B’tselem and Human Rights
Israel Palestine conflict deaths

B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories has been documenting, researching, and publishing statistics, evidence, and reports on Israel’s human rights violations in the Occupied Territories since its founding in 1989. The organization’s name, B’tselem, means “in the image of” in Hebrew, referencing Genesis 1:27 (“And God created humankind in His image. In the image of God did He create them.”) to express the Jewish moral of protecting the human rights of all people. This independent, non-partisan, and award-winning organization finds that equality for Jews and Palestinians in the region can only be realized once the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime end.

B’Tselem’s statistics databases provide irrefutable evidence of human rights violations by Israel in the Occupied Territories. The Fatalities database shows asymmetrical deaths since the Second Intifada in September 2000: 10,160 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces, 849 Israeli civilians killed by Palestinians, and 444 Israeli security forces killed by Palestinians. Among the over ten thousand Palestinians killed were 2,213 Palestinian minors killed by Israeli security forces.

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A Burglary Motivated by Racism

A Burglary Motivated by Racism

Haaaretz journalists Gideon Levy and Alex Levac reported on a West Bank burglary case in 2020 in which a small Palestinian business was repeatedly burglarized by Jewish settlers. Was this burglary motivated by racism? Mohammed Mahmadi, 29, left his restaurant job in...

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Curt’s Hebron

Curt’s Hebron

Curtis Bell, President of Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, spoke to the First Unitarian Church’s Department of Social Justice about his two months in Hebron and what he learned about the Palestinian experience under Israeli occupation. Video...

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Virginia Tech GPSS

Virginia Tech GPSS

The Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) at Virginia Tech passed a resolution in October 2021 demanding that the University’s administration enact an academic boycott of Israel and institutions “complicit in maintaining the Israeli occupation.” The...

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