Activists protest outside racist MK Regev’s home

Dozens of activists gather on Saturday on Likud MK’s Miri Regev doorstep, observe moment of silence in protest of her inciting and racist statements against African migrants and refugees. Some 25 of Regev’s and Likud supporters arrived on the scene, and responded to the silent protest by shouting abusive and more racist comments at the…

Hadash against Interior Minister’s racist statement

The African refugees in Israel should be rounded up in prisons or holding facilities and then deported from the country, Interior Minister Eli Yishai (Shas) said in a radio interview on Wednesday morning. “They should be put into holding cells or jails,” he said, “and then given a grant and sent back” to their countries of…

Five activists arrested at Tel-Aviv protest against ‘infiltrator law’; Kiryat Malachi: A rally against racism

Hundreds of demonstrators, among them Hadash activists and communists, gathered in central Tel Aviv Tuesday night, blocking a central thoroughfare for over an hour to protest the “Bill to Prevent Infiltration”, passed late Monday night in the Knesset. Police arrested five demonstrators. Chanting “no concentration camps” and “deport the interior minister” among other slogans, the…

Hadash protest slams Israeli government’s exploitative foreign worker policies

Protesters took to the streets of Tel Aviv yesterday (Monday, August 10, 2009) to demonstrate against Israel’s "revolving door policy" on migrant workers. The march, organized by Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality – Communist Party of Israel) Tel Aviv, drew hundred activists who held banners, and red flags, and handed out flyers in front of the offices of some of the country’s largest employment agencies on Rothschild Boulevard. "Foreign workers are not slaves!" yelled the protesters.