Category: B'tselem

Reporters Without Borders condemns sniper who targets the media

January 27th, 2008 | Category: Human Rights, B'tselem

Reporters Without Borders has condemned a Palestinian sniper who took shots at the media as they tried to report on the murder of Carlos Andres Muscara Chavez, a 21 year old volunteer from Ecuador. We reported on B’tselems condemnation of Carlos’ murder previously and we are still waiting to see more of a response from […]

B’tselem condemn sniper murder of Carlos Chávez, who else will speak out?

January 18th, 2008 | Category: Human Rights, UN, B'tselem
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B’tselem (an Israeli human rights NGO) condemned the murder of Carlos Andrés Muscara Chávez, a 21 year old Kibbutz volunteer and visitor to Israel from Ecuador.  He was killed by a Palestinian sniper as he worked in a potato field. Condemnation for this senseless and deliberate murder should be heard from many human rights organisations. […]

B’Tselem Goes to Washington - Politics first

July 10th, 2007 | Category: B'tselem, New Israel Fund
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9 July 2007 — In an email to subscribers, Jessica Montell, Executive Director, announced that B’Tselem is establishing an office in Washington,  D.C..  But B’Tselem is also (and perhaps primarily) a political lobby, founded “to change Israeli policy in the Occupied Territories”, according to its mission statement, and to restore the 1949-1967 armistice lines, with […]

Palestinian-Israeli Peace NGO Forum

June 7th, 2007 | Category: NGOs, Government Funding, B'tselem, Physicians for Human Rights - Israel

Created in November 2005 and funded by the European Union, the Palestinian-Israeli Peace NGO Forum seeks to “influence decision making and public opinion, support the peace process and reconciliation efforts by mobilizing civil society and greater populations of the region.” Made up of over 100 organizations, members of the Forum include B’Tselem, Gisha, ICAHD, […]

Jimmy Carter’s book “Peace Not Apartheid”: Relies on politicized NGOs

June 5th, 2007 | Category: Separation Barrier, NGOs, B'tselem
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Jimmy Carter’s widely condemned 2006 book “Peace Not Apartheid” was found problematic for a number of reasons. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz provided one of the more salient critiques, outlining the numerous omissions and misrepresentations throughout the book, also pointing out that Carter virtually ignores ongoing Palestinian terrorism.
Further underscoring the lack of […]

Btselem and ACRI publish a report on Hebron: claims that Israel imposes ‘collective punishment’ on Palestinians

May 15th, 2007 | Category: Human Rights, B'tselem
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Btselem in conjunction with ACRI published a report, ‘Where Silence Reigns: Israel’s Separation Policy and Forced Eviction of Palestinians from the Center of Hebron’ , which claims that Israel ‘oppresses Palestinians living in the city’ while ‘the settlers are able to move around freely’. The report further claims that ‘the separation policy […]