An theatre workshop open to the general public will be held this evening, Saturday, May 13, at the Holot Detention Center in the Negev from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. “Holot Theatre – Generation 2.0” is joint project of Liat Shabtai, Rotem Goldenberg and Awet Asheber. Actors and creative partners under the guidance of Chen…
Joint List Chairman MK Ayman Odeh undertook a day-long fast on Thursday, May 11, in solidarity with the hunger striking Palestinian prisoners. From inside the a protest tent set up in Nazareth, Odeh said: “I joined the strike in identification with the struggle of the political prisoners in order to help increase awareness in the…
The hunger strike launched by more than a thousand Palestinian prisoners and detainees on April 17 is a non-violent protest focusing on several valid, basic demands for improved prison conditions. Because the Palestinian inmates are held in facilities in Israel, in contravention of international law, Israel imposes severe restrictions on family visits, and many relatives…
A crowd of thousands, Arabs and Jews, gathered in Nazareth on Saturday morning, April 29, to take part in the city’s annual May Day march. As well as marking International Workers’ Day, the demonstrators marched against the occupation and the government’s repression of Palestinians and the neo-liberal social and economic policies of Netanyahu’s far-right government.…
Palestinian workers entering Israel through the Eyal Checkpoint on Thursday morning, April 27, probably hadn’t expected to be handed flowers by members of the Knesset. But that’s exactly what happened at 5am on Thursday morning at one of the busiest checkpoints for Palestinian laborers from the occupied territories who cross into Israel each morning for…
Towards this year’s May Day, the International Workers’ Solidarity day, several rallies will be held across Israel, in Tel Aviv, Nazareth, Kufr Yassif in the Western Galilee, and various others locations. Activists from Hadash (The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality), the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) and the Young Communist League are involved in…
The Israel Prison Service (IPS) has suspended family visitation rights to Palestinian prisoners and is continuing its crackdown on prisoners as the large-scale “Freedom and Dignity” prisoner hunger strike led by Marwan Barghouti entered its third day. Some 1,500 prisoners are participating in the strike, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Tuesday. Amnesty…
As has been the case for the past 11 years, on the eve of this year’s Memorial Day, April 30, Combatants for Peace and the Israeli-Palestinian Parents Circle – Families Forum, will conduct the Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day Ceremony. The event will be held at the Shlomo Group Arena, Tel Aviv. According to Mohamed Owedah and Udi…
“We put forward a holistic worldview, one that sees the interrelations between the ongoing occupation of Palestinian Territories, the growing social and economic disparities within the Israeli society, and the attacks by the government on democratic freedoms and on the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel”, said Alon-Lee Green, a leading activist of the new Jewish-Arab movement…
Workers of the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) briefly interrupted Channel 1’s flagship news program on Monday night, March 13, in a preview of labor actions planned to take place in protest against the imminent closure of the ailing public broadcasting network which is to be replaced by a new, state-run media conglomerate. An image of…