MK Khenin: A terrorist attack on democracy

Opposition MKs protested raising the electoral threshold and limiting no-confidence votes as the Knesset Law, Constitution and Justice Committee continued debating electoral reform Monday. According to opposition MKs, the meeting should not have taken place during the Knesset’s recess, which ends in two weeks, and they managed to divert the discussion from the planned topic…

Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki of the Palestinian Authority (Left) and Nicolas Maduro, President of Venezuela (Photo: ABN)

Grenada and Haiti recognized the State of Palestine

Grenada and Haiti have officially recognized the State of Palestine in a ceremony held at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on Friday, Palestinian Authority Foreign Affairs Minister Riyad Al-Maliki said. Al-Malki signed separate agreements to establish diplomatic relations with his Grenadian and Haitian counterparts. The agreement means that the states will exchange…

Israeli volunteers during the olive harvest in the occupied West Bank (Photo: Rabbis for Human Rights)

The Palestinian olive harvest is on its way

Within less than a month the olive harvest will begin. Every year at this time Palestinian farmers from a number of villages across the occupied West Bank receive threats to their safety, are denied access to their land or have their olives stolen, their trees poisoned, or even cut down altogether. The olive harvest is one of the most important annual economic events in the West Bank. The actions of those who aim to prevent farmers from taking…

Demonstrator at the Anti-Prawer rally in Tel Aviv, September 2013 (Photo: Activestills)

Two years since Prawer Plan

by Dr. Thabet Abu Rass September 2013 marks two years since the Israeli government approved the Prawer Plan. The plan intends to uproot tens of thousands of Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel from their villages, to demolish their homes, and to confiscate an overwhelming majority of their lands. The government proposed this plan as a…

Hypocrisy- Netanyahu’s style

Israel’s media recently re-explored the memories and lessons of the October 1973 War, which broke out on Yom Kippur. Many conclude now, forty years later, that the war- which took the life of thousands of Israelis, Syrians and Egyptians- could have been averted if the Israeli government would have shown political wisdom and answered the…

An policeman pushes an Im Tirzu right wing protester as he tries to attack participants in an event commemorating the Palestinian Nakba in Tel Aviv university, May 14, 2012 (Photo: Activestills)

Court Allows Calling ‘Im Tirzu’ a Fascist Group

The Zionist extreme-right group Im Tirzu lost a court case against a group of leftist activists who opened a Facebook page called “Im Tirzu – A Fascist Movement.” Judge Raphael Ya’akobi of the Jerusalem District Court determined that some of Im Tirzu’s attributes bare certain similarities to fascism – thus allowing the activists to use both…

Israeli activists and African refugees protest in the center of Tel Aviv against the forced deportation of Sudanese asylum-seekers. February 28, 2013 (Photo: Activestills)

Israeli human rights organizations against the deportation of asylum-seekers

In response to reports of an agreement to deport asylum-seekers from Israel to Uganda, Israeli human rights organizations said they doubted the likelihood that the agreement will materialize. In a joint statement the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), Hotline for Migrant Workers, Physicians for Human Rights – Israel, A.S.A.F., Amnesty International Israel and Kav…