B’Tselem
In a Sept. 9 letter to the Interior Minister, Knesset Member Nissim Vaturi said Yuli Novak should lose her citizenship for “breach of trust.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid says new report calling Israel an “apartheid state” shows that Amnesty is “another radical organization that echoes propaganda with no serious examination. Instead of seeking facts, Amnesty quotes lies spread by terrorist organizations.”
A new report from the self-described human-rights group accused the Israeli government of such policy—the first time that the left-wing organization has used the heavily loaded term.
“We will not allow organizations that call Israel an ‘apartheid state’ to lecture to students who are about to enlist in the military,” says Yoav Gallant, applying Knesset legislation enacted in 2018.
With European funding earmarked for the purpose, Israeli NGOs such as B’Tselem have ceaselessly attacked Israel’s Supreme Court with the aim of rendering the Jewish state vulnerable to prosecution in the International Criminal Court.
“You are a student whose presence in class is very disturbing to the whole group, and your remarks are very unpleasant. I am sorry I had to read your unpleasant and not intelligent papers,” wrote senior professor Daphna Golan, co-founder of the far-left NGO B’Tselem.
Backlash follows France honoring anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian groups
“Why is there no reference to the human rights of Israelis, who suffer from unceasing terrorism? This prize pushes peace further off and is a mark of Cain on the forehead of the French Republic,” said French parliament member Meir Habib.
Hebron is an ancient city making its introduction to Jewish tradition in the Torah, which records Abraham’s purchase of the Tomb of Machpelah as a burial site for his wife, Sarah. Though control of the city exchanged hands over the millenia, Hebron featured an almost continuous Jewish presence until the present day.
“The circus of Bolivian hypocrisy continues,” said Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon. “Bolivia tramples women’s rights and invites the head of an anti-Israel group to speak at the U.N., all while talking about women’s rights and peace.”
The world body is hypocritical for condemning the evacuation of an illegal Bedouin village while supporting the eviction of Jewish settlers and settlements, declares Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon.
It will be B’Tselem director Hagai El-Ad’s first formal speech in front of the council, slated for Oct. 18.
Protesters and residents of Khan al-Ahmar in the Judean Desert try to block construction equipment from paving an access road to facilitate the demolition; rocks were thrown at officers.
