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| Opening Remarks |
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Politics without Law:
The attack on human rights organizations | |
This
month, against the
backdrop of the Goldstone Mission’s Report, a virulent offensive was
launched against the New Israeli Fund (NIF) and human rights
organizations based in Israel. Government ministers, Members of
Knesset, senior journalists and NGOs that support the Occupation all
partook in the attack. The situation deteriorated to the point that the
Knesset discussed the possible establishment of a parliamentary
committee to investigate the activities of human rights organizations.
The Knesset is also currently debating a bill that would severely
curtail the foreign funding of NGOs. What, then, is behind this attack?
True, it began in the heated context of the Goldstone Report; however,
the leading human rights organizations in Israel have been submitting
reports to UN committees on human rights violations by Israel for many
years, including previous calls for accountability for suspected war
crimes. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, together with the
Ministry of Justice, regularly submits detailed responses to these
reports and gives oral presentations before the UN committees. The
attack can therefore not be explained away simply as a hysterical
response to the Goldstone Report. More ...
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Mon.
01.03.10, 11:30 am (HCJ 7562/09) Supreme Court
(SCt)
hearing on petition and motion for contempt of court where the state
has failed
to fulfill its commitment to open the first high school in an Arab
Bedouin
unrecognized village in the Naqab
Tues.
02.03.10, 9:00 am (HCJ 830/07) SCt
hearing
before 11 justices on petition challenging the
constitutionality of amendments to the Citizenship Law banning family
unification
Mon.
08.03.10, 9:00 am (HCJ 1482/08) SCt
hearing
on the inhuman and degrading conditions of
transport of prisoners in "posta vehicles"
Wed.
10.03.10, 9:00 am (CA 7831/08) SCt
hearing
on appeal filed by Moshav Nevatim in the Naqab
against a Jewish Israeli family who wanted to rent their home to an
Arab family
Wed. 10.03.10, 10:00
am (Crim File 12318 - 12/09) First
hearing
before the Tel Aviv Magistrates' Court on
criminal indictment for anti-War, anti-Wall political offenses filed against
MK
Mohammed Barakeh
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