Blade Nzimande, General Secretary of South African Communist Party and Minister of Higher Education and Training.

Israel Prevented South African Minister of Higher Education from Entering the Palestinian Territories

Israel has prevented comrade Blade Nzimande, General Secretary of the South African Communist Party and his country’s current Minister of Higher Education and Training, from entering Israel. Comrade Nzimande was supposed to lead a delegation of scholars from his country attending the opening of the African Studies Centre at Birzeit University near Ramallah in the…

Part of the procession of the 18th annual “March of Return" to the site of the village of al-Haditha, near Tiberias, April 23, 2015.

Arab-Palestinians March in Israel to Mark the Nakba

Thousands of Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel marched in protest on Thursday, April 23, the public holiday marking the 67th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel. Israel’s statehood was declared on May 14, 1948, hours before the end of the British Mandate on Palestine. However, the anniversary of the state’s founding is celebrated…

The Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony held in Tel Aviv.

Despite Right-Wing Protests: Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day Ceremony Marks 10th Anniversary

Thousands participated in the Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day alternative ceremony in Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening, April 21, which was held for its tenth consecutive year despite right-wing protests.The event, organized by Combatants for Peace and the Parents Circle – Family Forum, was held in the Tel Aviv Convention Center. While only a few hundred people participated…

From right to left and top to bottom, the first ten then-candidates (now MKs) from the Joint List

Joint List Turns Down Invitation from Arab League

Knesset Members from the Joint List decided on Monday, April 20, to currently turn down an invitation by the Arab League for a meeting at the League’s headquarters in Cairo. After holding internal consultations at their weekly meeting, the List’s MKs said that the timing was not right for such a meeting, as they presently…