Land Day in annexed east Jerusalem (Photo: Activestills)

Arab-Palestinians in Israel rally to mark Land Day

Arab-Palestinians in Israel were on Sunday commemorating Land Day with rallies remembering six of their number who were shot dead during a 1976 demonstration against land seizure. In the northern Israeli town of Arrabe, more than 15,000 people turned out for the main demonstration, many waving Palestinian flags. A gathering was also taking place in…

MK Dov Khenin (Photo: Knesset Channel)

MK Khenin is the top Knesset member in “Social Index”

MK Dov Khenin (Hadash) is the most socially-minded and diligent lawmaker in the opposition, according to transparency and civic participation NGO The Social Guard’s “Social Index” for the Knesset’s winter session, released last Tuesday. The Social Guard ranked MKs according to how they voted on social issues. A vote is considered “social” if, according to…

PHR: Objection to the proposed amendment to the Prisons Act

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) calls to call upon the Attorney general and the Ministry of Health to withdraw their support of the proposed amendment to the law:  “Amendment to the Prisons Act  (Preventing  Damages due to Hunger Strikes), 2013.” According to PHR, this proposed amendment incorporates significant violations of human rights and medical ethics; it provides a legislative foundation…

Hassan Jabareen, lawyer and the general director and founder of Adalah, with MK Barakeh in court, Tel-Aviv, March 23, 2014 (Photo: Al Ittihad)

MK Barakeh on the verdict: “This was a political trial”

The Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court on Sunday convicted Hadash chairman and leading Communist Party member, MK Muhammad Barakeh for attacking a right-wing demonstrator during a protest eight years ago. The lawmaker was acquitted of the more serious charge of striking a soldier from an undercover unit during another demonstration against the West Bank security barrier…

Qalandia checkpoint (Photo: Activestills)

Transporting Palestinian workers inside Israel is now a crime – and that goes for taxi drivers too

The Knesset on Wednesday authorized on its second and third readings a law that codifies the criminalization of transporting “illegal workers” from the Palestinian Authority within Israel. The law specifies fines and jail time for such offenses under certain circumstances. According to the emergency order, any Israeli who transport a Palestinian worker without the appropriate…

MK Barakeh during a demonstration against occupation in Tel-Aviv (Photo: Al Ittihad)

Court decision in MK Barakeh’s political trial on next Sunday

On Sunday 23 March 2014 at 10:30 am, the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court will issue its decision in the political case against leading Communist Party of Israel member, MK Mohammed Barakeh, the head of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash). The indictment against MK Barakeh, filed in 2009, included four different charges, in…