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CPI : No to imperialism! No to ISIS!

The Communist Party of Israel strongly condemns the imperialist intervention lead by the U.S. in Iraq and Syria. We obviously agree that the barbaric atrocities and crimes that reactionary organizations like ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra and alike have been carrying out must be fought against and eliminated. Nevertheless, a struggle against those genocidal organizations and for…

Greetings to Sweden

Tel Aviv, 7.10.2014 Dear Sir, Madame, The Communist Party of Israel (CPI), Arabs and Jews alike, congratulate Mr. Stefan Löfven, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Sweden, on his appointment to Prime Minister and the formation of a new leftist government in Sweden. We are especially delighted and salute Mr. Löfven and the new…

"Admissions Committee Committee" at the performance "Sha'ar LeAdam" (Photo: Hani Soboh)

Hadash denounces approval of “Admissions Committee Law”

Member of Knesset Muhammad Barakeh, chairman of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash), strongly denounced Israel’s Supreme Court ruling, in which it upheld the “Admissions Committee law”, allowing rural towns in the Negev and Galilee to reject residency to Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, and other marginalized groups. In a press release, MK Dov…

Samih al-Qasim in the today's Al-Ittihad front-page

The great Arab-Palestinian poet Samih al-Qasim has died

The Communist Party of Israel and the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash) mourn the loss of the great poet, comrade Samih Al-Qasim. Arab-Palestinian poet Samih al-Qasim has died on Tuesday in the village of Rameh in the Galilee at the age of 75, after a long battle with cancer. Born in 1939, Al-Qasim was…

MK Dov Khenin speaks at an anti-war in Gaza demonstration in Jerusalem (Photo: Al Ittihad)

MK Dov Khenin blames Netanyahu for Gaza war

“I know it’s a terrible thing to say, but not a single drop of blood spilled in Gaza really brought us any closer to something better,” says Knesset member Dov Khenin from the Hadash Front (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality – Communist Party of Israel) in summarizing Israel’s Operation Protective Edge. Though a majority of Israelis…

Imad Asfour (Photo: Al Ittihad)

Palestinian Communist key figure murdered in Gaza

The Communist Party of Israel (CPI) and the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash) express their deep shock, grief and rage over the coldblooded murder of Palestinian People’s Party (PPP) comrade Imad Asfour by Israeli criminal military assault in Gaza Strip. Our friend comrade Asfour served as the Deputy Chairman of the Control Committee…

Thousands protest the Gaza war in Tel Aviv, July 26, 2014. (Photo: Activestills)

Thousands of Israelis protest the Gaza war in Tel-Aviv

Some 7,000 Israelis on Saturday evening protested the war in Gaza under the banner: “No more deaths – Israeli-Palestinian peace, now.” The protest took place in Rabin Square in central Tel Aviv. Slogans chanted by the protesters included “Stop the war,” “Bring the soldiers back home” and “Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies.” Speakers included…

Get Out! Stop the War Demo

Tonight in Tel-Aviv: Get Out! Stop the War Demo

Tonight, Saturday July 26 at 8 p.m. in Rabin Square in Tel-Aviv, well be held “Get Out! Stop the War Demo”. According to organizers: “On Saturday, the peace camp takes a stand at Rabin Square. The war is taking a heavy toll in lives and injuries on both sides, in destruction and horror, in bombings…