IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
The IMEU offers the following update on Operation Protective Edge.
on July 20, 2014
Early on the morning of February 25, 1994, Baruch Goldstein, wearing his army uniform and carrying his army-issued assault rifle, walked past Israeli soldiers manning a checkpoint and into the Ibrahimi Mosque. It was the holy month of Ramadan for Muslims and there were 400 or 500 Palestinian men worshipping.
on February 27, 2014
The United Nations International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (1973) defines apartheid as "inhuman acts committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them."
on October 4, 2013
On July 22, Israeli media reported that Israel's Supreme Court ruled against a petition asking that the controversial Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu be barred from running for the post of Israel's chief Sephardic rabbi. Eliyahu, currently the chief rabbi of the city of Safed, has been accused of inciting racism and intolerance against Arabs and others. Eliyahu receives a salary from the Israeli government.
on July 23, 2013
The IMEU offers this timeline on the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) and the establishment of Israel's apartheid regime .
on May 8, 2013
The First Intifada was a large-scale popular uprising launched by Palestinians in 1987 against Israel's then 20-year-old military occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza.
on December 16, 2012
In recent weeks, numerous requests, including from the Israeli police, have been made to Israel's Attorney General to launch a criminal investigation into a group called Lehava, which is dedicated to preventing Jews, particularly Jewish women, from mixing with Palestinians and other non-Jews. The requests come in the wake of a series of violent assaults carried out against Palestinians by Israeli Jews fueled by rumors or the mistaken belief that Jewish women had been harassed by Palestinian men. So far, Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein has failed to take any action against Lehava, which receives indirect financial and political support from the government.
on September 10, 2012
"We must expel Arabs and take their places...and, if we have to use force-not to dispossess the Arabs of the Negev and Transjordan, but to guarantee our own right to settle in those places-then we have force at our disposal."
on May 9, 2007