Tel Aviv University protest in Entin Square (off-campus), March 2025. Photo: Orna Naor, Shatil-Stock On January 12, 2026, we appealed to the President of Tel Aviv University following a new policy published by the university to regulate public activity on campus. The policy includes significant restrictions on freedom of expression, protest, and association on campus, that include requiring protests to take place off campus, police approval for every cultural event, prohibiti

Illustrative. Photo: Sebastian27 via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) On December 17, 2025 ACRI submitted a petition to the Supreme Court on behalf of fans of the soccer team Hapoel Tel Aviv against the Police Commissioner. The petition demands that the police immediately stop enforcing an illegal policy to prevent fans from entering the soccer stadium because of their clothing or controversial political content.  The petition details a series of incidents that occurred in recent wee

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

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

IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir. Photo: Yossi Zamir, Shatil-stok On September 7, 2025, the media reported that following anti-war...

Haifa Pride Parade, 2024. Photo: @Rndmst | Dreamstime.com On August 19, 2025, before the Pride parade was scheduled to take place in...

Photo: © Steve Estvanik | Dreamstime.com After hundreds of artists signed a petition calling for an immediate end to the war in Gaza and...

Photos of people and children killed in Gaza during a demonstration. Photo: "Standing Together" On May 29, 2025 ACRI sent an urgent...

Tel Aviv University, © Spiroview Inc. | Dreamstime.com On May 21, 2025, we called on the rector of Tel Aviv University to retract his...

© Lucian Milasan | Dreamstime.com On April 27, 2025, ACRI submitted a petition to the Supreme Court demanding a ruling stating that the...

Watch No Other Land (Hebrew subtitles) After the group “Standing Together” obtained approval from the library at the University of Haifa...

Photo: Tal Dahan, ACRI Dr. Sebastian Ben Daniel was suspended from his position at Ben Gurion University due to social media posts he...

Watch No Other Land (Hebrew subtitles) Following No Other Land’s Oscar win   at the Academy Awards for Best Documentary, the Minister of...

Educational Bookshop after the Police Raid. Photo: Nir Hasson The Educational Bookshop is a not just a bookstore in East Jerusalem. It is...

On January 14, 2025, the Association for Civil Rights submitted a request to join an appeal as an "amicus curiae" (“friend of the court”)...

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, together with the Public Committee Against Torture and the Movement for Quality Government,...

The State Attorney's Guideline 14.12 establishes that police must obtain approval from the prosecutor’s office before opening an...

A Review of Human Rights Violations in Israel and the West Bank    Over a Year of War     Since the horrific massacre carried out by...

In October 2023, the police updated their procedures for operating the MCTZ (spray machine) to allow the addition of pepper spray to the...

On May 22, 2024, we sent legal correspondence (Hebrew) to the Attorney General and the Attorney General of the Police requesting that...