Police arrest an activist during a protest against the privatization of natural gas in Tel Aviv, November 7, 2015.

ACRI Petitions Supreme Court against Imposing Criminal Liability on Protest Organizers

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) petitioned the Supreme Court to order police to stop demanding that applicants who request licenses to conduct protests bear criminal responsibility for any violation by demonstrators. The petition was filed together with four activists who are involved in organizing protests against the gas privatization deal across Israel…

MK Odeh: Netanyahu Still Being Led by Settlers Who Control His Coalition; Protest Today in Tel-Aviv

Joint List chairman, MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash) blasted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday, October 8, after the PM extended to Arab MKs the ban he imposed a day earlier on Jewish MKs and ministers from ascending Al-Aqsa Mosque (Temple Mount). “Netanyahu is wobbly; he has no position or backbone,” Odeh slammed and continued: “Furthermore, Netanyahu has…