Human Rights Violations Archives

Major ad firm Outfront Media censors “free Ahed Tamimi” billboard

January 24, 2018 by Samirah Alkassim

A major US ad firm is refusing to put up a billboard calling for the release of Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian girl who is in indefinite military custody for challenging Israeli occupation forces on her family’s property. Ahed, 16, was detained in a night raid in the occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh a month ago, after video circulated showing her and a cousin slapping and shoving two heavily armed Israeli soldiers following an incident in which a soldier had shot in the head and seriously injured their 15-year-old cousin.

Without UNRWA I wouldn’t be alive today

July 27, 2021January 19, 2018 by Samirah Alkassim

Nakba 1948 Palestine - Jaramana Refugee Camp, Damascus, Syria

Palestine Center Brief No. 309 (January 19, 2018)

How Ahed Tamimi became an icon to Palestinians

January 16, 2018 by Samirah Alkassim

Much like American civil rights icon Rosa Parks – who was arrested six decades ago by breaking the law for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white man – Tamimi has become the face of a nonviolent movement against injustice.

Panel 1 of 2017 Palestine Center Annual Conference

January 5, 2018December 22, 2017 by Samirah Alkassim

This panel features speakers Ali Abunimah, Dr. Alon Ben-Meir, Dr. Abdel Razza Tikriti, who discuss the occupation, historically and in the present, as well as human rights issues and violations.

The Palestinian Struggle: Adversity on All Fronts

July 27, 2021September 13, 2017 by Samirah Alkassim

The 2017 Palestine Center Annual Conference addresses vital issues related to the 50 year Israeli occupation, coordination of the Palestinian Authority with the occupation, and Israel’s human rights violations. Panelists also examine the continuing problem of representation and media bias when it comes to the Palestinian issue, and analyze the status of Jerusalem, situation of Gaza, and persistence of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement with its challenges and successes in the United States.

The Plight of Child Prisoners: Israel’s Glaring Human Rights Violations

July 27, 2021July 14, 2016 by Palestine Center Interns

By Palestine Center Interns — Sarah Dickshinski and Mirvat Salameh

In February 2016 there were 438 Palestinian minors being held in Israeli prisons and since this time the number of Palestinian child detainees in Israel has barely decreased. Victims of abuse and subject to harsh Israeli military laws that deprive them of their basic rights, Palestinian children find themselves part of larger system of inequality and oppression imposed by Israel in Palestine. Although Israel has been called out time and time again for violating international conventions protecting minors, its military forces continue to wage war against a defenseless portion of the Palestinian population.