Racist Ministers Call to Expel Gaza’s Palestinians, Build Settlements in Strip

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s two senior far-right partners endorsed the rebuilding of settlements in the occupied Gaza Strip and the encouraging of “voluntary emigration” of Palestinians on Monday, while far-right opposition MK Avigdor Liberman called for Israel to reoccupy southern Lebanon. Speaking during their parties’ respective faction meetings in the Knesset, National Security Minister Itamar…

Israel Deports Detainee Palestinian-French Lawyer

Israel deported a Palestinian-French lawyer, Salah Hamouri to France early Sunday morning, in a case that an Israeli lawmaker, Ofer Cassif (Hadash), called a “gross violation of basic rights.” Hamouri, 37, had been held under a controversial practice known as administrative detention, which allows suspects to be detained for renewable periods of up to six…

A ballot for the Joint List

On Election Day, the Joint List Will Increase its Knesset Representation

The citizens of Israel have another date today (Monday, March 2) with the ballot box in an unprecedented third general election in less than a year. The previous two rounds ended in deadlocks between far-right Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s right-wing/settler/religious bloc and a cluster of Zionist center parties led by challenger MK Benny Gantz. Neither of…