Together against racist laws

  Following the “transfer exercise”: Jews and Arabs will demonstrate together in Tel Aviv on Saturday night against the descent into fascism   This Saturday night (Oct. 16) at 7 pm, a mass Jewish-Arab demonstration will be held in Tel Aviv under the banners “Together against racist laws” and “Against transfer and despair – marching…

Peace is possible, but not the Obama-Netanyahu way

Resolutions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Israel  “The key to success for any political negotiations is the will on the Israeli side to put an end to the occupation and to remove the settlements in order to enable the creation of a Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem, besides…

International Solidarity Day with Sheikh Jarrah struggle

For the past year there has been an ongoing struggle in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Palestinian East-Jerusalem, this struggle is growing and at the same time the Israeli police is trying to brake the struggle as much as they can.    So, as August brings with it the one year anniversary to the evictions of the G’awi…

Unprecedented police brutality at occupied East Jerusalem protest

Ten activists were detained and held for questioning over blocking roadways at a protest in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem yesterday, late Friday (July 9, 2010). The Palestinian district is the site of weekly demonstrations against the takeover of local residents’ homes by Israeli settlers. The demonstrations are frequently attended by Israeli…

Hebron: Rightists and settlers attacks Hadash MKs

A confrontation broke out today morning (Wednesday, June 23) between right-wing activists and Knesset members from Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality – Communist Party of Israel) who were touring the partially occupied Palestinian West Bank city of Hebron.   As soon as the lawmakers: Mohammad Barakeh, Afo Abgbarieh and Dov Khenin stepped off…

Dozens of professors joined 800 students in a protest march against settlers in Sheikh JarrahDozens of professors joined 800 students in a protest march against settlers in Sheikh Jarrah

Dozens of professors from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem today (Wednesday, May 26) joined some 800 students in a protest march from the university to the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. The crowd protested against the entrance of Jewish settlers into the neighborhood, and the eviction of Arab families from their homes. Among the…

Mohammad Barakeh: never again fascism and Nazism

  About two months after returning from a memorial ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Knesset Member Mohammad Barakeh and chairman of Hadash – the Democratic Front Peace and Equality – Communist Party of Israel for stressed Monday (April, 12) that the values of the Holocaust must be taught both in Jews and Arab schools.…