Social workers block traffic at the Mahanaim Junction in the Upper Galilee on Monday morning, July 13.

Social Workers’ Strike Enters Its Second Week amidst Daily Protests

The nationwide strike of Israel’s social workers entered its second week on Monday, July 13, a day after Shaul Meridor, Director of Budgets within the Finance Ministry, announced that the social workers’ demands to improve their working conditions are “irrelevant.” Meridor is a scion of a privileged right-wing, revisionist Zionism family, politically prominent from before the…

Masses Protest in Tel Aviv against Gov’t’s Neoliberal Economic Policy

Many thousands of demonstrators, estimates range between 10-30,000, descended on Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening, July 11, to noisily protest the Israeli far-right government’s ineffectual handling of the economic crisis caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, in particular the inadequate financial aid being offered to the unemployed, small business owners and independent professionals.…

Members of Hadash and the Communist Party of Israel demonstrate against the annexation and occupation of the Palestinian territories outside the Knesset, May 14, 2020. First from right is MK Ofer Cassif, whose Hadash sign reads "Opposing the Occupation."

Next Wed., July 15: Int’l Webinar on Annexation with MK Ofer Cassif

Liberation, one of the oldest human rights and anti-imperialist organizations in the UK has joined the campaign for Britain to oppose Israel’s pending annexation of large swathes of the occupied Palestinian West Bank, including the Jordan Valley. The Liberation‘s journal will be holding a Webinar under the title “Palestine: Uphold UN Resolutions, Oppose Annexation,” next Wednesday,…

Addameer Lawyer Salah Hamouri Conditionally Released by Court

Salah Hamouri, a lawyer for Adameer, the Palestinian Prisoner and Human Rights Association, was conditionally released from detention on Tuesday, July 8, by the Israeli Court of First Instance, after he had been arrested on June 30 in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. On July 1, Hamouri’s detention was extended for another seven days,…