IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
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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
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Yousef Munayyer is the Executive Director of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and regular contributor to the Daily Beast’s Open Zion blog.
on June 12, 2013
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Ramallah-based analyst, former legal advisor to Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Palestinian negotiators, and Policy Advisor to Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network.
on June 12, 2013
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Author of Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation and professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA.
on May 12, 2013
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The IMEU offers this timeline on the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) and the establishment of Israel's apartheid regime .
on May 8, 2013
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Human rights attorney and activist, Abraham L. Freedman Teaching Fellow at Temple University, Beasley School of Law.
on April 12, 2013
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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
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