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No More Hiding Behind Planters
Photo: © Tero Vesalainen | Dreamstime.com At the end of a major hearing at the Supreme Court this past July, the court's security guards feared violence from right-wing activists who had come to court. To avoid this, they helped representatives from ACRI quickly escape from the courtroom the moment the proceedings ended and tried to hide us in one of the corners of the building. And so there we found ourselves, after a principled and important legal hearing about the starva


The Death Penalty: Cruel, Unjust, and Racist
November 24, 2025 Subscribe to ACRI's newsletter © Ilkin Guliyev | Dreamstime.com Dear friend, Throughout Israel’s history, only one person has been sentenced to death: Adolf Eichmann. Eichmann was a high-ranking Nazi, and one of the major architects and facilitators of the mass deportation of Jews to ghettos, concentration camps, and extermination camps during the Holocaust. In reports to the United Nations and in other publications, Israel has justifiably taken pride in


Getting Our Hands Dirty
November 13, 2025 Subscribe to ACRI's newsletter Dear friend, There are times when you have to get your hands dirty. ACRI’s work usually takes us to the courtroom and the Knesset, but a week ago a group of us went to the West Bank to accompany and help Palestinian farmers harvest their olives. While much of the focus has been on Gaza, major escalations in violence have taken place in the West Bank since October 2023. Life in the West Bank, which was never particularly easy


Time to Get Moving
October 27, 2025 Subscribe to ACRI's newsletter Photo: © Martin Haas | Dreamstime.com Dear friend, We are thrilled to see a halt to the war and the return of the living hostages, and are hopeful that the ceasefire will continue to hold. We know that the process of rebuilding, justice, and accountability will take years. This war has cost so many lives, and ground down so much of the work we had done to preserve human rights. Now the process of rehabilitation for the people,


Time for Some Good News. Together, We Can Make History
September 18, 2025 Subscribe to ACRI's newsletter Donate to ACRI Dear friend, I am happy and proud to share that today, after a decade...


Not Winning Any Popularity Contests
September 17, 2025 Subscribe to ACRI's newsletter Donate to ACRI Dear friend, I would not recommend human rights work to anyone seeking...


We Are a Team. Stand With Us
9/16/2025 Subscribe to ACRI's newsletter Donate to ACRI After a night of explosions in Gaza, we awoke to another horrific morning in the...


The Supreme Court Rules: Prisoners Cannot Be Starved
September 11, 2025 Subscribe to ACRI's newsletter ...to ensure that the minimum standards that the state owes to every person held by it,...


Back to School?
September 9, 2025 Subscribe to ACRI's newsletter Dear friend, September is here, which means it is time for back-to-school. School in...


A Moral Reckoning
July 27, 2025 Subscribe to ACRI's newsletter Displaying photos of children killed in Gaza. Photo: J. Ron, Shatil-stok Dear friend, For...


What I Saw at the Supreme Court
July 24, 2025 Subscribe to ACRI's newsletter ACRI at the Supreme Court, July 17, 2025. Photo: Gili Meisler, ACRI Dear friend, ACRI's work...


Everyone Deserves Protection
6/17/2025 Subscribe to ACRI's newsletter Sign indicating the location of a public bomb shelter. Photo: © Arkadiy Yarmolenko |...


ACRI in the Press
June 9, 2025 Subscribe to ACRI's newsletter Dear friend, Usually, I update you directly about our activities and efforts, but this time I...


"Voluntary" Displacement in Gaza
5/27/2025 Subscribe to ACRI's newsletter Dear friend, Let us state the obvious: creating living conditions that do not allow for...


Resistance in Action Paving the Way for Hope
April 10, 2025 Subscribe to ACRI's newsletter Photo: Wix Dear friend, The holidays of spring tend to share themes of hope, renewal, and...
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