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The Anat Kam Case: The Internet Shatters Israeli Censorship
Last week, Israel’s most infamous gag order was lifted to reveal that a journalist had stolen secret documents during her army service and supplied them to a fellow journalist who used the material for...
View ArticleWe Con Ourselves: Israeli Public Opinion following the Flotilla Raid
The aftermath of the Gaza flotilla fiasco in Israel has been telling and depressing at the same time. Israeli media and public opinion mostly followed the line touted by the government, accusing the...
View ArticleLack of Empathy Leads to Racism toward African Refugees in Israel
Israel is the the home of approximately 26,000 Africans who have entered Israel illegally through Egypt. Roughly 80% of these migrants are recognized as asylum seekers by the State, and currently...
View ArticleIsrael: "Rape by deception" turns out to be brutal rape of a vulnerable and...
This July, Israeli and world media enthusiastically covered a peculiar verdict issued by an Israeli court, sentencing a Palestinian man to 18 months in prison for impersonating a Jewish bachelor and...
View ArticleFact-checking the Israeli government's incitement against migrants and refugees
The public debate raging in Israel today about migrant workers and refugees is full of misleading statistics, slogans and bombastic headlines, which makes it hard to get to the core of the debate. Are...
View ArticleNew report debunks common myth about asylum seekers and crime in Israel
A new report (Hebrew pdf) by the Israeli parliament’s (Knesset) research center completely debunks the common myth spread by the media and the Israeli government that African asylum seekers increase...
View ArticleIsrael considers mass-deportations of African asylum seekers to Africa
The site of Israel’s leading newspaper Yediot Aharonot reported today that Prime Minister Netanyahu is considering offering African leaders millions of dollars in exchange for their acceptance of...
View ArticleRacism toward African asylum seekers on the rise in Israel
Racism toward African asylum seekers, fueled by politicians and Jewish religious leaders, is reaching new levels in Israel. In several cities Rabbis are urging Jews not to rent apartments to Africans,...
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Israelis view the street protests in Egypt with both fear and indifference
In Israel, media coverage of the Egyptian uprising has been superficial at best. Most Israelis know little about the Arab world and are indifferent to the issues that brought Egyptians to the streets;...
View ArticleObama's Opportunistic Policy in Tunisia and Egypt
The revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt caught the Obama administration off-guard, which is one of the reasons many analysts could claim that the Obama administration was flip-flopping and had no concrete...
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