The Knesset commemorated on Tuesday, July 11, Arabic Language Day – an initiative by Hadash MK Dr. Yousef Jabareen of the Joint List – for the second year in a row. That the MK who came up with the idea of dedicating a day to discuss promoting the Arabic language also heads a lobby for…
Police authorities have decided to open an investigation into the circumstances of the wounding of Hadash MK Ayman Odeh, chair of the Joint List, during the shooting incident that took place six months ago in the Arab-Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev. Odeh, filed a complaint with the Department of Police Investigations after…
Hadash MK Ayman Odeh, head of the Joint List, met with top officials of the Roman Catholic Church and Pope Francis on Wednesday, June 28, in the Vatican. The lawmaker told the pope that “It is urgent that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank be ended,” and spoke of the importance of reaching a regional…
Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Rights in Israel, has sent an urgent letter to authorities, protesting the sealing off of an Arab-Bedouin village in the country’s southern desert region. Several days ago, Israeli authorities blocked off the only entrance to Umm Bidoun, an unrecognized Bedouin village in the Naqab (Negev) desert. According to parents’…
The Knesset passed in its second and third readings, on Wednesday, April 5, a bill that will ease the way to imposing large fines and executing home demolitions for construction violations and illegal building. A member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Israel, MK Abdallah Abu Ma’arouf (Hadash – Joint List) told…
The Knesset Interior and Environmental Protection Committee approved in its second and third reading, on Sunday, April 2, an amendment to the Planning and Building Law that will make its enforcement more stringent and increase penalties for “illegal construction.” The amendment, sponsored by far-right lawmakers, calls for restricting the discretion of courts regarding the enforcement of…
Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinians from the West Bank commemorated Land Day on Thursday, March 30, in towns and villages across Israel and the occupied West Bank. Land Day is held every year on March 30 to commemorate the 1976 deaths of six Arab youths from the north of the country at the hands…
The Police Internal Investigation Unit (“Machash”) within Israel’s Ministry of Justice re-enacted on Wednesday evening, March 15, the events that led up to the shooting death of Yaqoub Abu al-Qee’an by Israeli police during a January 18 demolition raid in the Arab-Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev. In the raid a police officer…
About 200 demonstrators from Arab communities throughout Israel held a protest against home demolitions outside the Ministry of Finance in Jerusalem on Tuesday, March 14, as legislators in the nearby Knesset discussed a draft of the proposed “Kaminitz bill” that would increase penalties for and tighten enforcement against “illegal construction.” The Committee of the Heads…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is expected to visit Washington this week to meet with President Trump, presumably to discuss the political philosophy they share: power through hate and fear. A government that bars refugees and Muslims from entering the United States has much in common with one that permits Israeli settlers to steal…