Jonathan Cook

Arab residents of the town of Jaffa say their neighbourhood has become the unlikely battleground for an attempted takeover by extremist Jews more familiar from West Bank settlements.

Israeli officials are using immigration police to try to deport foreign supporters of the Palestinian cause.

A group of economists say a fifth of workers' salaries were deducted by the state over 40 years and used to subsidise settlements.

Leaders of the Arab minority in Israel say they are facing an unprecedented campaign of persecution, backed by the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Human rights activists worry that the 7,000 people sponsered by right-wing groups will be placed in West Bank settlements.

Israeli parliament member's decision to join delegation to commemorate 65th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation sparks controversy.

A controversial college at Ariel close to Nablus has been granted university status, raising new fears about Israeli expansionism.

Israel is putting a multimillion-dollar defence system to intercept short-range rockets around Gaza, but analysts have questioned the economic justification.

Health officials in Israel subject female Ethiopian immigrants to a controversial birth control drug in alleged attempt to reduce number of black babies.

A year on from Operation Cast Lead, Israel's offensive in Gaza, the threads of a possible Middle East peace are so knotted that they look impossible to disentangle.

The biggest effect for Israel's 1.3 million Palestinian citizens of its assault on Gaza last winter has been to smash any remaining illusions that there is a future for the minority in a Jewish state, the community's leaders have agreed.

The abuses and violations 'were planned', and the main debate among the human rights community is whether Israel's leaders will ever be brought to account.