Human Rights

PRESS RELEASE 25 October 2011 UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural RightsCommittee to ReviewIsrael on 16-17 November 2011 On 17 October 2011, Adalah submitted a new NGO report to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ("the Committee") to assist it in upcoming review of Israel, to take place in Geneva on 16-17 November 2011. The Committee monitors the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which Israel ratified in 1991. During the review session, the Committee will consider Israel's report of July 2010, as well as information provided to it by Adalah and other local and international NGOs. Adalah Attorney SawsanZaher will participate in the session during the review in Geneva. Adalah's report discusses t...

NOVANEWS Zio-Nazi Levi Yitzhak Rosenbaum, 60, an Orthodox (Haredi) Jew who resides in Brooklyn New York, has pleaded guilty to trafficking human organs. Rosenbaum was apprehended by the FBI two years ago. The term Haredi or Charedi is used to describe the most conservative forms of Orthodox Judaism. His confession came during his trial on Thursday in New Jersey where he admitted to three counts of brokering illegal kidney sales for customers in New Jersey, and received at least $120.000 in each sale, and also pleaded guilty to an account of conspiracy to broker another sale, the Ynet News added. The Ynet added that Rosenbaum confessed to brokering the illegal organ sales with people in IsraHell, who received only $10.000 each. The prosecutors stated that this guilty plea is the first ...

NOVANEWS Prisons, Wars, and the Lust for Profit by Larry Pinkney “Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo-obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.” –Angela Davis “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” –Howard Zinn In the 21st century the United States of America has rushed head long in to turning the incarceration of human beings into a thriving profit-driven and increasingly privatized business. This nation, in fact, has the the largest documented rate of imprisonment in the world. Since 1980, the prison population in the U.S. has more than quadrupled. This did not happen by mere osmosis. The same avaricious components that bring us perpetual war and concomitant corporate ...

NOVANEWS Rami Almeghari  Eid Misleh, seen with his mother in Gaza after his release, spent 19 years in Israel prisons, and was denied family visits for the last eleven “Eid was born on the night of Eid al-Fitr 47 years ago,” Eid Abdallah Misleh’s mother, Umm Eid, explained, referring to the feast marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, “So we named him Eid to be a good omen for our family. This day is also Eid for me, as my son has been released from the Israeli occupation’s jails.” Indeed, it was a celebration for Misleh, back with his mother, his wife Umm Ubaida, his daughters, Shaima, 23, Israa, 21, and his son Ubaida, 19, and many extended family and friends in Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Six days after his release, friends and family cont...

NOVANEWS Shahd Abusalama    Families of Palestinian political prisoners continue to demand their loved ones’ release at the Red Cross headquarters in Gaza City. This account is part of an ongoing series by Shahd Abusalama in Gaza City, who has been reporting on the regular sit-in protests and hunger strikes at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) headquarters by family members of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. The prisoners’ families make sure not to miss any day of the weekly protests, so the number of the people inside the Red Cross building is more than usual on Mondays. Therefore, one should expect to see lots of tears and hear lots of tragedies, especially after the names of the soon-to-be released prisoners were declared. As I ente...

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross Jerusalem court calls incident, in which Nazi missile killed 2 Gaza family members during 2006 hit operation, legitimate act of war, orders family to pay NIS25,000 in legal fees. ed note--besides the obvious--which is that IsraHell NEVER admits culpability to ANYTHING, from her murderous attack on the USS LIBERTY to the various false flag attacks she has waged on other nations, to her various assassinations of foreign leaders to the murder of civilians in Gaza, Lebanon, etc, the REAL significance of this story is found by reading between the lines. As far as IsraHell goes, ALL HOSTILE ACTS AGAINST GENTILES, whether it is war, economic violence, the destruction of their culture, YOU NAME IT--are considered "legitimate acts of war", as Judaism and Jewish ...

Dear All, Just one item today.  Actually, I was hoping to find news in the printed media about an item that was broadcast on tonight’s TV news here in Israel , but with no luck. The news item showed homeless people (some with infants) being brutally removed from vacant apartments that they had broken into.  The news item furnished statistics on why public housing was not being built, namely, much of the money that had been dedicated to it was being spent on other things, as, for instance, a road to Maale Adumim in the West Bank.  In addition to that there were additional purposes for which the money was being used, none having to do with public housing.  Perhaps tomorrow the Israeli newspapers will have something about the issue.     Meanwhile,  ‘Today in Palestine ’ has plentiful material...

 NOVANEWS Dear Friends I thank those individuals and organizations who have come forward on my behalf. There is an important principle involved in this case and we must fight the attempt to confuse criticism of Israel and defense of the Palestinian human rights with anti-semitism. Anti-semitism like Islamophobia and Homophobia and all other forms of discrimination must be condemned.   I have now received 41 letters of support from Jewish academics and activists. This includes a letter of support from  Independent Jewish Voices ( Canada ), a United Jewish Peoples Order and from Not In Our Name (NION). I have also received a support letter from 15 other prominent activists and authors who are not Jewish. This includes a letter from a Judge in Portugal .   As noted in my previous email I have...

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross in Uncategorized Nazi Gistapo “Imagine living in a cell with someone dying in front of your eyes,” freed man tells Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera Of 1,027 freed Palestinian prisoners, 40 were deported and forced to start their lives all over again [REUTERS] Hazem Asili, from the West Bank, was 25 years old when he was jailed by Israel in 1986. Abdelhakim Hnaini, also from the West Bank, was 27 years old when he was incarcerated in 1993. On October 11, a deal was brokered exchanging 1,027 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured in 2006 by Hamas. Asili and Hnaini are among the 15 of these prisoners who were deported to Qatar as part of the swap deal. In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, the two men talk about their tre...

NOVANEWS Youngsters in West Bank village were forced out of bed for Israeli military 'mapping' exercise. Balil Tamimi, whose children were woken past midnight to be photographed by Israeli soldiers Photograph: Harriet Sherwood/guardian.co.uk I went to Nabi Saleh earlier this week, a West Bank village which has been the scene of weekly protests over a nearby spring for almost two years. It's a small village of around 550 residents and the spring is located on land that the Palestinians say is privately owned. But settlers from Halamish, across the valley, began construction work in 2008 to turn the spring into a picnic site and leisure attraction for Jews only. The villagers' weekly demonstrations which followed have become an established part of the popular protest movement in the ...