January 4, 2005 - INTERACTIVE STUDY GUIDE ADDED TO ILRC WEBSITE

December 14, 2004 - NEW ILRC LOGO

April 6-9, 2004 - ILRC PRESENTS AT PALESTINE AWARENESS WEEK AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY - WASHINGTON D.C.

February, 2004 - D.C. ANTI-WAR NETWORK SUPPORTS PALESTINIAN STRUGGLE

January 24, 2004 - ILRC PARTICIPATION IN NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ORGANIZED RESISTANCE

January 21, 2004 - PUBLIC EDUCATON FLYERS DEVELOPED WITH ALLIED ORGANIZATIONS

March 2, 2007 - Six additional international laws added to website. Most important is the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court which combines international human rights and humanitarian law.

February 5, 2007 - The essay on historic background to Zionism and the Israeli conflict with the Palestinian people has been upgraded.

January 24, 2007 - The Website Map has been restructured, with sub-pages added giving greater details for the Explanantory Essays (all the Table of Contents) and Study Guides (all charts, tables, lists, outlines, etc.).

December 31, 2006 - Brief summaries of UN Security Council resolutions for 2006 are brought up-to-date on the website.

December 31, 2006 - List of brief summaries of UN General Assembly resolutions for years 1996-2000 are added to the website.

December 20, 2006 - The International Law Study Guide section on Apartheid is upgraded to describe its application to both Israel internally, and the Israeli occupation.

December 11, 2006 - An FAQ (list of frequently asked questions) has been added to the Home Page to facilitate navigation of the website.

November 26, 2006 - Essay on the Israeli occupation and military orders is revised. New section is added showing how the Israeli occupation legally fits the official legal definition of apartheid.

November 23, 2006 - List of summaries of UN General Assembly resolutions from 1947 upto 1995 are installed on website.

November 10, 2006 - The legal definition of aggression, as per UN resolution 3314 (XXIX) (1974) is added to both the sections on international law and UN resolutions.

November 3, 2006 - Many broken links in the "Israel Law Section" are fixed. Notice from visitors of other broken links or other problems are most welcomed!

October 26, 2006 - The Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples is installed in both the UN Resolutions and the International Law sections.

September 22, 2006 - Covenant of the League of Nations is installed in the international law section.

September 3, 2006 - Israeli violation of family unity principle section added to International Law Study Guide.

July 31, 2006 - Additions to the website of info on (1) the Nationality & Entry into Israel Law (2003) violating family unity, (2) the Israeli Supreme Court ruling of Qaadan v. Katzir (2000) against discrimination in land leasing, and (3) demographic info for the region.

July 7, 2006 - Upgrade to Israel Law Study Guide is installed - adding in proposed responses from International Human Rights Law to Israeli forms of discrimination and oppression. The chart of Israeli violations are re-organized chronologically.

June 29, 2006 - Upgrade to the International Law Study Guide is installed, including a new section on the application and enforcement of International Human Rights Law as indicated in the laws themselves.

June 23, 2006 - Following up on feedback from a visitor, sections on 'Israel Lands' management and leasing have been improved, mostly in the sections on Israeli Law and International Law.

May 29, 2006 - Upgrades to the International Law Study Guide are installed, including new sections on Israeli refusal of Palestinian "right of return" and Israeli destruction of Palestinian holy places.

May 18, 2006 - Public Education Flyer on UN Resolutions violated by Israel is installed on website.

May 5, 2006 - Stage 1 of the Study Guide for UN Resolutions has been installed. This includes a list of the summaries of all Security Council resolutions from 1948 to the present.

March 26, 2006 - The article on the internal Israeli system of discrimination is upgraded, and now a comparison with international law on Apartheid is included, showing Israel is technically an Apartheid State.

January 17, 2006 - The International Law Study Guide is upgraded.

January 5, 2006 - Many of the Public Education flyers are improved, and two are added, including one that contains a rebuttal to the accusation of anti-Semitism against those who criticize Israeli government policy.

December 14, 2005 - Three documents of International Law are added to the website (Vienna Conventions, which introduce Jus Cogens - "higher law" (of human rights) by which all other international laws are judged, and the 2001 Declaration of the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance).

December 3, 2005 - A new UN Document of International Law is added to the website - The International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (12 December 1951).

October 29, 2005 - A new UN Document of International Law is added to the website - The International Covenant on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (18 July 1976).

October 21, 2005 - The ILRC Website Map is upgraded.

October 16, 2005 - The U.N. Resolutions section of the website is turned into a United Nations-in-general section, and all UN documents including those pertaining to the ICJ Advisory Opinion on the wall are moved there.

October 9, 2005 - 5 new information flyers are added to the Public Education section of the website. These flyers cover discrimination within Israel, compromises of Israeli democracy, description of Israeli oppression and exploitation in the occupied territories, history of Zionist/Israeli ethnic cleansing, and Israeli violations of International Law. The Public Education essay is also rewritten.

September 19, 2005 - A second disclaimer is added to the website - to counter accusations that critics of Israel are anti-Semitic.

September 1, 2005 - Legal reasoning on how the Israeli occupation is illegal is added to the Study Guide on International Law. It is in the section on Israeli violations of International Law.

