A demonstration in solidarity with Palestinian residents of occupied East Jerusalem threatened with eviction orders will be held tomorrow, Sunday, December 9. The group of peace activists organizing the demonstration has written: “This Hanukkah we shall drive away the darkness, not Palestinian families from their homes. Together we will resist home demolitions! We say no…
Protests will be held next week during the visit to Israel by Italian Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini on December 11-12. The neo-facist Salvini, who leads the far-right Northern League, is known for his racist positions on immigration and his opposition to accepting asylum requests. Salvini also stirred protests when he vowed…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he will chair a new ministerial committee on combating domestic violence, even though his government failed to budget funds for such a plan proposed by an earlier task force. Netanyahu’s announcement drew criticism from Joint List MK Aida Touma-Sliman (Hadash), who heads the Knesset Committee on the Status…
The government’s plan to fight domestic violence has yet to receive a budget despite promises when the plan was approved a year ago to earmark to it 250 million shekels ($67 million) over a five year period. Due to the delay in funding, the Knesset Research and Information Center has stated that it is impossible…
The National Union of Students announced on Saturday evening, November 10, that starting Monday the 12th students at eight public colleges throughout Israel will launch a strike in support of senior staff at these institutions of higher learning whose own strike entered its fourth week on Sunday. About 30,000 students have not been able to…
On July 19, 2018, the Israeli parliament passed a basic law defining Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish People. This law is concentration and culmination of Israeli right and extra-right politics. On a dozen points: It asserts the Jewish ethnical predominance in Israel. It promotes the Jewish settlements, including the illegal Jewish settlement, in…
About 140 artists, including musicians, writers, actors, directors, novelists, and poets from around the world have signed a letter calling for the boycott of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest, which is scheduled to be held in Israel next spring. The group of artists , including six Israelis , are demanding the song contest should be…
The Higher Arab Monitoring Committee expressed satisfaction with the march and rally against the racist Nation-State law held Saturday night, August 11, in Tel Aviv. Committee Chairman and former Hadash MK Mohammad Barakeh published in Al-Ittihad, the daily newspaper of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI), a letter Monday morning, August 13, thanking the participants…
Tens of thousands of Arabs and Jews from around the country gathered last night, Saturday, August 11, in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square for the second large-scale protest in eight days against the recently passed racist Nation-State Law. The crowd marched from Rabin Square to the Tel Aviv Museum, carrying signs in Hebrew and Arabic calling…
A friendly football match between Argentina and Israel that had been scheduled to take place in Jerusalem this Saturday, June 9, has been cancelled, according to Argentinean and Israeli media. The match which was to take place in Jerusalem’s Teddy Kollek Stadium was to be Argentina’s final game before they kicked off their World Cup…