ACRI in The Media

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

“With grave concern and with a clear understanding of the political landscape, we recognize that the only way to stop this forcible transfer in the West Bank is a clear, strong and direct intervention by the international community,” the statement, signed by groups including Rabbis for Human Rights, Amnesty International Israel and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, said.

In response to Ben Gvir’s comments that the judges were “domestic enemies,” the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) filed a request with Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, asking her to open an investigation into Ben Gvir on suspicion of incitement to racism and incitement to violence.

With the outbreak of the war on October 7, a number of Gazan laborers staying in Israel moved to the West Bank out of concern for their safety. Some left on their own and others were assisted by Israelis. Due to the Gazan's loss of legal status in Israel, any Israeli citizen helping them get to the West Bank is breaking the law.

The security cabinet pushed off a vote on controversial regulations proposed by Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi that would empower him to shut down foreign media outlets, although critics such as the ACRI have argued that the proposals would harm freedom of the press.