As Israel prepares for elections on Oct. 27, the past four years demand a reckoning: what has prolonged far-right rule changed in law, policy, and political culture? And what does it reveal about the ability of Israeli institutions and civil society to protect rights during a time of acute crisis? Noa Sattath, Executive Director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) — one of the country’s oldest and most prominent civil and human rights organizations — offers a behind the scenes look at what it means to fight for rights through institutions that have been complicit in horrific state violence, yet remain among the few arenas where that violence can still be challenged.
Additional reading: The Association for Civil Rights in Israel
More content from this blog
- Here Where We Live Is a Home for Everyone, by Ivan Hodes – 20 July 2026
- Traoré, a Conservative, Anti-Democratic Despot. Interview with Rahmane Idrissa – 12 August 2025
- How “Remigration” Traveled from European Neo-Nazis to the White House, by GPAHE – 21 January 2026
- The Politics of Demography, by Shreya Parikh – 22 July 2026
- When Western Anti-Imperialism Supports Imperialism, by Elizabeth Cullen Dunn – 3 March 2022