Saturday, August 16th, 2008
Woman beat, threatened by ‘modesty squad’
Jerusalem woman who left ultra-Orthodox life after her divorce gagged, beaten by group of self-proclaimed ‘chastity guards’
Aviad Glickman
A 31-year-old Jerusalem woman was cruelly beaten and threatened with death by members of the ‘modesty squad’ who took it upon themselves to interrogate her about her relationships with men, an indictment filed [...]
Posted in Asides, Human Rights, Israel, Judaism, Religion, Zionism | 1 Comment »
Monday, June 16th, 2008
US adds a new scandal to its endless record of human rights abuse:
US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships
The United States is operating “floating prisons” to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of [...]
Posted in Asides, Human Rights | No Comments »
Friday, June 6th, 2008
By BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Each American claim to moral authority becomes a foul excretion in light of U.S. complicity in Israel’s barbaric and illegal treatment of the Palestinians. Washington deploys its superpower apparatus to smother dissent against its Middle East policy in Europe and elsewhere, leaving former president Jimmy Carter and Nobel [...]
Posted in Gaza, Israel, Palestine, USA, War Crimes, Zionism | No Comments »
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Israel will not allow UN human rights envoy to enter… because he said Israel practiced apartheid…
Israel to deny UN official entry for comparing Israel to Nazis
By The Associated Press
The Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that it will not allow the United Nations official appointed to investigate Israeli-Palestinian human rights to enter the country, after he stood [...]
Posted in Democracy, Israel | No Comments »
Monday, April 7th, 2008
This letter is a new example of Israel terrorism:
From: Fareed T [fareedt99 @yahoo.com]
Date: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Subject: child abduction by IOF
Dear Friends,
My cousin Asef Jameel Awwad is 15 years old boy kidnapped 2 days ago by the Occupation Army and released after more than 30 hours of abduction.
The story started [...]
Posted in Action, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Terrorism | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
The latest crime “in the name of social customs and religious rules.”
A young Saudi Arabian woman was murdered by her father for chatting on the social network site Facebook, it has emerged.
The unnamed woman from Riyadh was beaten and shot after she was discovered in the middle of an online conversation with a man, the [...]
Posted in (Mis) Use of Technology, Breaking News, Human Rights, Saudi Arabia | 14 Comments »
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Israel should declare an immediate moratorium on demolitions of Bedouin homes and create an independent commission to investigate pervasive land and housing discrimination against its Bedouin citizens in the Negev, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released yesterday
The 130-page report, “Off the Map: Land and Housing Rights Violations in Israel’s Unrecognized Bedouin [...]
Posted in Israel, Racism | 1 Comment »
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
This article discusses the findings in the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on Palestine in-depth. Because the report is from an agency of the 192 member states world body, it’s hoped that source highlights their importance and adds to their credibility.
by Stephen Lendman
John Dugard is The UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on Palestine [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Israel, Palestine | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
This is why we “LOVE” Israel…
Tax Payers: Remember, your money goes to equip these Israeli terrorist, so you are equally responsible for these war crimes! (As long as you don’t denounce the Israeli occupation by ANY MEANS. We understand that your money goes to support Israeli crimes without your approval, but silence is complicity! - [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Video, War Crimes, Zionism | 14 Comments »
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Another analysis about this story from Michael Ratner is President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York. (He has taught at Yale Law School, lectured at Columbia Law School, and was President of the National Lawyers Guild.)
Posted in Failures, Report | No Comments »