Tag: Human Rights
Court rejects Amnesty petition to revoke export license of Israeli spyware firm
The Tel Aviv District Court ruled on Monday against an Amnesty International petition to cancel the export license of the Israel-based technology company NSO Group, whose spyware, Pegasus, enables the remote surveillance of smartphones.
Amnesty...
WATCH: ‘‘We Shall Overcome’’ sung in Yiddish
אין ליכט פֿון די באַנײַטע פּראָטעסטן לטובֿת די רעכט פֿון אַפֿריקאַנער אַמעריקאַנער, איז כּדאַי ווידער זיך צוצוהערן צום רירנדיקן נוסח פֿונעם הימען פֿון דער אַמעריקאַנער בירגעררעכט־באַוועגונג „מיר וועלן איבערלעבן“, וואָס מיישקע אַלפּערט, פֿראַנק לאָנדאָן...
June 9, 2000: George Segal’s Public Art
Sculptor George Segal, whose 1979 piece, “Gay Liberation,” was the first public piece of art to commemorate the global struggle for equality, died on this date in 2000. “Gay Liberation” was commissioned by the...
Former Democrat national security officials call for tougher stance on Israel
Ahead of U.S. elections in November, the Democratic Party platform should include language critical of Israel, express sympathy with the Palestinians and call for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said more than...
What is the future of human rights in an era of amplified anti-Semitism?
Anti-Semitism has increased dramatically in the past decade, particularly in Europe and North America, with college campuses, work places, political parties, social media and civil society becoming fertile ground for violent extremism and hateful...
Nikki Haley targets Venezuela, even Canada, while criticizing the UN for corruption, hypocrisy
In a scathing speech last week about corruption in the United Nations, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley accused Canada of making a “deal with the devil” and called again for the removal...
In fifth Democratic debate, Sanders says Palestinians should be treated with ‘respect, dignity’
In the fifth Democratic presidential primary debate on Wednesday night in Atlanta, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) remarked that Palestinians should be treated with “respect and dignity.”
“It is no longer good enough for us simply to be...
Ilhan Omar is just one of many guilty of hypocrisy on Turkey
Last week’s overwhelming vote by the House of Representatives in favor of a resolution condemning the genocide of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923 represented a breakthrough. Hard as it may...
European court: Holocaust denial is not protected by human-rights law
Holocaust denial is not a form of freedom of expression protected under the European Human Rights Convention, a top European court ruled on Thursday in regards to a case from nearly a decade ago.
German right-wing extremist...
Supreme Court delays decision on deportation of Human Rights Watch director
Israel’s Supreme Court decided Tuesday to push off making a decision regarding the deportation of Human Rights Watch’s Israel/Palestine Director Omar Shakir until after Rosh Hashanah, extending a 14-month legal battle centering on whether...