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".