Word: tselem
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Jessica Montell is the executive director of B’Tselem, an Israeli information center for human rights in the Occupied Territories...
...pressure is not just coming from abroad, but also from within Israel. For years, Israeli peace and human rights organizations like B’Tselem, Peace Now, and Women in Black have brought the plight of the Palestinians to the attention of the Israeli public. And now, even the army is beginning to question apartheid rule. Two weeks ago, 52 officers risked imprisonment by issuing a statement refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories. At last count, 157 more reservists have joined them. Their message is simple: “We will not continue to fight beyond the Green Line...
...Center, including Kelly Askin, a legal consultant to the United Nations; Antonia Chayes, a specialist in conflict management in several international programs; Thomas Cushman, a sociology professor at Wellesley College and founder and editor of The Journal of Human Rights; Eitan Felner, the outgoing director of B’Tselem, the Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories; and Mario Gomez, a member of the law commission of Sri Lanka and a professor of public law, human rights and feminist legal studies at the University of Colombo...
...supporter of violence. I merely hope to help people understand the roots and causes of it. The international community is decrying the excessive use of force by Israeli forces, along with various international human rights organizations (including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Israeli human rights group B'tselem). Protests have been held all over the world, including here in America. The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution--with 14 out of 15 countries voting in favor and only America abstaining--calling on Israel to stop its excessive use of force. The U.N. General Assembly also passed a resolution...
Israeli military tactics--shooting at areas above the stomach, inflicting eye injuries and blocking hospitals in occupied East Jerusalem--have been condemned by respected international human rights groups including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Physicians for Human Rights and Israeli human rights groups such as B'tselem, Gush Shalom and Rabbis for Human Rights. These human rights groups have no political motive to attack Israel. They simply report the truth, and the truth is ugly when it comes to Israel's illegally sanctioned violation of human rights, which led to the United Nations' condemnation...