Amnesty: Tourism Companies Driving Settlement Expansion Are Profiting from War Crimes

Online booking giants Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia and TripAdvisor are fueling human rights violations against Palestinians by listing hundreds of rooms and activities in Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land, including East Jerusalem, Amnesty International said yesterday (Tuesday). In a new report, “Destination: Occupation”, the organization documents how online booking companies are driving tourism to illegal…

"Hadash" (in Hebrew) an acronym that is that language's word for "new" and "al-Jabhah" (in Arabic), translated to English as "The Front"

Hadash to Select 6 Candidates for Elections to the 21st Knesset Friday

The electoral council of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash) will select the front’s first six candidates to run for the 21st Knesset this coming Friday, February 1, in a national convention to be held in Shefa-‘Amr (Shfar’am) in northern Israel. The 940 delegates to the Hadash Council, themselves elected in recent weeks…

President Maduro and Venezuelan army officers Sunday, January 27, during their country's Bicentenario de Angostura 2019 military maneuvers

Netanyahu Recognizes Venezuela’s Pro-US Usurper as Country’s President; Demonstration in Haifa

Israel’s far-right Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has joined the United States, Canada, and several Latin American and European states in granting diplomatic recognition to the self-declared, pro-imperialist leadership in Venezuela in place of recently reelected socialist President Nicolas Maduro. On Sunday, January 27, Netanyahu announced in a short statement that he is recognizing the opposition…

Objector to Occupation Freed from Prison, Receives Army Exemption

The Israeli army discharged conscientious objector Adam Rafaelov last Tuesday, January 22, after having imprisoned him for a total of 104 days for refusing to be inducted into military service because of his opposition to the occupation. Rafaelov, 18, from Kiryat Motzkin, near Haifa in northern Israel, was sentenced to prison eight times since July of…

President Nicolas Maduro during a debate held last Friday at the Venezuelan parliament

CPI Condemns Blatant US-Led Coup Attempt in Venezuela

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Israel issued the following statement on Friday, January 25, 2019. The Communist Party of Israel (CPI) strongly condemns the blatant intervention of US imperialism and its allies in the internal affairs of Venezuela with the aim of removing the elected President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro. It is…

USAID to End All Projects in West Bank and Gaza on January 31

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will end all its projects assisting refugees in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip on January 31st following the US administration’s decision to cut funding to the Palestinians. The decision has been confirmed by Dave Harden, former USAID Mission Director and Managing Director of…

Hadash MKs Ayman Odeh and Yousef Jabareen (respectively third and from right) during a demonstration against government inaction towards violence in the Arab-Palestinian community in Israel which took place in the city of Umm al-Fahm, January 19, 2019

MK Odeh: This Time, We Won’t Forget Netanyahu’s Incitement

Joint List lawmakers plan to commandeer far-right Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim in the last election that Arabs were heading to the polls “in droves” to encourage voters in April’s election. Netanyahu’s election-day message to mobilize his right-wing voter base became a defining moment of the 2015 election, drawing criticism and accusations of racism from…

Activists Pulled Off Bus for Protesting Racism at Hospital

Security guards at an Israeli hospital detained 10 Arab and Jewish activists Sunday, January 20, for an act of civil disobedience protesting a policy that singles out, removes, and inspects Palestinian-Arab citizens of Israel on a public bus line in southern Israel. The activists, mostly members of Hadash, from the grassroots protest movement Standing Together, were…

MK Jabareen Attends Conference on “Nation-State Law” at EU Parl.

The EuroPal Forum held a conference yesterday, Tuesday, January 22, on Israel’s “Nation-State Law” at the European Parliament in Brussels. The EuroPal Forum is an independent organization that advocates Palestinian rights. Parliamentarians, jurists and activists attended the EuroPal Forum conference which was hosted by Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Keith Taylor. MK Youssef Jabareen…

MK Khenin in a meeting with residents at the synagogue of Givat Amal, a working-class neighborhood in north Tel Aviv, January 17, 2019

MK Khenin Warns: Netanyahu Resolute Not to Go to Prison

“The ship of Israeli society is moving in a bad and very dangerous direction,” said MK Dov Khenin (Hadash–Joint List), a leading member of the Communist Party of Israel in an interview published on Monday January 21, by the Israeli news website The Times of Israel. The outgoing lawmaker insists he won’t despair and has…