The demonstration last Saturday night, December 19, in front of the Likud headquarters in central Tel-Aviv

Thousands March in Tel Aviv against Right-Wing Provocations

3,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Tel Aviv Saturday night, December 19, to protest right-wing provocations against human rights and peace activists. Organizers gave the protest the title: “Standing together against a government that incites instead of offering solutions; against the far-right’s attempts to silence and intimidate, from inside the government and from without.”…

Dani Dayan, Israel’s designated ambassador to Brazil, whose appointment the South American giant refuses to accept

Diplomatic Crisis with Brazil: PT Government Rejects Appointment of Settler Leader as Ambassador

Israeli officials expressed concern on Friday, December 18, over a brewing diplomatic crisis with Brazil as the Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores – PT) government there has thus far refused to accept the appointment of Dani Dayan, a settler leader, as Israel’s ambassador to Brasilia. Dayan, the onetime chairman of Yesha (the Council of Settlements…

Right-Wing Coalition Indifferent to Construction Accidents

Hadash MK Dov Khenin (Joint List) criticized the right-wing and neo-liberal governmental coalition during a meeting of the Knesset’s Labor and Welfare Committee devoted to construction accidents. According to MK Khenin, “The picture is terrible. There are more accidents, more fatal accidents, more injuries, and more irresponsibility. There is less information and less supervision. Some…

PM Netanyahu and American Nobel Energy CEO Charles Davidson

Economic Affairs Committee: Gas Deal Should Not Advance

A majority in the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee voted on Monday, December 14, against activating Article 52 – the contentious legal clause that would allow neo-liberal Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to move forward to privatize the country’s natural gas reserves. Although the committee’s recommendations are not legally binding, and as economy minister, Netanyahu can choose…

Police arrest an activist during a protest against the privatization of natural gas in Tel Aviv, November 7, 2015.

ACRI Petitions Supreme Court against Imposing Criminal Liability on Protest Organizers

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) petitioned the Supreme Court to order police to stop demanding that applicants who request licenses to conduct protests bear criminal responsibility for any violation by demonstrators. The petition was filed together with four activists who are involved in organizing protests against the gas privatization deal across Israel…