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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 570

Breaking the Silence

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates is seen onstage at a conference on June 7, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Carol Lee Rose/Getty Images/via JTA)
October 9, 2024, 8:40 pm
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book draws on Jim Crow-era US to weigh in on Israel-Palestine
Altercation with CBS host while promoting book sparks controversy at the network; the author rejects claims of bias, saying ‘no shortage’ of pro-Israel voices in US
By JTA, AP and ToI Staff
Head of the Otzma Yehudit party National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, June 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
August 29, 2023, 12:30 pm
Ben Gvir bars cops from ‘radical left’ Wexner Foundation leadership program
Alongside police, all National Security Ministry employees also prohibited from participating in vaunted fellowship that allows Israeli civil servants to study policy at Harvard
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative: Screenshot from a video of settlers firing at the West Bank village of Umm Safa on June 24, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 27, 2023, 11:46 pm
US pans settler violence, noting it has led Palestinians to flee their villages
State Department says administration ‘deeply troubled’ after footage emerges of armed settlers storming into Palestinian homes in West Bank accompanied by soldiers
By Jacob Magid
Armed settlers conduct a search of a Palestinian home in a Beduin village in the South Hebron Hills, July 25, 2023. (Screenshot/ Yesh Din)
July 26, 2023, 11:47 am
Settlers storm into Palestinian homes to ‘conduct searches,’ at least 1 of them armed
Police deny receiving complaint; IDF says it was aiding in hunt for stolen property near West Bank’s Hebron, declines to comment on presence of civilians, one bearing assault rifle
By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon
This picture taken on February 27, 2023, shows a view of torched cars and a building in the town of Huwara near Nablus in the West Bank. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)
June 16, 2023, 12:55 am
CNN probe: IDF soldiers did nothing to stop violent settler rampage in Huwara
Testimony from soldier provided by Breaking the Silence claims military ‘just let settlers continue to advance,’ failed to provide safe passage to emergency vehicles
By ToI Staff
Palestinian activist Issa Amro speaks to Israeli activists in the West Bank city of Hebron, Friday, Dec. 2, 2022 (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
December 3, 2022, 6:42 pm
IDF stops left-wing activists from touring Hebron as right holds rally against them
Protesters from Im Tirzu shout ‘shame’ at members of Breaking the Silence; confrontations come week after much-publicized confrontation between activists and soldiers
By Jack Mukand
Head of the Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir speaks to the press after a meeting with President Isaac Herzog at the President's residence in Jerusalem on November 10, 2022, as Herzog consulted political leaders on who to task with trying to form a new government. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 26, 2022, 9:49 pm
Likely police minister Ben Gvir suggests activists provoked Hebron troops’ assault
Otzma Yehudit chair says he’ll demand answers on suspension of two soldiers over violence against NGO activitists; IDF chief Kohavi says such incidents ‘tarnish’ army and country
By ToI Staff
A screenshot from a video of an IDF soldier cursing an activist from the left-wing Breaking the Silence group at a checkpoint in the West Bank City of Hebron, November 16, 2022. (Twitter screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 17, 2022, 1:18 am
IDF soldier suspended for cursing left-wing activist in Hebron: ‘You’re a traitor’
Infantryman unleashes string of invectives at Breaking the Silence member, calling him a ‘neo-Nazi’ and saying ‘I wish you get cancer all over your body’
By ToI Staff
A man photographs an Israeli military order on the closed door of Defense for Children-International in Palestine, after it was raided by Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Ramallah for alleged terror links, on August 18, 2022. (Abbas Momani/AFP)
August 22, 2022, 3:05 pm
Israeli rights groups condemn ‘baseless’ terror listing of Palestinian advocacy orgs
After raids on offices of several groups allegedly linked to PFLP, over 40 organizations release joint statement urging international pressure on Israel to reverse designations
By ToI Staff
Actresses in a trailer for the musical "Basic Instinct." (Screen capture/Facebook)
July 7, 2022, 1:28 pm
Nixed musical about soldiers’ testimony on West Bank rights violations sparks outcry
67 culture figures decry Beersheba theater for scrapping play that showcases stories gathered by left-wing group Breaking the Silence; culture minister resists calls to intervene
By ToI Staff
Weizmann Institute math and computer science professor Oded Goldreich (left) receives the Israel Prize at a ceremony at the Education Ministry in Jerusalem, on April 11, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 14, 2022, 3:48 am
Controversial Israel Prize winner to donate grant money to human rights NGOs
Computer science professor Oded Goldreich, opposed by right-wing lawmakers for his stance against West Bank university, says he will donate to Breaking the Silence, other groups
By ToI Staff
B'Tselem head Hagai El-Ad gives a webinar to Haifa students, January 18, 2020 (Screen grab/Walla)
January 18, 2021, 12:54 pm
Defying education minister’s ban, school goes ahead with rights group’s webinar
Yoav Gallant had pledged to keep ‘groups that act in contradiction to education system’s goals’ away from schools after B’Tselem said it will refer to Israel as ‘apartheid state’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Education Minister Yoav Gallant holds a press conference in Tel Aviv, August 6, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
January 17, 2021, 10:04 pm
Education minister bans major human rights groups from entering schools
Yoav Gallant says those who ‘call Israel false derogatory names’ not allowed in educational institutions, after B’Tselem announces it will refer to Israel as ‘apartheid state’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Reps. Rashida Tlaib, left, and Ilhan Omar at a rally with Democrats in the Capitol, March 13, 2019. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images, via JTA)
August 17, 2019, 2:39 am
What Omar, Tlaib were going to do on their thwarted trip to Jerusalem, West Bank
Banned lawmakers’ shared itinerary reportedly included Temple Mt. visit, meetings with US Embassy staff, far-left Israeli groups, a Palestinian official, UNRWA staff, refugees
By Ben Sales
A picture taken on May 13, 2019, shows an anti-occupation billboard, by Israeli NGO Breaking The Silence, erected on a street in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)
May 14, 2019, 3:14 am
Anti-occupation billboard greets Eurovision visitors to Israel
Sign by Breaking the Silence juxtaposes Tel Aviv beach with the security barrier and West Bank city of Hebron behind it
By Marcy Oster
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