Palestinian Legislative Council member Khalida Jarrar

MK Touma-Sliman Meets PLC Member Khalida Jarrar – Demands Her Immediate Release

MK Aida Touma-Sliman (Hadash – Joint List) met Palestinian Legislative Council member Khalida Jarrar on Monday. May 25, at the “Hasharon” Prison Facility in Israel and demanded the immediate release of the Palestinian leader. According to Al-Ittihad, the daily Arabic-language newspaper of the Communist Party of Israel, Touma-Sliman and the Hadash parliamentary fraction continue to…

Drilling platform at the Tamar natural gas field

MK Khenin: Antitrust Commissioner’s Resignation – Victory for Gas Tycoons & Their Puppets in the Government

Antitrust Authority director general Prof. David Gilo yesterday, May 25, announced his resignation, after the cabinet approved an arrangement for the natural gas industry which Gilo regards as improper. Gilo said, “My decision is a result of a number of considerations, most importantly the report that the cabinet, particularly the Prime Minister’s Office, the Ministry…

Unionized Amdocs workers in front of the company premises in Sderot

“Ernst & Young” in Israel Unionizing; Histadrut Petitions Court on Amdocs Unionization Interference

In the past week, employees at Ernst & Young (Israel) – Kost, Forer, Gabbay & Kasierer – Israel’s largest accounting firm, have begun organizing a workers’ committee, while making grave allegations against the firm’s management concerning what they call low pay and poor working conditions. An anonymous e-mail message was sent to most of the firm’s…

MK Ayman Odeh during a Hadash meeting in the Galilee

Joint List Leader MK Ayman Odeh Meets Netanyahu

Two months after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his racist Election Day remarks that Arab voters were “voting in droves,” he met with Joint List leader MK Ayman Odeh on Thursday, May 21, to discuss plans for increasing government spending in the Arab-Palestinian community in Israel. Odeh, who heads the 13-seat Joint List that groups…

Hundreds of Arab students, Hadash and communists activists, and MKs mark "Nakba Day" at Tel Aviv University on Wednesday, May 20.

Hundreds Mark “Nakba Day” at Tel Aviv University

Hundreds of Arab students, Hadash and communists activists, and MKs marked “Nakba Day” at Tel Aviv University on Wednesday, May 20. The ceremony was attended by leader of the Joint List, MK Ayman Odeh, as well as by MKs Aida Touma-Sliman, Youssef Jabarin, and former Hadash MK Muhammad Barakeh. “We can argue about what happened…