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Human rights groups push for UK to ban weapon sales to Israel

The legal groups claim that Israel is not complying with international law amid the war against Hamas.

British-Palestinian doctor denied entry to Schengen Area, rights group call for investigation

The man, a British-Palestinian national and surgeon, was invited to speak at several events highlighting the war in Gaza, including an event at The Hague.

HRW: US weaponry allowed Israel to kill aid workers in Lebanon

HRW described the attack as unlawful, claiming it was on civilians and that Israel failed to take all necessary precautions.

HRW report exposes Iran's ‘Boot on my neck’ policy against Bahai's

“More than 40 years of systematic persecution of Iran’s Baha’is is a crime against humanity and should be judged as such,” a Baha’i community representative tells The Media Line.

By DEBBIE MOHNBLATT/THE MEDIA LINE
05/04/2024

EU deal with Egypt to stem migration is morally ambiguous

"The EU’s cash-for-migration-control approach strengthens authoritarian rulers while betraying human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers, and activists whose work involves great personal risk.”

Jose Miguel Vivanco, director of Human Rights Watch Americas, holds up a report

Human Rights Watch is an Israel-hating organization at its very core - opinion

HRW has targeted Israel with repeated and false accusations of “deliberately killing civilians,” committing war crimes, collective punishment, and disproportionate responses.

By GERALD M. STEINBERG
25/11/2023

Human Rights Watch says Israel used white phosphorus in Gaza, Lebanon

The substance is not banned as a chemical weapon, but it is prohibited by the Convention on the Prohibition of Use of Certain Conventional Weapons, to which Israel is not a signatory.

By REUTERS
13/10/2023

Jordan ends emergency laws that stifled public freedoms

This would mean a return to implementing many ordinary laws that were suspended as the government enacted many defense orders that touched every aspect of public life.

By REUTERS
07/05/2023

Israeli apartheid: A widespread lie difficult to fight - opinion

At its core, the apartheid lie depicts Jews who have returned to their ancestral homeland as “settler colonialists” and “foreign interlopers,” comparing them to South African whites during apartheid.

By ROBERT HORENSTEIN
28/04/2023
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