Women say "No to NATO" in London, 2010 (Photo: Notowar)

Joint Statement on 65 years of NATO: For Peace! No to NATO!

Ever since it was created, 65 years ago, NATO has been an imperialist political-military bloc, a key element in its strategy of domination and exploitation, and of confrontation with the then USSR and socialist countries. NATO is responsible for the unending arms race, and the USA and its allies are responsible for over two thirds…

MK Dov Khenin (Photo: Knesset Channel)

MK Khenin is the top Knesset member in “Social Index”

MK Dov Khenin (Hadash) is the most socially-minded and diligent lawmaker in the opposition, according to transparency and civic participation NGO The Social Guard’s “Social Index” for the Knesset’s winter session, released last Tuesday. The Social Guard ranked MKs according to how they voted on social issues. A vote is considered “social” if, according to…

Hassan Jabareen, lawyer and the general director and founder of Adalah, with MK Barakeh in court, Tel-Aviv, March 23, 2014 (Photo: Al Ittihad)

MK Barakeh on the verdict: “This was a political trial”

The Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court on Sunday convicted Hadash chairman and leading Communist Party member, MK Muhammad Barakeh for attacking a right-wing demonstrator during a protest eight years ago. The lawmaker was acquitted of the more serious charge of striking a soldier from an undercover unit during another demonstration against the West Bank security barrier…

MK Barakeh during a demonstration against occupation in Tel-Aviv (Photo: Al Ittihad)

Court decision in MK Barakeh’s political trial on next Sunday

On Sunday 23 March 2014 at 10:30 am, the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court will issue its decision in the political case against leading Communist Party of Israel member, MK Mohammed Barakeh, the head of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash). The indictment against MK Barakeh, filed in 2009, included four different charges, in…

Rally for public housing in Jerusalem, November 2011 (Photo: Activestills)

Hadash MKs demands public housing in national housing law

The Internal Affairs and Environment Committee will not pass Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s (Yesh Atid) National Housing law unless he adds a public housing component, committee Hadash MKs said on Monday. Hadash MKs hammered Lapid for not focusing enough on affordable and public housing in the law. “Affordable housing isn’t putting a family in a…

Ramez Jeraisy during a Hadash meeting in Nazareth with Hadash Chairman, MK Mohammad Barakeh and Hadash Secretary, Ayman Odeh (Photo: Al Ittihad)

Nazareth to get new mayoral elections on March

High Court President Asher Grunis and Judges Yitzhak Amit and Dafna Barak-Erez decided Tuesday that a revote will be held in the elections for the mayor of Nazareth in the Galilee, the most important Arab city in Israel. The High Court of Justice ordered a new mayoral election for Nazareth after the results of the…

Demonstration in Tel-Aviv for nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction free zone in the Middle East (Photo: Pax Christi)

Global petition for peace in the Middle East

A Global petition for peace in the Middle East was initiated by the Haifa Conference for a Nuclear Weapons and Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone in the Middle East held in Haifa, Israel on 5 and 6 December 2013: “To the President of the General Assembly of the United Nations and Secretary General Ban…