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Illustrative: Likud MK Oren Hazan speaking during a Knesset plenary session, November 27, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
October 21, 2018, 2:11 pm
MK files complaint against colleague for inciting violence against activist
Zionist Union lawmaker Hilik Bar turns to police after Likud’s Oren Hazan posts ‘Wanted dead or alive’ poster of B’Tselem director Hagai El-Ad in wake of his UN speech
By TOI staff
B’Tselem Executive Director Hagai El-Ad speaks to the UN Security Council on October 18 (Hadashot TV screenshot)
October 18, 2018, 9:40 pm
Netanyahu denounces B’Tselem chief’s UN speech as ‘full of lies’
PM says Israeli human rights group is a ‘disgrace’ and will be remembered as a ‘temporary episode’ in country’s history
By TOI staff and Raphael Ahren
B’Tselem Executive Director Hagai El-Ad, left, next to Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour, at a session of the UN Security Council, October 18, 2018. (Courtesy UN WebTv)
October 18, 2018, 7:40 pm
At UN, B’Tselem chief blasts Israel; envoy calls him a ‘collaborator’
Head of dovish human rights group urges Security Council to act against Jewish state, which he compares to apartheid-era South Africa
By Raphael Ahren
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri attends a Finance Committee meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 27, 2018. (Flash90)
October 18, 2018, 2:02 pm
Ministers slam ‘shameful’ court decision to allow Lara Alqasem into Israel
Interior Minister vows to prevent similar cases in the future; Hebrew University welcomes US student after supporting her legal battle against deportation
By Michael Bachner
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the Christian Media Summit in Jerusalem, October 14, 2018 (Haim Tzach)
October 14, 2018, 10:24 pm
Netanyahu: We want ‘excellent relations’ with Indonesia
Addressing Christian journalists, PM vows to appoint special emissary to the Christian world, calls B’Tselem a ‘disgrace’ and backs Likud minister’s handling of the Alqasem case
By Raphael Ahren
Hagai El-Ad, executive director of B'Tselem, at a press conference in Tel Aviv, February 5, 2016. (AFP/Jack Guez)
October 14, 2018, 9:50 am
B’Tselem defends Security Council invite to expose ‘reality’ of West Bank
Rights group’s leader, accused by Israel’s UN envoy of collaborating with country’s enemies, says situation ‘not an internal Israeli matter’
By Michael Bachner and TOI staff
File: B'Tselem chief Hagai El-Ad speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv, February 2016 (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
October 13, 2018, 11:35 pm
Israeli envoy fumes at UN Security Council invite to B’Tselem
With rights group’s head Hagai El-Ad to address session next week, Israel’s ambassador says it is ‘cooperating’ with Israel’s enemies, vows to ‘expose its lies’
By TOI staff
Israeli security forces arrive to the West Bank Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar, Thursday, September 13, 2018. (Majdi Mohammed/AP)
September 13, 2018, 9:24 am
Israel destroys trailers set up in contentious Bedouin village
Older structures still standing in Khan al-Amar, whose slated demolition has prompted international censure
By Judah Ari Gross
Palestinians girls sit by newly made shed in the West Bank Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar, September 11, 2018 (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
September 11, 2018, 1:05 pm
Palestinians set up outpost near West Bank Bedouin village due to be razed
Activist says the 5 shipping containers send a message to Israel that ‘it’s our right to build on our land’; demolition of Khan al-Ahmar slated for Wednesday
By TOI staff and Agencies
A young boy in the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)
September 8, 2018, 8:15 pm
Israeli rights group asks EU to prevent razing of West Bank Bedouin village
B’Tselem says European Union foreign policy chief Mogherini must take action if the body is to ‘credibly back its own positions’
By TOI staff and Agencies
Illustrative: Residents of the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al Hiran walk to their homes after a protest against the town's demolition, on August 27, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
November 17, 2017, 8:17 pm
IDF issues evacuation order for Bedouin village near major settlement
Notice found lying on the ground Thursday gives residents of Jabal al-Baba eight days to evacuate sensitive E-1 area between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim
By Jacob Magid
B'Tselem director Hagai El-Ad speaks to the UN Security Council on October 14, 2016 (YouTube screenshot)
July 1, 2017, 2:59 am
B’Tselem chief: Israel sabotaging fight against anti-Semitism to retain West Bank
Hagai El-Ad tells UN forum: ‘Palestinians who oppose the occupation are terrorists, Israelis who do so are traitors, and those in the international community are of course anti-Semitic’
By TOI staff
Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon speaks next to a picture of slain Border Police officer Hadas Malka at the United Nations on June 29, 2017. (Courtesy)
July 1, 2017, 1:10 am
After UN hosts 2-day anti-Israel event, Israel’s envoy says it colludes with terror supporters
At ’50 years of occupation’ gathering, Nobel laureate Jody Williams says Israel trying to silence Palestinian narrative
By Cathryn J. Prince and TOI staff
US translator Jessica Cohen (L) and Israeli author David Grossman (R) pose for a photograph with his book A Horse Walks Into a Bar at the shortlist photocall for the Man Booker International Prize at St James' Church in London on June 13, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Daniel Leal-Olivas)
June 15, 2017, 11:05 am
Translator of Grossman’s winning novel to donate prize money to B’Tselem
In acceptance speech for Man Booker International Prize, Jessica Cohen commends Israeli human rights group for exposing ‘uncomfortable truths’
By Jacob Magid
IDF troops filmed by a Palestinian activist with the left-wing B'Tselem human rights organization in February 2017. (Screen capture: B'Tselem)
May 10, 2017, 8:16 pm
IDF accuses B’Tselem of ‘manufacturing’ conflicts
On Facebook, spokesman Moti Almoz defends army officer who appeared in a video published by the left-wing group
By Judah Ari Gross
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