May Day in Israel: Six demonstrations all over the country

  The worker’s international solidarity and struggle day, May Day, this year in Israel crosses ethnical, religious and national boundaries and unites workers from all over the country around the red flag. Demonstration will be held next Friday, April 30, in Tel-Aviv, both in West and East Jerusalem (in Palestinian Sheikh Jarrah), Haifa, Beer-Sheva and…

For a Broad Jewish-Arab Front against Fascisation

The Decisions of the 11th Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Israel   The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) warns against the worsening threats against the democratic space in Israel, and against the processes of Fascisation, and calls for a broad front in defense of democracy.  …

Discriminatory Haifa Municipal Budget

 

Communist-Hadash Faction Press Release

 

                                                                        30th December, 2009

 

 

Only 1.4% of the development budget of Haifa Municipality has been devoted to Arab neighbourhoods, the amount being 16,920,000 shekels out of an overall development budget of 1,167,920,000 shekels.  The Arab community constitutes approximately 11% of the Haifa population.

 

On Racism and Co-existence in Acre

From Communist Party of Israel

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On Racism and Co-existence in Acre

By Reem Hazan *

The recent incidents in Acre appeared to be spontaneous acts of racism and a threat to the "co-existence" between Arabs and Jews in the city. But that is only if we take seriously the idealist notion of "co-existence" that some said prevailed in Acre. If not, we are left with a reality where two peoples live in the same jurisdiction, but where the minority, the Arabs, are discriminated against in all areas – their rights, services, education and development.

The majority Jewish population also suffers poverty and unemployment but this majority sees the conflict against the backdrop of religion and takes it anger out on the Arab community rather than the state. It does not see the problem as a matter of methodical oppression.

 

Communist Khenin could force second round

 

From Communist Party of Israel
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Haaretz daily newspaper: Communist Khenin
could force second round in Tel-Aviv elections
 
 
"Two public opinion polls carried out during the past month by the Maagar Mochot research group are predicting a huge victory for Huldai, who is running on the One Tel Aviv list, a partnership between the Labor Party and Kadima. However, an analysis of the findings yields a clear trend indicating, in recent weeks, that Huldai has been losing a considerable degree of support and that Khenin, running on the list Ir Lekulanu (A City For All), is gaining strength.

"The first of these surveys was prepared for Huldai’s campaign headquarters at the end of September with a sampling of 515 city residents. The second survey was conducted for the weekly newspaper Zman Tel Aviv in mid-October with 543 respondents. In each of the surveys, the sampling error was 4.5 percent.

On the situation in the city of Acre

  From Communist Party of Israel www.maki.org.il / interelations@maki.org.il   On the situation in the city of Acre   By Hisham Nafa’   Many people have expressed surprise at the recent violence in Acre. Particularly amusing was the mantra that rolled off the tongues of government officials, their eyes wide open: "How could such a…

Israeli stars come out to shine in campaign clip for communist leader Dov Khenin

 

From Communist Party of Israel
www.maki.org.il / interelations@maki.org.il
 
Israeli stars come out to shine in campaign clip for
Communist leader Dov Khenin
 
The fall 2003 municipal election campaign in Tel Aviv was a sleepy one, with just 30 percent of eligible voters bothering to go to the polls. The mayor, Ron Huldai (Labour Party), easily won a second term in office. This summer seemed like it would be a repeat of the 2003 scenario – but then the communist Member of the Knesset Dov Khenin (Hadash- Democratic Peace and Equality Front) announced his candidacy for the mayoralty as the representative of the Ir Lekulanu (City for All) movement, won the support of about a dozen Israeli actors, and breathed life into the race.

 

Jewish-Arab rally held today at Acre

 

From Communist Party of Israel
 
Jewish-Arab rally held today at Acre
 
"I was here three days ago, in the middle of the night – a very hard and harsh visit" said Hadash Knesset Member and Tel Aviv mayoral candidate Dov Khenin, at the Jewish-Arab rally held by Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality) and the Communist Party of Israel this morning (Tuesday, October 14) at the Acre Esplanade. "I was here, in the [predominantly Arab-inhabited] Old City of Acre, and that was heart-warming. But I was on that night also in other parts of this city, in the Eastern Neighborhood, and that was frightening and disgusting. The police first did not let me go in there, they said it was ‘a closed area’. A ‘Closed Area’ – in fact, an area where mobs were rampaging in the streets, wildly hunting for Arabs to harm".