The Communist Party of Israel (CPI) condemned Wednesday evening, October 9, the shooting attack near a synagogue in the eastern German city of Halle, in which the assailant killed two people in the vicinity after he failed to break into the Jewish house of worship. The two mortally wounded victims were 40-year-old Jana Lange and 20-year-old…
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has affirmed his country’s unconditional support for the Palestinian cause out of a sense of moral and humanitarian obligations. Maduro’s vow was made during a meeting with the Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad al-Malki, on the sidelines of the Ministerial Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) held in…
Communist Knesset member Aida Touma-Sliman sent official letters of solidarity to two Democratic Congresswomen, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, “to express my appreciation for your tireless work on behalf of the Palestinian people” and “in light of President Trump’s racist recent attacks” upon them as the members of the US House of Representatives. Touma-Sliman wrote:…
Following is a joint statement signed by dozens of communist parties around the world as an expression of their consistent support for the struggle of the Sudanese people for peace, democracy, human rights and social justice. Since 19 December 2018, we have closely followed the struggle of the Sudanese working people against the repression meted…
Sudanese dictator Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, who ruled his nation for 30 years after coming to power in a military coup in 1989, was arrested and forced to step down by his country’s military on Thursday, April 11, after months of popular protests against his regime. Sudanese armed forces also arrested Prime Minister Mohamed Taher Ayala…
On the Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings before the Tuesday, April 9, general elections, mailboxes belonging to residents of Tel Aviv were stuffed with new a campaign flyer from Hadash-Ta’al that reads, “Your neighbor is an Arab,” to remind Israel’s majority Jewish population that more than one fifth of their fellow citizens are Arabs. The…
Hundreds of Israeli peace activists, among them members of Hadash and the Communist Party of Israel, held a demonstration on Saturday evening, March 30, in solidarity with Palestinian protestors in Gaza. The protesters gathered outside Israel’s main military headquarters in central Tel Aviv, to mark the 44th Land Day and one year since the beginning…
A demonstration in solidarity with a young Communist soldier incarcerated in a military prison since last month had been scheduled to place on Saturday, March 16 at 12:00 outside Military Prison 6 in Athlit, south of Haifa. The Israeli army had initially sent Roman Levin there after he arrived at the military base near Lod…
Communist candidate Dr. Ofer Cassif, today said he believes the decision to prohibit him from participating in the upcoming general election is fueled by the right-wing’s desire to eliminate Jewish-Arab cooperation. Speaking to Middle East Monitor, Cassif said the Central Elections Committee deliberately targeted him in its decision to bar him from contesting the upcoming…
The New York Times published the following op-ed piece by MK Ayman Odeh last Friday, March 8, 2019. MK Odeh leads the Joint List, the third-largest bloc in the Knesset, and is chairman of the Hadash-Ta’al list in the upcoming elections. I was sitting in my family’s home in Haifa in 1984 when I watched…