Rabbis for Human Rights

14/06/2026

Watch till the end to see what happens when a Palestinian shepherd calls to report their flock stolen by settlers.

Cattle theft has become a routine tactic in the settlers tactics to economically cripple the most vulnerable rural farming communities in the West Bank.

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14/06/2026

Expelling a community from its home is not a Jewish act.

On Friday, Jews and Palestinians marched together to Khan al-Ahmar, where residents are facing a real and immediate threat of forced expulsion. We adamantly refuse complicity in the act of expulsion and demand changing course.

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14/06/2026

On Friday, we joined hundreds of Israeli and Palestinian representatives from peace organizations, human rights groups, and humanitarian aid organizations to launch the Paris Call for Two States.

With the French Foreign Minister and senior diplomats from across Europe in the room, RHR’s own Anton Goodman read the Call aloud alongside Amira Musalem from UCPiP. A Jewish and Palestinian leader stood side by side, grounded in the simple understanding that there is no future of security, freedom, and dignity for both peoples without an end to the conflict and a genuine political horizon.

After the event, civil society activists, human rights defenders, and diplomats walked together onto the bridge over the Seine to send a clear message: even in the hardest and most painful of times, there are those who refuse to give in to despair and keep working toward peace, justice, and a shared future for Israelis and Palestinians.

In days when voices of hatred, incitement, and despair seem to come from every direction, we must remember that another way exists: the way of partnership, mutual recognition, and hope.

Photo Credit: French Ministry of Foreign Affairs

11/06/2026

*THIS WEEK ON THE PLURALIST PODCAST*
In the latest episode of The Pluralist Podcast, Rabbi Josh Weinberg and I speak with Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie—an Israeli-born rabbi, storyteller, q***r Jewish leader, and co-founding spiritual leader of Lab/Shul in New York. Raised in one of Israel’s most prominent Orthodox rabbinic families, Amichai became the first openly q***r rabbi in 39 generations of his family. His journey is also at the center of the award-winning documentary Sabbath Queen.

This is a conversation about Pride and prejudice, progress and backlash, and what it means to refuse the choice between q***r identity, Jewish tradition, and a deep connection to Israel.

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10/06/2026

Countries friendly to Israel are now saying clearly what the Israeli government refuses to say.

France has announced sanctions against Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, along with dozens of settlers and heads of organizations involved in advancing the settlements and the violence in the West Bank. Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Norway have joined similar measures against organizations and activists identified with the far right and with settler violence.

The sanctions include entry bans, asset freezes, and restrictions on fundraising and public activity. This is an extraordinary step from countries that are among Israel’s closest allies.

We need to be clear about what this means: the world is not imposing sanctions simply to criticize Israel, but because they see settler violence, Jewish terror, and annexation becoming official policy. They see how the government extends political backing to those who harm Palestinians, seize land, and undermine a just rule of law.

The settlements in the West Bank are not only a violation of international law. They also run counter to the values of justice, compassion, and equality on which Jewish tradition rests. You cannot speak in the name of Judaism while supporting dispossession, violence, and the supremacy of one people over another.

The sanctions are a warning sign. They reveal the depth of the moral, political, and diplomatic crisis into which the Israeli government is dragging the country.

But Paris and London will not change this reality, and they should not have to be the ones to name it. That responsibility belongs to all of us who carry the Jewish tradition and refuse to see it betrayed. Now more than ever, Israel needs Jewish allies and people of conscience around the world to recognize what is happening, to say so plainly, and to stand with those working to change it.

Only Israel can stop the violence, resist the occupation and the settlements, and return to its moral and democratic path. But it will not walk that path alone. Diaspora communities who love this place and refuse to look away are part of this struggle, and your voice carries further than you think.

10/06/2026

A small victory that is actually a huge one.

For two months, a closed military zone choked the rural communities around Duma, in the occupied West Bank. It strangled the village of Marajim and opened the door to the violent expulsion of Bedouin families in eastern Duma. The order was meant to last a full year.

Yesterday, after we pressed the matter again through the Palestinian coordination office, that zone was cancelled. Whole communities are breathing easier today. And the army has now approved the repair of the road between Duma and Marajim, one that settlers tore apart with a tractor nearly two months ago.

Pitted against a wayward justice system, we keep asking questions, making calls, and keep showing up, because the dignity of these families is not negotiable. This is what it looks like when persistence pays off.

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09/06/2026

08/06/2026

Yesterday in Khan al ahmar and surrounding communities we were happy to host candidates from the Democrat party: MK Naama Lazimi, Yariv Oppenheimer & Moran Michel.

Together with Peace Now, Standing Together & Bnei Avraham, we met residents of the communities who shared their experience of settler terrorism and military restrictions.

We look to all political parties to use the coming elections to bring an end to settler terror and to begin working for human rights for all!

07/06/2026

⚠️ Graphic Content | Huwara, West Bank - 06.06.26

This is what impunity looks like. RHR stands with the communities of Huwara and will not look away.

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07/06/2026

"Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God He made man." (Genesis 9:6)
The chain of bloodshed of recent days cannot be disconnected from one another. The murderous attack this morning in Kochav Yair, the violent and criminal pogrom carried out by Jewish rioters in Huwara on Shabbat, and the killing of the seven-month-old Palestinian infant in Hebron: these are all links in the same lethal cycle of terror. A cycle driven by extremists who have lost the capacity to see the divine image in another human being.
The time has come to speak a hard truth. We must fulfill the commandment of "you shall surely rebuke your neighbor": Jewish terror in Huwara is one of the gravest acts of chilul Hashem (desecration of God's name) imaginable. Those who go out masked to set homes ablaze, to spread fear, and to harm innocent people are not defending the Torah. They are desecrating it. A society that permits such terror to exist, that normalizes it or grants it political backing, has lost its moral compass.

Our concern does not end with the rioters themselves. It extends to the question of how we arrived at a situation in which Jewish terror is expanding on the ground, while the state and the IDF are sometimes perceived as having lost either the capacity or the will to stop it. A state that allows extremist groups to terrorize civilians and operate above the law endangers not only Palestinians, but Israeli democracy and the foundations of Jewish morality itself.

Palestinian terror, as brutal as the attack this morning in Kochav Yair, does not operate in a vacuum either. It feeds on hatred and generates more hatred. This is a lethal transaction in which extremists on both sides fuel one another and drown us all in blood. Each provides the justification for the next attack; each provides the pretext for the next pogrom.
The hypocrisy that applauds "our" violence while expressing outrage only at the violence of the other is a moral and religious sin. The Torah demands one law and one standard. Whoever cannot condemn Jewish terror with the same resolve with which they condemn Palestinian terror, and whoever cannot condemn Palestinian terror with the same clarity with which they condemn Jewish terror, is a partner in the blindness that is destroying this land.

As our sages taught: "Whoever destroys a single soul, it is as though they have destroyed an entire world." These days, we are watching entire worlds being destroyed in the name of fanatical nationalism, blind messianism, and hatred of the other. Our Jewish and moral obligation is to stop this cycle of bloodshed before it claims still more innocent lives.

Photo: Fahd Abu Haikal holds up an image of his son Sam, seven months old, who was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier.