Subjugation: Israel’s Plan to Annex the West Bank
Israel has occupied territories belonging to Palestine since 1967, namely the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip. Over the last century to the present date, Israel continues to exert more control, stripping Palestine of any possibility of statehood largely by usurping land and burgeoning Israeli settlements in these areas. The Israeli government [...]
Dutch Court rejects civil case against former Israeli general Benny Gantz
A Dutch district court on Wednesday threw out a civil case against former Israeli Armed Forces chief Benny Gantz citing a lack of jurisdiction. The case was brought by Ismail Ziada, a Dutch Palestinian, who alleges that Gantz is responsible for an airstrike on Gaza in 2014 that killed six of his relatives. The case [...]
Canada court rules wine produced in Israeli settlements cannot be labeled 'Product of Israel'
A Canadian Federal Court ruled Monday that wines produced in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, cannot be marked with “Product of Israel” but must be clearly labeled as a product of an Israeli settlement. David Kattenburg brought a complaint against the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) Complaints and Appeals Office (CAO) for how they [...]
Israel rejects Palestinian Authority statehood despite UN resolution
The Israeli government on Sunday unanimously rejected the recent UN General Assembly resolution upgrading Palestine's UN status to non-member observer state. In response to the UN action Israel passed its own domestic resolution that rejects the...
Israel to reexamine East Jerusalem land seizures from Palestinians
Israeli officials have told the US that Israel will reexamine the cases of Palestinians in East Jerusalem whose land was seized by Israel due to the building of the security fence . The US had expressed...