Civil rights

Jesse Jackson, US civil rights leader and two-time candidate, dies at 84

Jackson was a civil rights icon, a Baptist minister, and ran twice as a candidate for the Democratic Party presidential primaries.

FEBRUARY 17, 2026|ByJAMES GENN

Civil Rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson visits with guests at the National Bar Association's annual convention on July 31, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois.

DR. MARTIN Luther King, Jr. addresses the crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, during the March on Washington on August 28, 1963.

MLK was clear: Anti-Zionism is antisemitism - opinion

The question is not what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would say today – he already told us. The question is whether we are prepared to listen.

JANUARY 18, 2026|ByMARC SCHNEIER

Claudette Colvin, who was attending Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in 1955 when she was arrested for not giving up her seat on a Montgomery city bus, visits the school in Montgomery, Alabama, US February 3, 2005.

Claudette Colvin, US civil rights pioneer who defied bus segregation, dies at 86

Although she remained a largely unsung figure in the civil rights movement for decades, Colvin's 1955 act of rebellion inspired Parks and others.

JANUARY 14, 2026|ByREUTERS

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks with US Vice President JD Vance (not pictured) during the inaugural Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) summit in Washington, DC, US, November 12, 2025.

Kennedy seeks to cut US children's access to gender-affirming care

Kennedy proposed rules barring hospitals that provide such care from participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs and prohibiting Medicaid from paying for it.

DECEMBER 19, 2025|ByREUTERS

Iran arrests at least 700 nationals for alleged ties to Israel - report

Six additional people have been executed on suspicion of collaborating with Mossad, Israel's public broadcaster KAN News noted.

JUNE 27, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Iranian Jews pray at the Abrishami synagogue at Palestine street in Tehran December 24, 2015; illustrative.

Police must cancel directive limiting international media live footage, nonprofit argues to A-G

This directive mostly targets foreign media journalists, was issued without authority, undermines essential rights, and is illegal, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel argued.

JUNE 24, 2025BySARAH BEN-NUN

Iranian missile strikes a shelter in Beersheba, killing five, June 24, 2025.

NGO: Travel is essential right, must be provided, even on Shabbat

Israel Hofsheet also demanded the particular provision of transport options to the around 150,000 Israelis stuck abroad after Israeli airspace was closed at the start of Operation Rising Lion.

JUNE 18, 2025BySARAH BEN-NUN

View of the almost empty Ben-Gurion Airport, after all flights were cancelled following an Israeli attack on Iran, June 13, 2025.

'The war in Gaza, will come to us:' Palestinians, Israeli Arabs share how war has impacted them

In this episode of JPost Asks Anything, Palestinians and Arab-Israelis discuss the impact of the Israel-Hamas War on their lives, Israeli social constructs, and more.

MAY 25, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

JPost Asks Anything: How has the Gaza War impacted Palestinians and Israeli Arabs?

Arab-Israel org. accuses Civil Service Commission of discriminating against Arab-Israelis

The Mossawa Center called for a hiring freeze in civil ministries that have not met the diversity hiring benchmarks for proportional population representation.

APRIL 13, 2025ByYOAV ETIEL

Israeli President Isaac Herzog is seen meeting with Arab women at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 25, 2023.

Jewish Life Stories: A pioneering Jewish papercut artist, a circus clown on a humanitarian mission

Remembering the Jewish pioneers from Israel and the world who made differences in their communities.

AUGUST 21, 2024ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA

Tamar Fishman poses with the artwork that became a U.S. Postal Service stamp issued on Hanukkah 2018.

Urgent appeal to Attorney-General: 'Immediately deal with police violence against protesters'

They emphasized the increasing use of skunk water and stun grenades as "conduct that characterizes dictatorships."

MAY 10, 2024ByORI SELA

Police use a water cannon to disperse protesters during a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the current Israeli government, in Tel Aviv, on February 24, 2024.

Dueling lawsuits allege discrimination against Jews, Palestinians at Columbia

A lawsuit by Palestine Legal demands Columbia reverse students' suspensions, drop charges against them, expunge their records, and offer to pay for their psychotherapy.

APRIL 26, 2024ByLEON KRAIEM