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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

Amnesty International Israel

Screen capture of the Amnesty Israel webpage, January 8, 2025. (Amnesty Israel. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 8, 2025, 5:10 pm
Amnesty International suspends defiant Israel branch for ‘undermining’ its mission
Rights organization accuses local mission of ‘endemic anti-Palestinian racism’ and threatening organization’s ‘credibility, integrity’; freeze to remain in place for two years
By ToI Staff
Amnesty International Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand, September 8, 2015. (chameleonseye/istock)
December 5, 2024, 3:47 pm
‘Predetermined conclusions’: Amnesty Israel workers slam parent group’s ‘genocide’ charge
Local branch rejects report’s conclusion, but says Israeli actions ‘may amount to crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing’; US also rejects genocide conclusion
By Jeremy Sharon, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Executive director of Amnesty Israel Molly Malekar. (Gil Naveh)
February 21, 2022, 11:48 am
Amnesty’s Israel chief criticizes group’s report accusing Israel of apartheid
Molly Malekar says Amnesty International’s report is too sweeping an indictment that ignores human rights work, wrongly depicts Arab Israelis as helpless victims
By Tani Goldstein
Laith Abu Zeyad (Amir Ben-David)
December 14, 2019, 11:31 am
The thin line between ‘activist’ and ‘ticking time bomb’ for an Amnesty employee
Amnesty activist Laith Abu Zeyad woke up one day to find that he was a virtual prisoner in the West Bank due to a ruling by the Shin Bet, which claims he poses a ‘serious threat’
By Amir Ben-David
An Israeli woman uses her iPhone in front of the building housing the Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group, on August 28, 2016 in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)
May 13, 2019, 4:54 pm
Amnesty petitions court to revoke Israeli spyware firm’s export license
Move aims to halt NSO Group selling its wares overseas; Israeli Defense Ministry has put ‘human rights at risk’ by allowing sales of phone-tracking software to repressive states
By Shoshanna Solomon
Gilad Erdan speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv in 2018. (Roy Alima/Flash90)
January 30, 2019, 7:24 pm
Minister threatens to ban Amnesty over settlement tourism report
Gilad Erdan asks Strategic Affairs Ministry to look into barring rights group that called on Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, TripAdvisor to stop listing accommodations in settlements
By AFP and ToI Staff
Trucks are seen at the gate of the Kerem Shalom crossing, the main passage point for goods entering Gaza, in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, on July 17, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)
July 17, 2018, 8:41 pm
Rights groups urge halt to ‘collective punishment’ at Gaza goods crossing
12 organizations call on Israel to resume regular operations at Kerem Shalom, labeling the recent restrictions, imposed after rocket barrage, ‘dangerous, irresponsible’
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset in Jerusalem, on March 12, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 6, 2018, 9:22 pm
Amnesty calls on Netanyahu to apologize for post on Arab soccer fans
False claim that Sakhnin club disrupted tribute to 10 teens killed in flash flood was shared on PM’s Facebook page, removed a few days later with no comment
By ToI Staff
African migrants take part in a protest in Tel Aviv on June 10, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
November 29, 2017, 6:47 pm
Amnesty blasts migrant bill as Knesset approves it for vote
Human rights watchdog says new legislation will deprive children of healthcare, denounces ‘shameful cold-heartedness by descendants of refugees’
By ToI Staff
Graffiti sprayed on a roadblock in the West Bank city of Hebron reads 'Boycott Israel' (AFP Photo/Hazem Bader)
September 12, 2017, 5:26 pm
Israel said mulling penalties for Amnesty for violating Boycott Law
Finance minister reportedly seeking to pull tax breaks for human rights group over its call to boycott settlement goods
By Alexander Fulbright
The parents of Avraham Avera Mengistu protest outside the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem, September 11, 2016. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
July 31, 2017, 5:14 pm
Amnesty International calls on Hamas to free Israeli hostages
In first, human rights organization publicly criticizes terror group, and campaigns for release of Avraham Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed
By ToI Staff
An anti-Soros billboard with a swastika and Soros's name replaced by Viktor Orban's, seen in Budapest on July 17, 2017. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
July 17, 2017, 3:32 pm
Israeli, Hungarian branches of Amnesty rap Netanyahu and Orban
In joint statement, organizations warn of ‘shrinking space’ allotted to human rights groups in both countries
By Sue Surkes
Michael Lynk, the UN's special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, on October 28, 2016 (Courtesy)
October 28, 2016, 10:47 pm
UN rapporteur: I’ll probe treatment of human rights groups in Israel
Michael Lynk says Israel’s threatening response to criticism by B’Tselem is unacceptable; Israeli envoy says he represents a biased, discredited organization
By ToI Staff
Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich during a Knesset committee meeting, January 11, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 27, 2016, 10:11 pm
‘Illiterate’ Arabs grabbing Israeli university slots, MK claims
During stormy Knesset debate, Betzalel Smotrich demands other lawmakers ‘show me one Arab who passed’ college entrance exam
By ToI Staff
Jewish Home parliament member Bezalel Smotrich addresses the Israeli parliament on November 16, 2015. Photo by Miriam Alsterl/Flash90
October 25, 2016, 7:28 pm
Right-wing MKs call to remove Amnesty’s tax exemption status
Bezalel Smotrich says rights organization is ‘radically against the State of Israel and its leaders,’ should not receive benefits
By ToI Staff
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