August 30, 2005 - New Study Guides are added to the Website, and all the Study Guides are integrated so they refer to each other. The new Study Guides cover the topics of International Law and the Advisory Opinion of the ICJ on Israel's barrier wall in the West Bank. The Study Guide on Israeli Military Orders is split off from the Israeli Law Study Guide to form its own Guide.

August 30, 2005 - 8 Databases are added to the Website covering the major topic areas - Israeli laws, military orders, UN resolutions, etc. These are improved versions over the previous ones. The Website is completely restructured to fit in the new features - the 8 databases and integrated Study Guides.

June 11, 2005 - Full text of eight more International Laws and related documents are added to the website.

May 29, 2005 - Full text of four International Laws pertinent to Israel's occupation of adjacent Palestinian lands are added to the website. Sortable database and essays soon to follow.

April 11, 2005 - Upgrades to the Study Guide and the navigation system on the different webpages are installed.

April 1, 2005 - The 1st Stage of the Central Index of Keywords is installed which soon will be linked to the Website databases for automatic sorting.

December 28, 2004 - The "Talking Points" page has been redone, and renamed "The Study Guide", and has been redesigned to be an interactive graduated learning tool. A second version is included (on Jan. 4) which is not interactive, and is more suitable for printing or reading altogether.

December 13, 2004 - Coverage is expanded of Defence (Emergency) Regulations of 1945.

November 15, 2004 - Nine more Laws of the State of Israel relevant to issues of civil rights are uploaded to the Website.

November 7, 2004 - Links are added to the myriad of excellent Civil Rights and Human Rights Organizations based in Israel and the adjacent occupied Palestinian territories.

September 29, 2004 - The ILRC Website has been restructured to focus on Civil Rights in Israel and the adjacent occupied territories. The other areas of the Law listed previously have been listed in a new "Future Projects" section on the Introduction page.

August 24, 2004 - An "Internet Links" section has been added to the website, below the Website Map.

July 29, 2004 - List of amendments to Laws of Israel included in this website is updated to 1989.

July 11, 2004 - Non-Violence International, our fiscal sponsor, has given us use of their 'Network for Good' account so that contributors to ILRC can now make tax-deductible donations with their credit cards. The button for doing this is now installed on the ILRC Membership page.

July 11, 2004 - The full text of the following Israeli Laws has been added to the Website:

• Agricultural Control Authority Law (passed by the Knesset 28 June 1988).
• Development Towns and Development Zones Law (passed by the Knesset 14 June 1988).
• Discharged Soldiers Law (passed by the Knesset 2 July, 1984).
• Discharged Soldiers (Adjustment Grant) Law (passed by the Knesset 22 March 1988).
• Employment (Equal Opportunities) Law (passed by the Knesset 20 May 1981).
• Equality of Opportunities in Labour Law (passed by the Knesset 23 February 1988).
• Festival of Matzot (Prohibition of Leaven) Law (passed by the Knesset 4 August 1986).
• Foundations of Law (passed by the Knesset 23 July, 1980).
• Galilee Law (passed by the Knesset 4 January 1988).
• Identity Certificate (Possession and Presentation) Law (passed by the Knesset 21 December 1982).
• Interpretation Law (passed by the Knesset 20 May, 1981).
• Israel Defence Forces (Permanent Service) (Benefits) (Consolidated Version) (passed by the Knesset 10 July 1985).
• Jerusalem Development Authority Law (passed by the Knesset 26 July 1988).
• Negev Law (passed by the Knesset 30 June, 1986).
• Negev (Amendment) Law (passed by the Knesset 8 March 1988).
• Obsolete Legislation (Repeal) Law (passed by the Knesset 27 March 1984).
• Repeal of Mejelle Law (passed by the Knesset 13 June 1984).

June 22, 2004 - Online databases for sorting amongst Israeli laws, court cases and military orders, and United Nations Resolutions concerning Palestine and Israel are now up and running. These databases enable the users to search and sort according to different fields such as keywords or dates.

June 22, 2004 - Membership/Donation page added to website.

June 22, 2004 - New feature enables users to open laws, military orders, essays and articles in separate pages. This enables the user to have open simultaneously many different laws, etc.to facilitate research.

May 19, 2004 - Analysis of the Planning and Building Law (1965) is added to the civil rights article describing how discrimination in Israel works. This is the law that created the "unrecognized villages".

April 11, 2004 - Reference Page updated.

February 28, 2004 - The "Planning and Building Law" (1965) has been installed on the Website. This Law is relevant to Israeli civil rights because the National Planning and Building Board which it creates and empowers is known for creating the "unrecognized" status of numbers of Palestinian villages, which has led to their being zoned out of official existence, thus denying them basic government services such as electricity and sewage system maintenance.

February 28, 2004 - New 2-page handout added to the Website for downloading.

January 21, 2004 - The ILRC Chronicler Newsletter is launched (online version) so that the webpage news can be differentiated from news of real world Center activities.

December 27, 2003 - The list of amendments to the Laws of Israel listed on the website is updated, indicating which Laws will soon have full texts installed on the website.

December 18, 2003 - A Study Guide has been installed on the website. This Guide can be used for planning talks, workshops, flyers, etc. on the legalized discrimination in Israel and the oppression and exploitation of the Palestinian people in Israeli and the Occupied Territories.

December 18, 2003 - Collection of Public Education Materials used in political events to educate the public about the laws of discrimination in Israel and the Occupied Territories (with an explanatory essay) is added to the Website.