Thousands of people arrived in Sakhnin Tuesday (March 30) to attend a ceremony marking the 34th anniversary of ‘Land Day’. The Higher Arab Monitoring Committee has planned another rally for the evening, to take place in the Negev. Participants waved red flags and Palestinian flags and called, “Barak, Barak, defense minister, how many children have…

Hundreds Israeli left activists and Palestinian residents protested in the Sheikh Jarrah Arab neighborhood of east Jerusalem on Friday (March 26, 2010). The demonstrators shouted: “There is nothing holy in an occupied city”, and protested against the entrance of Jewish residents to houses in the Arab neighborhood, as well as against the construction permit granted…

  Thousands gathered in Levinsky Park in southern Tel Aviv Saturday evening (March 20, 2010) to protest against the possible deportation of 1,200 children of foreign workers at the end of the current school year. Demonstrators, among them hundreds of Hadash (the Democratic Front of Peace and Equality – Communist Party of Israel), held signs…

   Tomorrow, Wednesday, 10 March 2010, at 10:00 a.m. the trial of Member of Knesset Mohammed Barakeh, and chairman of Hadash (the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality – Communist Party of Israel) will open. Adalah Attorneys Hassan Jabareen and Orna Kohn are representing MK Barakeh in this case. The Attorney General indicted MK Barakeh…

5,000 Jewish and Arab peace activists rallied East Jerusalem against settlers

Some 5,000 Jewish and Arab peace activists rallied tonight (Saturday, March 6), among them several members of Hadash (the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality – Communist Party of Israel) in the Palestinian Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem in order to protest against the settlement of Jews in the area and the evacuation of Arab families from their homes.