Breaking The Silence

IDF Spokesperson's Unit pushes back after former soldier joins Breaking the Silence

IDF Spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Effie Defrin responded to the announcement with an urgent letter sent to unit commanders, saying that the soldier's remarks "do not reflect" the unit and those within it.

Ayelet Kroizer.
A PALESTINIAN man walks past Hebrew graffiti that reads, ‘Death to Arabs,’ on the wall of a home allegedly damaged house by Israeli settlers in the village of Deir al-Hatab in the West Bank, in March 2026.

Two Palestinians killed, four wounded in West Bank settler attack on school

A site of an Israeli strike on a house, in Deir Al-Balah the Gaza Strip. April 7, 2025.

NGO alleges IDF razed civilian homes for buffer zone, did not have clear rules of engagement

 IDF soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip, October 26, 2024.

Anonymous soldier claims IDF uses human shields in Gaza - report


West Bank 'apartheid' is 'just like Nazi Germany' - former IDF commander

"For 57 years there has been no democracy" in the West Bank, Amiram Levin said. "There is absolute apartheid there."

 Amiram Levin speaks at a conference organized by Zionist Camp parliament member Erel Margalit in Tel Aviv. May 22, 2016.

10% of Israeli Jews think terrorist Baruch Goldstein is a 'national hero' - poll

Baruch Goldstein was a Jewish settler and terrorist who massacred 29 Palestinians in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron in 1994. Some Israelis still support him.

 An ultra-orthodox Jew, in 1995, kisses the tombstone of Baruch Goldstein, the Israeli settler who in 1994 shot and killed 29 Palestinians as they prayed in a mosque in Hebron

Breaking the Silence may speak at Jewish Agency pre-army programs

Breaking the Silence might be included among the organizations that will speak at Jewish Agency pre-army programs.

 AN IDF soldier stands between an Israeli resident and protestors from the NGO "Breaking the Silence" in Hebron.

IDF's facial recognition tech in West Bank probed

A Washington Post report claimed that the IDF is using facial recognition with a database containing thousands of images of Palestinians.

 An Israeli soldier holds his camera as he patrols the Lebanese-Israeli border as seen from the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila, June 2, 2011

This week in Jerusalem: 21 years coming...

A round-up of city affairs.

THE POETRY of Yehuda Amichai adorns an Emek Refaim St. lamppost.

Jerusalem gallery wins Supreme Court ruling against municipality eviction

The gallery has maintained throughout that the eviction was politically motivated.

Activists protest outside Barbur Gallery in Jerusalem, on February 08, 2017.

Breaking the Silence won’t take part in Harvard Israel Apartheid Week

Contrary to reports on a Harvard campus web portal, the NGO will not be hosting a session during the event later this month.

An Israeli soldier stands between an Israeli settler (L) and visitors on a tour held by leftwing NGO "Breaking the Silence" in the West Bank city of Hebron April 19, 2017. Picture taken April 19, 2017.

Oren Hazan, Breaking the Silence activist to be on "Big Brother"

Cohen has worked in the past as a political advisor for MK Issawi Frej, as well as acting as a witness to the "Breaking the silence" organization

Big brother is watching you !

Ilhan Omar praises Breaking the Silence exhibit on 'occupation in Hebron'

This year, J Street's "Rise to the Moment" national conference saw speakers such as presidential candidates Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Julian Castro and Amy Klobuchar.

U.S. Rep Ilhan Omar (D-MN) takes part in a discussion on "Impacts of Phobia in Our Civic and Political Discourse" during the Muslim Caucus Education Collective’s conference in Washington, U.S., July 23, 2019

Breaking the Silence won’t admit what it was doing in UK consulate’s car

Video footage shows NGO leader taking officials on a settlement tour in officially marked British cars, but the NGO refuses to comment

Did UK Consulate members chauffeur ‘Breaking the Silence’ tour guide?