Our Arab Desk exposed a post uploaded last month by a teaching assistant in Hebrew University’s Faculty of Medicine that praised a call to murder Jews. Responding to a post calling “for Jews to die quickly so that there isn’t even one remaining,” the teaching assistant responded “Amen, please God.” After Hebrew U issued a…
We held a special online event this week together with Canadians for Israel’s Legal Rights and the ZOA celebrating the 101st anniversary of the historic San Remo Conference, which codified Israel’s rights into international law. “Remembering the San Remo Conference and Israel’s International Legitimacy” – Read the op-ed from our head of external relations, Eytan Meir, about the importance of…
After we uncovered evidence that radical Weizmann Institute professor Oded Goldreich signed a petition in March calling to boycott Israeli academic institutions in Judea & Samaria, the High Court ruled that the Education Minister can block Goldreich from receiving the prestigious Israel Prize. The story made such big headlines that the anti-Zionist newspaper Haaretz dedicated an editorial toward attacking…
This week we filed a petition to Israel’s High Court together with a group of bereaved families and other Zionist groups demanding that the government implement its ‘pay-for-slay’ law, the Israeli equivalent of the US Taylor Force Act. In July 2018, the Knesset passed the law requiring the government to deduct the amount of money that the…
The Education Ministry filed an official police complaint against a school in eastern Jerusalem for inciting violence. “Matan Peleg, CEO of the Zionist group Im Tirtzu that has been a leading advocate against anti-Zionism in schools, welcomed the move and called on the police to press forward with the investigation.” – Israel National News Read more: Israel…
In August 2020, Im Tirtzu’s Arab Desk filed a police complaint against Joint Arab List MK Sami Abou Shahadeh for participating in an event celebrating the release of a convicted terrorist, which constitutes a violation of Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Law. This week, we were notified that the investigation in not only ongoing, but that none other…
Last week, our Arab Desk published a report revealing that a Jordanian NGO together with the Palestinian Authority has been planting hundreds of thousands of trees in Area C of Judea & Samaria as a way to seize Israeli land (or in their words, to use “green resistance” to “liberate Palestine from the river to…
Last week, European Union officials had the chutzpah to hold a tour of the “East” Jerusalem neighborhood Givat HaMatos in order to criticize Israel for its plans to build an additional 1,257 homes in the neighborhood. But instead of allowing the EU officials to shamelessly tell us where we can or cannot build in our…
