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…
Several hundred persons, Arabs and Jews, participated in a demonstration in the German Colony in Haifa on late Friday afternoon, June 1, to express solidarity with the nearly 2 million Palestinian people living under the Israeli blockade and repression of the Gaza Strip. Protesters waved Palestinian and red flags and signs in Hebrew and Arabic…
Two demonstrations will be held today (Friday, June 1) against Israel’s siege of the Gaza Strip: at the Yad Mordechai junction near Sderot in the south of Israel at 12:00 and at UNESCO Square (German Colony) in Haifa at 17:00. Hadash and the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) are organizing the demonstration in Haifa. According…
A Palestinian from the Gaza Strip succumbed to his wounds on Saturday, May 26, sustained from Israeli army gunfire during the March of Return protests last week at the Gaza border with Israel, according to WAFA Palestinian News Agency correspondent. The journalist said that Hussein Salem Abu Aweida, 41, who was shot and critically injured…
Spurred by the brutal killing of more than a hundred Palestinian civilian protestors in Gaza since March 30, at least 60 of them on Monday of this week, May 14, along with the wounding and injuring of at least twelve thousand more, dozens of Communist and workers parties around the world have issued the following…
Thousands of Arabs and Jews, gathered in Nazareth on Saturday morning, April 28, to take part in the city’s annual May Day march organized by Hadash and the Communist Party of Israel (CPI). While keeping with the tradition of commemorating International Workers’ Day, the demonstrators also marched against the occupation as well as Israel’s repression…
Commemorations for this year’s May Day, the International Workers’ Solidarity day, will take place with several rallies and meetings across Israel, including in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Nazareth, Beer-Sheva, Kufr Yassif in the Western Galilee, as well as in various others locations. Activists from Hadash (The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality), the Communist Party of…
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…