MK Khenin slams VAT increase and neo-liberal policy

MK Dov Henin (Hadash) criticized the Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s economic and social policy on Tuesday over reports that the government will make up for increased spending by increasing the VAT. “Instead of cutting where necessary, they’re cutting from welfare, housing, health and education,” he charged. “Instead of focusing on taxing the rich, they are…

New report: How Israeli governments drained social services

“Between Realization and Dehydration” – a comprehensive report published by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) – presents the processes and methods by which successive Israeli governments have cut back social services over the past three decades. Housing, education, heath, employment, welfare and more – all these were drained as Israel turned itself…

Hundreds attend social activist Moshe Silman’s funeral

Hundreds of people attended on Sunday the funeral of Moshe Silman, who succumbed Friday to his injuries from his self-immolation the previous Saturday night. He was buried in the Holon Cemetery, near his parents. Among those in attendance were social activists, some wearing shirts that said “Not nice,” a reference to Silman’s call for social…

Nationwide protests for Moshe Silman

  Solidarity protests were held throughout the country Saturday night in solidarity with the late Moshe Silman who set himself on fire last week during a social justice protest.  Silman succumbed to his wounds on Friday at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer where doctors were treating him for burns over the majority of his…

Occupation expands an academic college in West Bank settlement

  The “Judea and Samaria Council for Higher Education” in the occupied West Bank has decided on Tuesday to recognize the Ariel settlement’s college as a full-fledged university. The planning and budget committee of the Israel’s Council for Higher Education had recommended against the move. The decision was approved by 11 members of the committee,…

Hadash MK calls for legal action against racist MK Ben-Ari

Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein should press incitement charges against racist MK Michael Ben-Ari (National Union) for tearing a New Testament and throwing it in the trash MK Hanna Sweid (Hadash), said Wednesday. “This is hooliganism, bullying and an apocalyptic act of hatred that was baseless and unnecessary,” Sweid told The Jerusalem Post after Ben-Ari destroyed the…

MK Khenin: Public housing crisis a deliberate policy

MK Dov Khenin (Hadash) accused the neo-liberal government of deliberately underfunding public housing in a Knesset special session Tuesday. “Too many people in Israeli society are finding themselves in an extreme crisis regarding housing,” he said. “When there are so many cases, it becomes clear – this is not a mistake, but rather, a policy.”…