Former Minister of Environmental Protection Avi Gabai

Environment Minister Quits over Liberman Appointment to Defense

An Israeli minister announced his resignation on Friday, May 27, in response to the ultra-right Yisrael Beytenu party’s joining the government coalition and the appointment of right-wing Avigdor Liberman as defense minister. Calling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to appoint Liberman as defense minister and expanding his coalition to include the Israel Beytenu party “a…

Among the participants in Saturday night’s mass demonstration in Tel-Aviv, from left to right in the front line of march: MK Youssef Jabareen (Joint List-Hadash), MK Michal Rozin (Meretz), Meretz leader MK Zehava Galon, Joint List chairman MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash), and the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Israel, Adel Amer; in the second line, center, MK Dov Khenin (Joint List - Hadash) holds a sign aloft: “Building an opposition; building hope.”

Thousands in Tel-Aviv Protest New Racist Defense Minister Liberman

Thousands rallied in central Tel Aviv on Saturday night, May 28, to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s appointment of Israel Beytenu’s racist head, Avigdor Liberman, as Israel’s new defense minister in last week’s coalition shakeup. Carrying Red, Palestinian and Israeli flags, protesters marched towards the Tel Aviv Likud party headquarters on King George street chanting:…

The Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the racist newcomer to the far-right Israeli government, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, address the press following last week’s coalition agreement.

Zionist Union, Yesh Atid Mostly OKed/Abstained From Racist Bills

The Zionist Union and Yesh Atid either supported or merely abstained from most of the votes on controversial bills submitted to the Knesset during the past year, the first year of Netanyahu’s far-right government, a Palestinian research institute has found. The Palestinian Forum for Israel Studies (MADAR) surveyed the Israeli opposition’s votes on various bills.…

Netanyahu Adds Racist to Gov’t; Saturday Night Demo in Tel-Aviv

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named one of Israel’s most racist politicians, Avigdor Liberman, as defense minister on Wednesday, May 25, solidifying his far-right parliamentary majority at the risk of antagonizing the international community and his own military – and clouding already slim hopes for a resumption of peace efforts and an end the occupation of…

A demonstration against racism, in front of "Super Yuda" supermarket on Sunday night, May 22

Border Police Assault Arab Super-Market Employee in Central T-A

Maysam Abu El-Quiam, an Arab employee of the supermarket “Super Yuda” located on the main thoroughfare of Ibn Gvirol Street, opposite Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square, was reportedly beaten by plainclothes Border Police officers on Sunday afternoon, May 22. According to several eyewitnesses, the motive behind the beating was the employee’s ethnicity. One of the eyewitnesses,…