Hadash: New oil standards are environmental risk

MK Dov Khenin (Hadash) blasted Energy and Water Minister Uzi Landau’s decision to authorize new oil and gas regulations. The regulations, which the ministry said will now require environmental certification for certain drillings, distinguish between “temporary drilling sites” and “commercial sites slated for production.” In Khenin’s opinion, however, the government should revamp the entire 1952…

Communists against neo-liberal reform of psychiatric care in Israel

Ministers in the social-economic cabinet approved proposals for a neo-liberal psychiatric reform on Tuesday. The cabinet, headed by Justice Minister Yaakov Ne’eman, authorized the completion of action on the controversial proposals, which were presented by Deputy Health Minister Ya’acov Litzman (Ultra-Orthodox party -United Torah Judaism). The reform, which was not sent to the Knesset, has…

Thousands mark May Day in Tel Aviv march

Amid talk of early elections and renewed summer social justice protests, demonstrators mark International Workers’ Day. Activists said Tuesday’s May Day rallies in Tel Aviv would be the first of many planned for the summer, as the social justice movement aims to make a comeback. Thousands activists from Hadash, the Communist Party of Israel, the…

A large May Day demonstration in Tel Aviv

Today, on Tuesday, May 1st, there will be a large May Day demonstration in Tel Aviv with participation of social activists, among them members of CPI, Hadash, and the Young Communist League of Israel, Jews and Arabs. The demonstration will begin with a march that will leave from Habima Square at 6:30 and which will…

UK food retailer boycotts settlement exports

The British Co-operative Group has become the first major European supermarket group to end trade with firms that export produce from settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. “The Guardian” reported, the retail and insurance giant has taken its boycott one step further by “no longer engaging with any supplier of produce known to be sourcing…

Thousands demonstrated in Nazareth and Haifa to celebrate Mayday

Thousands participated in the worker’s solidarity march in Nazareth on Saturday (April 28) and called for social justice, peace, and equality. Members of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) and activists in Hadash participated, amongst them Knesset members Dov Khenin, Mohammed Barakeh, Hannah Sweid, and Afu Agbaria Thousands participated in the worker’s solidarity march in…

More Palestinian prisoners join hunger strike

The number of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails has grown to 2,000, with more preparing to join the protest next week, according to human rights groups in the West Bank. The Israeli prison service is taking punitive measures against hunger strikers, including solitary confinement, the confiscation of personal belongings, transfers and denial…