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…
On Friday, March 8, a march will be held in Haifa to commemorate and express solidarity with International Women’s Day. The march and rally afterwards are being sponsored by The Democratic Women’s Movement of Israel (Tandi) and Hadash – The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality. In the invitation to the public issued by the…
Recently reelected in second spot for the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash), MK Aida Touma-Sliman, 54, is among a not-so-large group of outgoing parliamentarians who are pretty much guaranteed a place in the next Knesset after the April 9 election. Although women’s issues are dear to her heart, she said to a Haaretz…
Hundreds of Israeli peace activists, among them members of Hadash, marched from central West Jerusalem to Sheikh Jarrah, a Palestinian neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, on Friday, January 18, in solidarity with the families there who Israeli authorities want to evict. In late November, Israel’s Supreme Court rejected the Sabag and Hamad families’ appeals…
Social workers suspended all welfare services in Tel Aviv and the central part of the country, from Gedera in the south to Hedera in the north, on Thursday, December 13, calling for urgent reforms to guarantee their physical protection, provide them with higher salaries, and grant them overall improved working conditions. Since last week, the…