After Attacks, Israeli Schools Confront Hate
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Isabel Kershner, Jodi Rudoren - August 27, 2012 - 12:00am

Palestinian student who speaks accentless Hebrew after years in a bilingual school that is about half Jewish, said he was not at all surprised when a mob of Jewish teenagers beat an Arab teenager unconscious this month while hundreds watched and did nothing to help.

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Palestinian man repeatedly tasered by Israeli police in front of his children
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Yaniv Kubovich, Oz Rosenberg - August 24, 2012 - 12:00am

A Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem complained to the Justice Ministry department that investigates police misconduct on Thursday after a police officer shocked him five times with an electric stun gun in front of his five children on Tuesday. The Palestinian, 42-year-old Talal Siad of the A-Tur neighborhood, was shot while out with his family at a Tel Aviv water park celebrating the Id al-Fitr holiday. Siad checked himself into the hospital suffering from burns and nausea.

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Jerusalem lynch not surprising
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ynetnews
by Yehudit Oppenheimer - (Opinion) August 24, 2012 - 12:00am

The cruel attempted lynch in Jerusalem's Zion Square on the eve of Eid al-Fitr was not supposed to surprise us – the writing has been on the wall for a long time. This is why it is so hard to accept the fact that it took police a few days to admit that the attack on a Palestinian teen occurred in the heart of Jerusalem in front of a crowd – part of which egged the attackers on.

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Jerusalem Bullies Need a Dose of Respect
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Media Line
by Felice Friedson - (Opinion) August 23, 2012 - 12:00am

Jerusalem’s Zion Square, located in the city center, where rallies mobilize, concerts convene, street fairs assemble, and pedestrians abound, caught the attention of local media and became the topic weekend table talk when it was learned that 17-year old Jamal Julani, an Israeli Arab from east Jerusalem who went to meet a friend who was working at a local restaurant nearby, nearly died from a savage beating unleashed by a gang of Jewish “tough teens,” who were out cruising the streets, apparently looking for a victim.

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Israel Police: Hundreds watched attempt to lynch Palestinians in Jerusalem, did not interfere
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Oz Rosenberg - August 20, 2012 - 12:00am

After initially treating the event as a brawl, police on Sunday for the first time referred to the attack on Palestinian youths by dozens of Jewish teens in Jerusalem early last Friday as a "lynching." A police representative told the Magistrate's Court that hundreds of people watched the event without helping the victims. Witnesses say the attack lasted a short while before police arrived and the attackers fled.

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Israeli police arrest suspects in Jerusalem attack
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
August 20, 2012 - 12:00am

Israeli police have arrested a total of five suspects in connection with an attack in Jerusalem early Friday that left a Palestinian citizen of Israel seriously injured, an Israeli police spokesman said Sunday. Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told Ma'an that a special investigation team is looking into the incident and trying to work out the exact nature of the attack. Five suspects, including one female, aged between 13-19 have been arrested in connection with the assault, which took place in the early hours of Friday in West Jerusalem's Zion Square.

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In suspected Jerusalem lynch, dozens of Jewish youths attack 3 Palestinians
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Nir Hasson - (Analysis) August 17, 2012 - 12:00am

Dozens of Jewish youths attacked three young Palestinians in Jerusalem's Zion Square early on Friday morning, in what one witness described as "a lynch" on Facebook. One of the Palestinians was seriously wounded and hospitalized in intensive care in Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem. Acting Jerusalem police chief, General Menachem Yitzhaki, gas set up a special team to investigate the incident and detain the suspects.

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Palestinian prisoner refuses water after two months on hunger strike
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
August 15, 2012 - 12:00am

A Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike for more than two months refused water on Wednesday in a new challenge, protesting the renewal of his administrative detention. The Palestinian Prisoners' Association said that Hassan Safadi went on a hunger strike on June 21 and was promised by Israeli authorities to be released by the end of his administrative detention term. However, this term has now been renewed for another six months, prompting him to refuse water.

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Israeli rights groups ask court to stop razing of Bedouin villages
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
August 15, 2012 - 12:00am

Several Israeli human rights organizations petitioned the High Court on Tuesday to prevent the demolition of five Bedouin villages. The petition is spearheaded by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and is aimed at averting the construction of agricultural settlements in the area of Mevo'ot Arad, in the Negev. These Jewish settlements, seven of them, will be built after the existing Bedouin villages, which are home to hundreds of families, are razed.

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Nearly sisters: Arab and Israeli women's common challenges
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Khaled Diab - (Opinion) August 9, 2012 - 12:00am

A photo of a presumed Israeli soldier exercising her right to bare arms – and legs and midriff – with a machine gun slung casually over her shoulder has gone viral.

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