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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 530

discrimination

Osama Abu Irshaid speaks at a press conference organized by the Council on American-Islamic Relations on August 12, 2024. (Screen capture/YouTube)
August 13, 2024, 6:45 am
US government sued over alleged discrimination against Palestinian Americans
Lawsuit relates to placement of one plaintiff on no-fly list and the seizure of an electronic device belonging to another complainant who organized anti-Israel protest
By Reuters
Israelis hold a gender-separated protest prayer event in Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Square, organized after the municipality rejected a request for gender-segregated prayers there during the upcoming Yom Kippur, in Tel Aviv, August 8, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 9, 2024, 8:00 am
Protest service held in Tel Aviv after city rejects gender-segregated public prayer
Hundreds join gender-separated Dizengoff Square event, organized after request for segregated public Yom Kippur service in the square was rejected by municipality as discriminatory
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
Druze protest outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, demanding equal rights, June 30, 2024 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 30, 2024, 2:53 pm
‘Not only equal in battle’: Druze, Circassians launch protests against discrimination
Minority communities announce week of action culminating in Jerusalem rally; leaders demand more resources and a five-year plan, as well as repeal of contentious planning law
By ToI Staff
Social media posts from Six Sailor Cider and Weathered Waves Bar in Salt Lake City, Utah, including one in which the business says it is "banning all Zionists forever from our establishments," posted March 4, 2024. (Screenshots via Instagram and Pinterest via JTA)
March 8, 2024, 4:09 am
Utah authorities probe a cidery that declared ‘No Zionists Allowed’
Department of alcoholic beverage services reviews options ‘for responding to discrimination’ at licensed establishments, but its unclear if ‘Zionists’ considered a protected class
By JTA and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A hand-drawn swastika is seen on the front of Union Station near the Capitol in Washington, January 28, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
November 21, 2023, 1:32 am
Antisemitic incidents surged globally since Oct. 7 but most aren’t reported. Here’s why
Up to 79% of antisemitic harassment is never divulged, according to experts who weigh in on ‘obstacles’ that deter Jewish victims – especially youth – from speaking out
By Matt Lebovic
Iranian boxer Sadaf Khadem (L) is coached by combat organizer Mahyar Monshipour (R), an Iranian-born former super bantamweight world champion, during a match in Royan, western France, on April 13, 2019. Khadem now resides in France (MEHDI FEDOUACH / AFP / File)
September 13, 2023, 10:38 pm
Dissidents call to ban Iran from Olympics for discriminating against women
Nobel Prize winner and prominent former athletes who defected send letter to International Olympic Committee
By AFP
Fekadu Abera speaks with Channel 12 from his hospital bed in Tel Aviv on September 3, 2023. (Channel 12 screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 5, 2023, 9:35 pm
Ethiopian Israeli says police at rally ignored his grave burns
Fekadu Abera, a former fighter in an elite IDF unit, recalls waiting for 20 minutes in agony as police told him to wait for an ambulance that never came
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative: View of the inside of a Dan bus in Tel Aviv on February 22, 2022. (Avshalom sassoni/Flash90)
September 1, 2023, 10:26 pm
In latest case of alleged harassment, woman says bus driver told her ‘You’re naked’
22-year-old says Dan driver repeated his comments twice when she boarded with a sleeveless shirt; company says it’s investigating complaint
By ToI Staff
Teenage girls on a bus from Ashdod to Safed who say they were asked by the driver to go to the back of the bus, cover up their summer outfits and put on blankets so as not to offend Haredi passengers on August 13, 2023. (Used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
August 21, 2023, 12:10 am
Bus companies face 3 lawsuits over series of discriminatory incidents against women
Egged, Electra-Afikim and Nateev Express are each being sued after drivers allegedly harassed or discriminated against female passengers
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Secular Israelis board a gender-segregated bus where women sit in the back of the bus, and men in the front. The secular women sat among ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in the front, as part of a protest against the exclusion of women in the public sphere, January 1, 2012. (Miriam Alster / Flash90)
August 17, 2023, 3:31 am
Reporter’s United flight discrimination claim intensifies gender segregation debate
Journalist’s assertion she was asked to move seats so Haredi men wouldn’t have to sit next to her, and shouted at for refusing, comes as issues of gender equality return to fore
By Andrew Lapin
Neria Kraus, Channel 13 US correspondent. (YouTube screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 15, 2023, 10:47 pm
Reporter says United crew yelled at her for refusing Haredi request to move seats
Channel 13 US correspondent Neria Kraus describes ‘humiliating incident’ on board flight to Tel Aviv from New York, but man claims son asked to switch seats to be next to friend
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, July 30, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)
August 14, 2023, 5:51 pm
After cases of discrimination against women on buses, PM calls to punish offenders
Netanyahu says Israel ‘a free country, in which nobody will set limits on who can use public transportation,’ following series of incidents involving drivers and Haredi passengers
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox men board the bus to the Lag B'omer festival in Meron, in Jerusalem, on May 8, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
August 13, 2023, 5:43 pm
Teen girls told to sit in back of bus, cover up because of Haredi passengers
Incident is one of several reports of bus drivers illegally discriminating against women in past week
By ToI Staff
Romi Inbar (courtesy)
August 9, 2023, 6:15 pm
‘Put a shirt on,’ Tel Aviv bus driver tells female passenger wearing tank top
Romi Inbar, 20, says she got off the bus after driver berated her for her clothing, adding it was a ‘difficult and horrible situation’
By ToI Staff
A student debt relief activists adjusts their sign after the US Supreme Court stuck down President Biden's student debt relief program on June 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images via AFP)
July 1, 2023, 2:53 am
US Supreme Court steers society sharply to the right
Conservative-majority court shows determination to scrap long-established progressive policies, with rulings against affirmative action, LGBTQ rights, abortion rights
By Paul Handley
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