Illustrative. Checkpoint between Bethlehem and Jerusalem. Photo: © Rrodrickbeiler | Dreamstime.com On November 19, 2025 ACRI petitioned the Supreme Court to oppose the policy of the police and Border Police to forbid Jordanian citizens who live in Israel legally under the framework of the family unification program from passing through the Shuafat Refugee Camp checkpoint to other parts of Jerusalem. The petition was submitted on behalf of a brother and sister, both Jordanian

Photo: Yossi Zamir, Shatil-stok (the individuals pictured are not connected to the events described in this post) On June 25, 2025, we approached the Inspector General of Police, the Legal Advisor to the Police, and the Attorney General, following two incidents in Jerusalem in which police carried out partial or full strip searches on two women who were detained at protests. The details of the incidents raise major concerns about the systematic abuse of female protesters aime

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

Water supply in a remote Palestinian community. Photo: Bimkom On March 19, 2025, ACRI, together with Bimkom-Planners for Planning Rights, and Jordan Valley activists, approached the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories and the General of the Central Command demanding that they act immediately to enable access to water for Palestinian agricultural communities in the northern Jordan Valley.     The communities of Farsiya, Ein al-Hilwa, Samra, Khalat Makhoul,

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

Photo: Danny Shem-Tov, Knesset Communications (CC BY-SA 4 via Wikimedia) On November 11, 2025, ACRI appealed to the Attorney General with a request not to advance a government resolution proposal being promoted by Minister for Social Equality May Golan that seeks to divert close to 3 billion shekels that were allocated for the welfare of Arab society to the Ministry of National Security for the purpose of addressing crime in Arab society.  The budgets that are being proposed

© 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