Car Rams Protesters Injuring Five, as 100,000 in Tel Aviv Demand Elections Now

Opponents of far-right Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, April 7, issued harsh condemnations of his failure to immediately address an incident the previous evening in which a car rammed into anti-government protesters in Tel Aviv. “Cease fire now!” and “Israel-Palestine, two states for two peoples,” Hadash demonstrators at Kaplan Street in Tel-Aviv, Saturday evening,…

Urgent Appeal from the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem

Settlers attempt to seize Armenian properties under the protection of Israeli authorities in the Armenian Quarter in occupied East Jerusalem. Tensions have mounted in the past month after an Australian-Israeli developer leased 25% of the Armenian Quarter, which is home to about 2,000 Armenian Christians, from the Armenian patriarch against the community’s will. A coveted…

Knesset Passes Law Aimed at Silencing Al Jazeera

The Knesset approved on Monday evening, April 1, the so-called Al Jazeera law, giving the government temporary powers to prevent foreign news networks from operating in Israel if they are “deemed by the security services to be harming national security.” The law passed 71 to 10 in its second and third readings in the Knesset…

Day 2 of Jerusalem Massive Protests Against Far-Right Gov’t

The second day on Monday, March 1, of a planned four-day demonstration outside the Israeli parliament saw thousands of people once again gather on Jerusalem’s Kaplan Street, just below the Knesset and other government buildings to demand the resignation of far-right Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, as well as the return of Israeli…