Palestinian detainee, Maher al-Akhras, continued his hunger strike for the 100th consecutive day on Tuesday, November 3, to protest his detention without trial by Israeli authorities, who have accused him of involvement in a terror group. A solidarity demonstration with the prisoner was held on Tuesday by the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel…
Hadash MKs and 80 Jewish and Arab activists, most of them members of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI), together with Rabbis for Human Rights, took part last Friday, October 30, in the olive harvest in the village of Burin in the occupied West Bank. The volunteers assisted Palestinian farmers gather the harvest from their trees.…
Leading member of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI), Hadash MK Ofer Cassif (Joint List), and the family of Palestinian hunger-striker Maher al-Akhras, 49, announced on Saturday, October 24, that they would join him in his action after Israeli authorities refused to allow them to visit the hospitalized political prisoner, despite fears that he is close…
Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, May Day events commemorating this year’s International Workers’ Solidarity Day will take place tomorrow, Friday May 1, with a number of rallies and demonstrations across Israel, including in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem, Nazareth, Acre, Kufr Yassif in the Western Galilee, and other locales. Activists from Hadash (The Democratic Front for Peace and…
Under the slogan “Solidarity Yes – Blockade No,” dozens of Communist Parties around the world have signed a joint statement demanding the immediate lifting of the criminal US blockade against Cuba. The text of the statement signed by the parties follows: “As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread over the entire planet causing enormous human…
Bolivia’s interim government wants military Israel to help local authorities fight “terrorism” in the Latin-American country, the interior minister told Reuters on Friday, December 6, alleging plots by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and other leftists to destabilize the coup government. Without providing details, Arturo Murillo said Bolivian police “were investigating radical leftists, allegedly linked to…
Hundreds of journalists joined a march and protest rally organized by the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) on Thursday, November 21, against the decision by Israeli authorities to shut down the television offices of Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) in Jerusalem. The offices of PBC Television, a channel funded by the Palestinian Authority, received orders to close…
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:…