Protesters hold a sit-in during a protest against police brutality targeting Israelis of Ethiopian descent, Tel Aviv, July 3, 2016.

Hundreds of Ethiopian Israelis Protest Police Brutality and Discrimination in Tel Aviv

Hundreds of Israelis of Ethiopian descent staged a protest against police brutality in central Tel Aviv on Sunday, July 3.  Protesters were carrying signs reading “Violent cops should be jailed” and “Racist policy.” Some signs referred to Yosef Salamsa, an Ethiopian Israeli youth who committed suicide several months after having been abused by police officers.…

MK Hanin Zoabi and Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked in the Knesset plenum

Joint List Chairman Demands Attorney General Probe Liberman’s Inferring MK Zoabi is a “Terrorist”

Hadash MK Ayman Odeh, chairman of the Joint List parliamentary faction, wrote to Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on Thursday, June 30, and demanded that he open an investigation against Israel’s far-right Minister of Defense Avigdor Liberman on suspicion of incitement to violence after he called MK Hanin Zoabi (Joint List – Balad) “a terrorist.” “Yesterday, Minister…