Fascists beat Haifa deputy mayor during anti-war protest

Haifa’s deputy mayor and his son were beaten Saturday night when right-wing activists attacked Hadash and Communists activists protesting Israel’s massacre in the Gaza Strip. According to “Haaretz” and “Al Ittihad”, the right-wing activists had gathered in the area, burned a Palestinian flag and shouted “Death to Arabs,” and “Death to leftists.” They asked a…

The demonstration in Haifa in the today's (Sunday, July 20) edition of "Al Ittihad" Communist daily newspaper front-page

Hadash demonstrators accused the government of war crimes; rightists called for ‘death to the Arabs’

Hundreds of Jews and Arabs, members of Hadash and the Communist Party of Israel” demonstrated in Mercaz Hacarmel, Haifa, on Saturday night against the Gaza operation, against racism and for a just peace between Israel and Palestine. They hoisted red banners and Palestinian flags. Hundreds of right-wingers staged a counter-protest, and hoisted Israeli flags and…

Israeli forces seen during a protest following the kidnapping and murder of a Palestinian teen, occupied East Jerusalem, July 2, 2014. (Photo: Activestills)

Clashes in East Jerusalem after murder of Palestinian teen; MK Khenin: A wave of hatred is washing over the land

Clashes between Palestinian youths and Israeli police broke out Wednesday morning when news broke of a suspected kidnapping and murder of a Palestinian teenager in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina hours earlier. Dozens of Palestinians were wounded in the clashes in East Jerusalem on Wednesday, with Ma’an reporting that 17 required hospitalization.…

Israeli soldiers enter the city of Halhul, near Hebron, in a search for the three kidnapped teenagers. (Photo: Activestills)

CPI condemns the killing of three Yeshiva students

The Communist Party of Israel (CPI) strongly condemns the abduction and killing of the three Yeshiva students, Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Sha’ar, and Eyal Yifrah. According to CPI “deliberate targeting of civilians undermines all moral, legal and human principles. The deliberate killing of civilians is defined as a grave breach of international humanitarian law, and cannot…

MK Barakeh during a demonstration in the Palestinian village of Bil'in in the occupied West Bank (Photo: Al Ittihad)

MK Mohammed Barakeh appeals assault conviction

On 8 June 2014, Adalah filed an appeal on behalf of Communist MK Mohammed Barakeh, chairman of Hadash to the Tel Aviv District Court against the Magistrate Court’s decision to convict him of assaulting a right-wing activist during a demonstration against the second war on Lebanon in 2006. MK Barakeh was convicted of this charge…

A demonstration in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners, Nablus, May 14 2014 (Photo: Activestills)

Communist Party of Israel: No to administrative detention

By the end of April 2014, more than 5,000 Palestinian prisoners (in fact POWs who are denied such status) were held in Israeli prisons. According to Addameer (Prisoner’s Support and Human Rights Association), approximately 190 of those POWs are under continued administrative detention, which is detention with no charge or trial. Some of them have…

Demonstration in Tel-Aviv against the occupation of the Palestinian territories (Photo: Al Ittihad)

Police order not to hold an anti-occupation protest in Tel-Aviv

MK Dov Khenin (Hadash) said Monday that he would deliberately disobey a police order not to hold an anti-occupation protest in Tel Aviv, next Saturday night, June 7. As a Knesset member, Khenin has immunity from arrest in such matters, but it was likely that other thousands protesters would also participate in the protest lead…