IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
Social media users sharing content from Sheikh Jarrah complain their accounts have been censored, limited or shut down.
on May 7, 2021
The Human Rights Watch report is a valuable, sober, and deliberately uninflammatory piece of scholarship—which won’t make a damn bit of difference.
on May 5, 2021
Israeli special forces use batons and mounted horses to disperse Palestinian and international activists protesting in solidarity with families facing eviction
on May 5, 2021
Palestinians continue solidarity protests against forced displacement of families from the occupied East Jerusalem.
on May 5, 2021
Israel ordered six Palestinian families to leave their homes in Sheikh Jarrah on May 2 to make way for Jewish settlers.
on May 3, 2021
Some may think Human Rights Watch is going too far, but actually it is behind the curve. Late last year, I convened a panel with veterans of the South African anti-apartheid struggle who certainly know what apartheid looks like, including the former South African ambassador to the United States. They were in no doubt that what is happening in the occupied territories is indeed apartheid. Other human rights organizations, including Israeli ones such as B’tselem, have also reached the same conclusion.
on April 29, 2021
Israel’s ever-changing limit on how far fishermen are allowed to sail out to fish has placed many boats – and lives – at risk.
on April 29, 2021
Human Rights Watch, one of the most well-regarded human rights organizations, has stated that Israel has crossed the line and is guilty of committing crimes against humanity and of being an apartheid regime.
on April 29, 2021
Israel has made it irrefutably clear it intends to make Jewish domination over Palestinians permanent, says HRW's Omar Shakir in interview following landmark report.
on April 27, 2021