Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research is a center for documentation, research and promotion of human rights within the context of the conflict.
Akevot locates, digitizes and catalogues various forms of documentation on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It promotes the rights of victims of human rights violations, their relatives and communities to receive information regarding the circumstances of the violation. It investigates the mechanisms, actions and the policies that lead to the violations of human rights in the conflict and also address incidents whose narratives and collective memories play a role in the perpetuation of the conflict. It is working to expand the public’s access to documentation about the conflict held in government and private archives. It promotes the realization of human rights within the framework of the conflict by providing professional assistance in its field of expertise to human rights struggles of organizations, communities and individuals.
Recent news and publications from Akevot:
- State Archive Error Shows Israeli Censorship Guided by Concerns Over National Image (Haaretz 5 January 2022)
- When Israel’s Education Minister Said a Jewish Child Is Worth Twice as Much as an Arab Child (Haaretz 10 December 2021)
- Classified Docs Reveal Massacres of Palestinians in ’48 – and What Israeli Leaders Knew (Haaretz 9 Dec 2021)
- ‘Unpleasant’ War Crimes: The Secret Docs Israel Insists on Censoring (Haaretz 18 Oct 2021)
- Israel Secretly Detained Innocent Palestinians in Remote Desert Camps in Sinai (Haaretz 29 July 2021)
- Ben-Gurion’s Uncensored Diary Revealed: ‘Pester and Motivate the Refugees to Move Eastward’ (Haaretz 6 May 2021)
- Qafr Qassem Document Library (Akevot)
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Website: https://akevot.org.il/en/
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Twitter: @Akevot
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* FMEP awarded a grant to the New Israel Fund, in support of its existing work/fundraising for Akevot.