Photo: Wix Media In September 2020, the police scrapped the protocol that prohibited photographing protesters other than under exceptional circumstances. The police claimed there would be a new protocol, but despite repeated requests from the Association for Civil Rights, no new protocol has been put into place. Meanwhile, police officers have been photographing protesters whenever they like, without any justification. Officers have used their personal phones to photograph in

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

© Edward Lange | Dreamstime.com On November 10, 2025, a bill was brought for its first reading in the Knesset plenum: the Penal Law Amendment Bill (Death Penalty for Terrorists). The bill seeks to impose the death penalty on defendants convicted of murder motivated by nationalism.    This punishment would be designated for Palestinians only, and seeks to limit the ability of the court to use its discretion by mandating the death penalty in these cases. The bill also proposes

Photo: Wix About half of Israel's residents—Arabs, immigrants, etc.—belong to minority groups where Hebrew is not the dominant language. There are also thousands of people who do not speak Hebrew who live in Israel, including Palestinians, migrant workers, tourists, refugees and asylum seekers, etc. When those who do not speak Hebrew fluently, or at all, need to go to court, translation services is necessary in the administration of justice and ensuring their right to access

Every year, the Association for Civil Rights awards the Emil Grunzweig Human Rights Award  to a person or organization that has made a significant contribution to the advancement of human rights in Israel. These are the recipients of the 2025 award:   Jack Khoury. Photo: Rami Shllush, Haaretz Jack Khoury , journalist for Haaretz and news director of Radio A-Shams. For two decades, Khoury has consistently and persistently called for human rights and equality, and for mediation

Photo: © Irinayeryomina | Dreamstime.com On July 14, 2025, ACRI submitted an appeal to the Ministry of Health and the Jerusalem Municipality on behalf of the Forum for Health Equality in East Jerusalem with an urgent demand for thorough inspections to be carried out at health fund clinics in East Jerusalem, which are usually run by franchisees. This appeal is in response to data we collected through freedom of information requests and a statistical analysis of the data, which

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,

Fureidis. © Yoav Sinai | Dreamstime.com On the afternoon of October 24, 2025, the police placed a concrete barrier at the entrance to the village of Fureidis, home to approximately 15,000 people, completely blocking the eastern entrance to the village. According to a news report, the barrier was installed following complaints by the residents of nearby Zikhron Ya’akov to the Minister of National Security regarding gunfire, to which the Minister responded by instructing the P

A military vehicle and property damage in a community's residential compound in the Ramallah District. Photo: Muhannad Anati, ACRI Since the outbreak of the war in October 2023, expulsions and displacements of Palestinian communities (especially smaller and more vulnerable communities) in the West Bank and the Jordan Valley have increased. This is the result of harassment and violence by settlers, including: blocking access to grazing lands, harassment, threats, and violence.