MK Odeh Urges Opposition to Work Together for Topple Netanyahu’s Far-Right Govt

Hadash-Ta’al chairman MK Ayman Odeh called on fellow opposition factions to join to topple Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government “as soon as possible.” Addressing lawmakers at faction meeting in the Knesset on Monday, October 20, Odeh says that the government has three aims during the current parliamentary session, “harming Palestinian people at the occupied…

MK Cassif on the Need for Palestinian Liberation

MK Ofer Cassif tells Jacobin that Palestinian liberation is indispensable to peace and justice for all people in the region. Past week, along with MK Ayman Odeh, a fellow member of Hadash, Cassif protested Trump’s address to the Knesset, holding up placards reading “Recognize Palestine.” Cassif and Odeh were both removed by parliamentary security. It was a…

MKs Odeh, Cassif Ousted from the Knesset at Trump Speech

Hadash MKs Ayman Odeh and Ofer Cassif were ousted on Monday afternoon, October 13, from the Knesset plenum during US President Donald Trump’s speech. During the speech, the MKs shouted “terrorist” at Trump and held up signs that read “Recognize Palestine”. “That was very efficient,” Trump said, as Cassif and Odeh were forcibly escorted out by Knesset…

Abbas Receives Israeli Peace Activists, Welcomes Ceasefire Agreement

President Mahmoud Abbas received on Thursday, October 9, Hadash MK Ayman Odeh and a Jewish-Arab delegation from Israeli peace movements at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah. The activists represented several organizations including Partnership for Peace, Hadash, Peace Now, Women Wage Peace, the Parents Circle – Families Forum, Combatants for Peace, Women Democratic Movement in Israel,…