400 Professors Demand Halt to Disciplinary Action against Hadash Activist

More than 400 Israeli university faculty are demanding that disciplinary action taken by Ben-Gurion University against a student who quoted the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish during a campus ceremony marking Nakba Day be reversed. The university’s disciplinary court convicted the student of disobeying campus authorities by using the word “shahid” (martyr) during the ceremony, but…

Opposition Heads to Meet on Tuesday Without Hadash-Ta’al

Outgoing coalition party chairs are scheduled to meet on Tuesday in preparation to sit in the opposition, as far-right Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu will be tasked today, Sunday, by President Isaac Herzog, to forming a government. Prime Minister Yair Lapid on past week with Israeli army officers (Photo: Lapid’s Facebook page) Herzog on Friday concluded…

Hadash Set Sights on Democratic Jewish Voters

Hadash-Ta’al joint list launched appeal calling on Israel’s democratic Jewish to support them with a “strategic vote” amid growing worries over a low projected turnout at the polls. According to internal surveys held in recent days, turnout is expected to range between 47 and 51 percent among Arab voters. In the last Knesset, turnout in…