MK Dov Khenin during this past year’s May Day parade in Tel Aviv with the Hadash banner calling for "Equality" in Hebrew and Arabic

Knesset Drops MK Khenin’s Equality in Housing Bill

On Wednesday, December 23, the Knesset defeated a bill for equality in housing for Arabs, Ethiopians, Mizrahi and LGBTs. The bill proposed that, when selling or renting a property, apartment owners not be allowed to discriminate based of sexual orientation, gender, nationality, race, religion, country of origin, views, political affiliation, personal status, parenthood or disability.…

The demonstration last Saturday night, December 19, in front of the Likud headquarters in central Tel-Aviv

Thousands March in Tel Aviv against Right-Wing Provocations

3,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Tel Aviv Saturday night, December 19, to protest right-wing provocations against human rights and peace activists. Organizers gave the protest the title: “Standing together against a government that incites instead of offering solutions; against the far-right’s attempts to silence and intimidate, from inside the government and from without.”…

Dani Dayan, Israel’s designated ambassador to Brazil, whose appointment the South American giant refuses to accept

Diplomatic Crisis with Brazil: PT Government Rejects Appointment of Settler Leader as Ambassador

Israeli officials expressed concern on Friday, December 18, over a brewing diplomatic crisis with Brazil as the Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores – PT) government there has thus far refused to accept the appointment of Dani Dayan, a settler leader, as Israel’s ambassador to Brasilia. Dayan, the onetime chairman of Yesha (the Council of Settlements…

Right-Wing Coalition Indifferent to Construction Accidents

Hadash MK Dov Khenin (Joint List) criticized the right-wing and neo-liberal governmental coalition during a meeting of the Knesset’s Labor and Welfare Committee devoted to construction accidents. According to MK Khenin, “The picture is terrible. There are more accidents, more fatal accidents, more injuries, and more irresponsibility. There is less information and less supervision. Some…