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ACRI in Focus: Quarter 1, 2019
Your generous support during our "Up to Us" matching campaign last December helped ACRI take advantage of election season to keep the...
May 6, 20191 min read
Establish the First Arab School in Nazareth Illit
Thirty-two Arab parents and children from Upper Nazareth, along with the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and the Mossawa Center,...
Apr 3, 20192 min read
ACRI Appeals “McJesus” Decision by Haifa Court
Yesterday (26.3.2019) ACRI filed an appeal to the Supreme Court against the Haifa District Court's verdict regarding displaying the...
Mar 27, 20192 min read
Ruling on land in West Bank disregards international law
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel and Yesh Din filed an application to join an appeal against the Jerusalem District Court’s...
Mar 14, 20192 min read
Prosecuting Colonel for Manslaughter of Palestinian Youth
Today, March 10, 2019, ACR submitted a petition to the High Court of Justice on behalf of Sami and Fatma Ali Kusabeh, the parents of the...
Mar 10, 20193 min read
Discrimination Against Women in Budgets for Sports Teams
On February 18, 2019, ACRI submitted a request to the Be'er Sheva Administrative Court to join as an "amicus curiae” to a petition filed...
Mar 10, 20192 min read
Palestinian residents of Jerusalem: No entry to the District Court
ACRI appealed to the President of the Jerusalem District Court today (3.3.2019) to instruct the security guards that they are forbidden...
Mar 3, 20192 min read
Does the Prohibition of Discrimination Law apply to the sale of apartments?
ACRI requested to join Supreme Court proceedings as an "amicus curiae" on the matter of housing discrimination. This is a request for...
Feb 11, 20193 min read
State Refuses to Update Rent Assistance Allowance
In response to a petition submitted by ACRI approximately one year ago, the state recently announced to the Jerusalem District Court that...
Jan 14, 20192 min read
Amicus Curiae: Panhandling at the Western Wall
ACRI filed a request in the Jerusalem Magistrate Court to join proceedings as an amicus curiae in the criminal case against a man...
Dec 19, 20183 min read
Petition against the “Dismissal Law” Declined
On May 27th, 2018 at 8:30pm, the High Court of Justice dismissed one of two petitions against the “Dismissal Law.” The petitions were...
May 28, 20187 min read
The first Gay Pride Parade in Kfar Saba
Today (27.5.2018), together with ACRI and The Aguda- Israel’s LGBT Task Force, members and counselors of “Igy”, an LGBTQ youth group in...
May 27, 20183 min read
Shooting along Gaza Border
On 15 April 2018, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), together with fellow organizations Yesh Din, Gisha – Legal Center...
May 25, 20182 min read
Ayelet Shaked’s Spin on the “Infiltrators”
The Minister of Justice published a new law memorandum that would end government-funded legal aid to “infiltrators.” There is only one...
May 8, 20184 min read
The Override Clause is Fatal to Democracy
Democracy in its deepest sense is not majority rule: The majority does not need democracy in order to impose its opinion. Contrary to the...
Apr 22, 20183 min read
ACRI Petition on Freedom of Movement in Hebron
On 16.4.18 ACRI petitioned the High Court of Justice to rescind restrictions on Palestinian access to the stairway that leads to the...
Apr 16, 20181 min read
ACRI's Response to NGO Law
The NGO Law is intended to harm organizations that promote democracy and worldviews that differ from the views of the majority in the...
Jul 12, 20162 min read
Boycott Prohibition Law
Tabled by: MK Ze’ev Elkin (Likud) in July 2010 According to the original text of this bill, officially titled “Preventing Harm to the...
Jul 12, 20113 min read
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