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Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT): Arbitrary detention of human rights lawyer Salah Hamouri
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), has received new information and requests your intervention in the following situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
New information:
The Observatory has been informed about the arrest and arbitrary detention of Mr. Salah Hammouri, a Franco-Palestinian human rights defender and lawyer in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
The US supports illegal annexations by Israel and Morocco. Why the hypocrisy?
America must be consistent. It cannot pick and choose when to follow international law
The Virology of Ideas — An Indispensable Pandemic
On March 9, 2022, Nobel laureate George Smith gave the inaugural Bisan Lecture. He spoke of the “ideosphere,” the teeming culture of ideas interacting and mutating much the way viruses do in the biosphere. He presented scientific discovery as a communal process, in which individuals contribute small mutations to the existing flux of ideas. This generous and democratic perspective was contrasted with the authoritarian restrictions faced by the Palestinian people under occupation. His lecture was followed by an interesting question and answer period. More than a hundred people followed the event on Zoom making this inaugural Bisan lecture a great success.
Israel to Decide for Palestinians Which Foreign Lecturers Can Teach at West Bank Universities
A set of procedures published by the Defense Ministry puts further restrictions on who can enter, work and stay in the West Bank
On Watching Ukraine Through Palestinian Eyes
The rightful outpouring of support for Ukraine teaches us that the West can condemn occupation when it wants to.
US accused of hypocrisy for supporting sanctions against Russia but not Israel
Critics compare Israeli military actions of Palestinian territories with Russian invasion of Ukraine but pro-Israel groups dismiss allegations as false parallels The US and some of its European allies are….
Israeli forces shoot, kill 15-year-old Palestinian boy near Jerusalem
Ramallah, March 7, 2022—Israeli forces shot and killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy with live ammunition in the central occupied West Bank yesterday evening. An Israeli soldier shot and killed 15-year-old….
A medical school in the service of colonialism
Ariel University’s new medicine faculty is part of a wider effort to normalize illegal settlements — and Israel’s national medical body is defending it.
Want to understand Putin’s invasion? Look at Israel’s occupation
The way Putin frames Russian state violence in Ukraine is similar to the rhetoric Israel has been using in its wars against Palestinians for decades.