Raising the Alarm: Israel’s All-Out Assault on Rights Defenders

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Activists hang a poster in solidarity with outlawed Palestinian civil society organizations at the offices of one of them, the human rights group al-Haq, on August 18, 2022. © 2022 Ilia Yefimovich/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Three years ago, as the Israeli government prepared to deport me from Israel and Palestine over my human rights advocacy, I wrote in The Forward that, should the deportation proceed without sanction from the international community, it could provide a greenlight for authorities to “further restrict or even shut down the work of Israeli and…

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