MK Aida Touma-Sliman (Hadash – Joint List) during the debate on Israel’s 2019 budget in the Knesset plenum

Joint List Votes against Israel’s Militarized & Neo-Liberal Budget

The Joint List has rejected the government’s proposed general state budget for 2019. During a plenum debate in the Knesset Communist MK Aida Touma-Sliman (Hadash – Joint List) argued that the budget prepared by the government is designed to reinforce the occupation, intensify settlement construction, deepen discrimination and prejudice against the state’s Arab citizens, and…

Ushers brawl with Joint List lawmakers to take away the latter’s signs declaring "Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine” before ousting them from the Knesset plenum during US Vice President Mike Pence’s speech in Jerusalem on January 22, 2018.

Ministers Rebuked for Calling Joint List MKs “Traitors” & “Terrorists”

The Knesset Ethics Committee reprimanded two cabinet ministers on Monday, March 12, for branding lawmakers from the Joint List “terrorists” and “traitors.” The committee also acknowledged that the Joint List MKs had breached protocol when they disrupted US Vice President Mike Pence’s speech to the Knesset on January 22. MKs from the Joint List held…

Asylum seekers, activists and residents of south Tel Aviv marched through the city streets to protest the planned deportation of thousands of asylum seekers from Israel, March 9, 2018.

International Women’s Day: Hundreds March in South Tel Aviv against the Planned Deportations

Over 700 women, both asylum seekers and long-term residents of south Tel Aviv, gathered Friday morning, March 9, for a solidarity march through the city’s southern neighborhoods, calling for the government to stop the planned deportation of asylum seekers from the country. The women marched from the Achoti (“My Sister”) center, until they reached Levinsky…