Discrimination

High Court begins reviewing death penalty law as Adalah files petition after ACRI challenge

The petition argues that the law creates a discriminatory system, saying the West Bank amendments apply only to Palestinians.

Knesset approves death penalty for terrorists bill, March 30, 2026.
An example of the Nigeria Evangelical Fellowship food relief and medical outreach for Christian Internally Displaced Persons in Adamawa, northeast Nigeria.

US pressure is forcing action on anti-Christian violence, Nigerian Christian leader tells 'Post'

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International federation votes against expelling Israeli social workers' union

 South African flag.

Elite South African school apologizes over refusal to play Jewish day school at fixture


Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia conclude ‘discrimination’ conciliation

An ad hoc UN commission created to resolve a diplomatic conflict between Gulf countries concluded its work.

 U.S. Delegation Presents Report to CERD

Does Israel still discriminate against Mizrahi Jews?

Are there still gaps between Jews of Mizrahi and Ashkenazi descent in Israel today? And if so, where and how do they manifest themselves?

 SHAS CHAIRMAN Arye Deri and MK Yaacov Margi attend a Shas educational institution conference.

Israel's democracy is under threat from messianic forces in gov't

Benjamin Netanyahu has empowered messianic forces for whom the democratic Israel envisaged by the Zionist forefathers is anathema.

 MKs Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich (center right behind Arye Deri) applaud at a special session of the Knesset to swear in the new government on December 29, 2022.

Channel 14 fined for excluding Reform, Conservative Jewish content

The Reform movement submitted several requests to Channel 14 to be inclusive in the past.

 Channel 14 workers and supporters protest against Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid outside Tel Aviv Government Complex on October 11, 2022.

40% of Israeli Jewish students don't want an Arab teacher - survey

A new survey by the Levinsky-Wingate Academic Center has found that 40% of Jewish Israeli students would be opposed to an Arab teacher working at their school.

A school classroom is seen empty in Jerusalem's Beit Hakerem.

These Jews are defending Drag Story Hour against far-right protesters. Here’s why

Those protesting Drag Story Hours claim the events are harmful to children, calling parents who are bringing their kids to the event “groomers” and “pedophiles” to their face.

Downtown Manhattan's skyline is seen in New York City, US, August 21, 2021.

Israel must combat rising antisemitism worldwide

It is critical that Israel take responsibility, recognize, and expose the viral mutation and permeation of antisemitism as part and parcel of an unconventional, all-out war on its right to exist.

A man waves an Israeli flag during a rally against antisemitism, in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in May.

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's son attacks MK Struck on discrimination law

Rabbi Avraham Yosef rejected claims that his father said a Jew shouldn't treat a non-Jew on Shabbat.

 Rabbi Avraham Yosef speaks during the weekly lesson at  the home of his father, spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-orthodox Shas party Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in Jerusalem, July 13, 2013.

Revoking law that prohibits discrimination met with scorn in Jerusalem

CONSUMER AFFAIRS: Some merchants were against the proposals of the agreement, though they blamed the media and leftists for blowing things out of proportion.

 SARALEH PARTOUCHE:  I don’t have to like someone’s [lifestyle], but I can’t stop being polite to the other person. I don’t have to go home with them. It is shocking.

SodaStream publishes video warning of discrimination under new gov't

This is not a political question of right or left, but a question of values. A question of humanity," wrote SodaStream on Facebook.

 Sign reading "White persons only" in Sweden