Open letter to the Minister of Internal Security, Yitzhak Aharonowitz

  According to reports in the media, the Prime Minister has entrusted you with handling what is known as the “Fly-In,” i.e. hundreds of peace activists from abroad who are scheduled to land at Ben-Gurion Airport this Friday (8.7.11). You have been quoted as saying that you consider these people to be ‘law-breaking hooligans,’ without…

Palestinians in Israel jails start hunger strike

Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails start a hunger strike yesterday (Sunday) to protest the prison administration’s crackdown, the Palestinian prisoners’ society said. According to Al Ittihad daily newspaper, the society said prisoners were at risk since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the prison service to toughen conditions for Palestinian detainees.  “The party’s over” for…

A National Exercise in Scare Tactics

Prime Minister Netanyahu, Defense Minister Barak and the remainder of Israel’s cabinet members are running a scare campaign about what, supposedly, will befall Israel if the UN General Assembly votes in September in favor of recognition for a Palestinian State based on the 1967 borders. Foreign Minister Lieberman has even announced that the approval of such a resolution means no less than the annihilation of Israel.

Army officer indicted for vandalizing Palestinian vehicles

On 12 and 13 October, B’Tselem (The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories) documented eight vehicles owned by Palestinians that had been vandalized, apparently by soldiers, near Jenbah in the southern Hebron hills. The vehicles, which were used to transport Palestinian laborers wanting to enter Israel without permits, were abandoned when…

Occupation’s 44th year: A Doctor’s Visit to Gaza

From the Diary of a Doctor, Rafik Masalha, a volunteer with Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR): A Visit to the Gaza Strip, in February 2011. At the Erez Checkpoint, as I was standing in front of the concrete walls and the enormous iron doors that exemplify the severe blockade policy imposed on the people of…

On the 1967 Lines, Peace is Secure and Feasible

A rallying call for the June 4 demonstration in Tel Aviv against Netanyahu’s policy to perpetuate the occupation   The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) published an announcement on May 27, 2011 calling for all peace-seekers, Jews and Arabs, to attend the rally in Tel Aviv on June 4, and demonstrate…

The Communist Party of Israel condemned Israel’s deadly repression in the Golan Heights, Gaza, the West Bank and southern Lebanon

The Communist Party of Israel (CPI) condemned on Sunday Israel’s deadly repression in the Golan Heights, Gaza, the West Bank and southern Lebanon where Israeli forces had fired to disperse pro-Palestinian protests. As many as 16 were said killed by Israeli fire in incidents on the Syrian and Lebanese borders on Sunday, as Palestinians marked…

High Court Petition: Nakba Law Is Unconstitutional

In a petition filed to Israel’s High Court of Justice today last week by human rights groups, alumni of an Arab school in Haifa, parents, and a geography professor, the petitioners asked the court to announce that the “Nakba Law” is unconstitutional and should be annulled, as it violates a long list of constitutional rights,…

From the Fatah-Hamas Accord to UN Recognition of the Palestinian State

Statement of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) welcomes the accord initialed by representatives of the Fatah and Hamas movements, concerning the establishment of an interim unity government, and preparations for elections for the Presidency, the Parliament, and the Palestinian National Council within eight months. An accord between Fatah and Hamas…

Anti-boycott bill passes first Knesset reading

    Hadash MK says legislation aimed at punishing Israeli companies which do not sell to settlements violates freedom of expression. Bill allowing State to revoke citizenship of individuals convicted of terror, espionage offences also approved in first reading           The Knesset plenum on Monday (March 7, 2011) passed in first…