ACRI in The Media

"Gil Gan-Mor, a lawyer with the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, says the proposal should greatly worry all Israelis. "It seems that the amendment is primarily intended to grant the Shin Bet more and more powers and sophisticated surveillance tools, and it does not adequately protect the rights of citizens nor include sufficient monitoring mechanisms or transparency," he says."

Unrecognized Bedouin village gets its first-ever rocket shelter, as war rages

"While a protest calling for a ceasefire was approved only after the Association for Civil Rights in Israel petitioned the Supreme Court, protests on other matters led by Jewish Israelis since the start of the war have generally been granted police approval. In other words, the only protests the police claim to not have the capacity for are those that oppose the war. "

Noa Sattath, executive director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, says the government's drive for more guns has skirted the definition of what's legal. "Laws were not passed through the regular procedure of legislation but are fast-tracked as emergency regulations," she says. "So there's less oversight on them."

Why Does Israel Have So Many Palestinians in Detention and Available to Swap?

First Tel Aviv anti-war demonstration reveals the limits on protest in today’s Israel

"The Association for Civil Rights in Israel has sent a legal correspondence to the IDF’s Central Command urging the army to remove the curfew it has imposed exclusively on Palestinians — and not on settlers — in the West Bank city of Hebron since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war."

"A petition by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel argued that the rights of freedom of expression and protest must be upheld during the current war."

"ACRI called the detention of the former lawmakers “a new and dangerous expression of the government’s unrestrained scathing attack on Arab society in general and its leadership in particular.” The police have no authority to ban the Nazareth protest, which did not require a permit, the group stated, “and certainly not to detain the leadership of the Arab community for questioning or arrest.”"

The government is advancing regulations to close the network's Israel branch, a move journalists and free press defenders decry as baseless and dangerous.

Bill to ban ‘systematic’ viewing of terror content readied for final Knesset passage. ACRI had strongly criticized the previous version of the legislation as “anti-democratic,” and said it would create a “thought police” that could punish people “not based on their actions but rather on what is going on inside someone’s head.”

Unable to return to Gaza, hundreds of laborers detained by IDF in the West Bank