1,600 Palestinian prisoners to go on hunger strike

Over 1,600 detainees in Israeli jails are due to begin a hunger-strike on April 17, a Palestinian Authority official said Sunday. According to Ma’an News Agency, Issa Qaraqe, the Palestinian Authority prisoners’ affairs minister, added that factional division among the strikers is dangerous and called on detainees with different political allegiances to unite. Palestinian Prisoners…

Tel-Aviv film festival to center on social justice

Tel Aviv’s 14th Docaviv documentary film festival will focus on the anti-capitalist protest movements that have swept the world in the past year, by offering free entrance to screenings of films on activism and social protest, followed by talks and debates. Docaviv is the only film festival in Israel dedicated exclusively to documentary cinema and…

Hundreds of demonstrators rallied in Tel-Aviv, Nazareth, Sakhnin, Um el-Fahem and Taybe

Hundreds of demonstrators rallied in the cities of Tel Aviv, Nazareth, Sakhnin, Um el-Fahem and Taybe on Saturday, protesting against Israel’s skyrocketing cost of living and against the neo-liberal policy of the government. The demonstrators in Tel-Aviv blocking one of the city’s main streets, Iben Gvirol. Police officials said the protest “was illegal” and sent…

Arab-Bedouin and activists participate in a vigil to mark Land Day at the unrecognized village of Wadi el-Naam, March 30, 2012. Arab-Bedouin and activists participate in a vigil to mark Land Day at the unrecognized village of Wadi el-Naam, March 30, 2012. The placard in the foreground reads: "This is our land!"; the sign to the left says: "One voice - No to the Prawer Plan."

Prawer Plan Promotes Racial Discrimination against Bedouin

Human rights organizations Adalah and Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) formally submitted last week their reservations to the government’s legislative proposal to implement the Prawer Plan for Bedouin in the Unrecognized Villages in the Negev (the “Memorandum of Law to Regulate the Bedouin Settlement in the Negev – 2012″). The government established the…