Arik Ascherman

The author led Rabbis For Human Rights for 21 years. He recently founded Torat Tzedek-Torah of Justice.

 Two of the Israelis (masked) who allegedly assaulted Palestinian farmers harvesting their olives, along with Israeli human rights activists, last November.

We need days of judgment - opinion

A YOUNG WOMAN picks through the ruins of a demolished home in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev in 2017.

Justice for Umm Al Hiran would be true apology - opinion

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Hellenists wearing kippot


We must fight Palestinian terrorism without rewarding Jewish terrorism

If one factor has reined in Havat Gilad violence, it is the threat of state evacuation, as happened in 2002.

Price tag attack in Dora al-Kara

Who will live and who will die?

If we are to be sovereign for the foreseeable future, our responsibility toward Palestinians under our control increases.

THE BEDUIN encampment of Khan al-Ahmar is seen near Ma’aleh Adumim.

The hilltop youth – the inevitable result of 50 years of ‘occupation’

Whatever the future political arrangements with the Palestinians will be, we can’t continue to rule over another people.

TWO SETTLERS stand atop a ridge in the West Bank.

Are we really all Israelis?

Marking Land Day this year in Umm al-Hiran.

A new immigrant at Ben-Gurion airport kisses the tarmac as he makes aliya

Separate and unequal planning processes

"For 18 years I have worked to end the manipulation of building laws by army committees without Palestinian representation."

The tents of the illegal Palestinian village of Sussiya, with the Jewish settlement in the background. An EU logo is on a sign not far from the Palestinian flag

Feeling conflicted over Hebron

Do we invest the same energy struggling to be worthy of Abraham’s spiritual inheritance, and not only of a geographic parcel of land?

IDF soldier, religious Jews on sukkot, Hebron_311

Open letter to the Jewish National Fund – just say no!

Don’t forest over the community when there are cases in court in which the Beduin are trying to prove their ownership of the land.


Two Laws for Two Peoples

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