Israel has released from the Negev’s Saharonim Prison the last of approximately 200 jailed African asylum seekers, the Interior Ministry announced on Sunday, April 15. This came following the failure of the government to reach any final deal for deporting them along with thousands of other Eritrean and Sudanese men. The far right government has…
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman announced Tuesday, April 10, that Israel will deny entry permits to 110 Palestinians who were planning to participate in the annual Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day Ceremony next Tuesday, April 17. Liberman called the alternative Memorial Day ceremony, organized jointly by Combatants for Peace and the Bereaved Families Forum, a “show of poor taste and…
Starting today, Monday April 9, protestors at Ugandan embassies around the world as well as outside the Ugandan legation in Israel will demand: “Don’t cooperate with the Israeli PM’s plan to deport African people.” The organizers of the worldwide protest have written: “People around the world understand that seeking asylum is a basic right, and…
Two days before International Women’s Day, March 8, the government’s far-right Minister of Science and Technology, Ofir Akunis, sparked a controversy in the Knesset when he told women parliamentarians that if “you continue to whine, you will never become leaders.” “You want to mark Women’s Day, and that’s fine,” Akunis said in remarks during a…
AMEC (The Afro-Middle East Centre of South Africa) hosted in Johannesburg last week a seminar entitled “Resistance from Within: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Struggle for Democracy, Equality and Justice.” Speakers included MK Ayman Odeh, Mustafa Abu Raiya and Ran Greenstein; the seminar was chaired by Tasneem Essop. “We’ve come to spread our cause…
The Palestinians living in Susya in the occupied West Bank should appeal to the United Nations and the US administration to save their village from demolition by the Israel military, Joint List MK Dov Khenin said during a solidarity visit to the area on Sunday, February 18, along with the head of the Joint List,…
Four members of the Israeli left-wing organization of university and college lecturers, “Academia for Equality,” traveled to Istanbul in January to bear witness to and protest political trials being conducted against about 150 Turkish academics. The latter are facing terrorism-related charges for signing a petition opposing their government’s assaults against its Kurdish citizens, including the…
A proposal has been submitted by opposition MKs Aida Touma-Suleiman (Hadash – Joint List), Eyal Ben Reuven (Zionist Union) and Michal Rozin (Meretz) regarding the state authorities’ handling of African asylum seekers, and rejecting the government’s plans to indiscriminately deport all such persons. The authors of the proposal note how recent publications indicate that the…
The Sudanese regime arrested the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Sudan (CPS), Muhammed Mokhtar Al-Khatib, and a number of party cadres on Wednesday, January 17. This move came in response to the CPS’s call to the Sudanese people to demonstrate against the increase in the price of bread which resulted in mass demonstrations…
Some 30,000 persons took part in the Women Wage Peace rally in Jerusalem’s Independence Park on Sunday night, October 8. The rally was the culmination of a peace march that began two weeks ago, on September 24, and in which thousands of Israeli and Palestinian women, many of whom have themselves been personally affected by…