President of the State of Israel, Reuven Rivlin and the US President, Barack Obama, during the funeral for former president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, on Friday morning, October 1

Joint List MKs Skip Peres Funeral

Knesset Members from the Joint List announced yesterday (Friday) morning that they would not be attending the state funeral for former president Shimon Peres, who died at the age of 93. “The memory of Peres among the Arab public is different from the narrative of the last few days, and I understand that complex messages…

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…

MK Hanin Zoabi

Joint List Backs MKs Zoabi and Touma-Sliman; Blasts Fascistic Attacks Hurled against Them

The Joint List parliamentary faction stood shoulder to shoulder behind its MKs Hanin Zoabi (Balad) and Aida Touma-Sliman (Hadash) on Wednesday, June 29, and blasted the “fascistic attacks” being hurled against the two women lawmakers. This followed the reported conversation the same day between Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit regarding…

Knesset Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women meeting about segregated maternity wards in hospitals

Joint List MKs Call on Health Ministry to Enforce Laws against Hospital Discrimination

“The law comes before patients’ preferences,” Knesset Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women chairperson MK Aida Touma-Sliman (Hadash – Joint List) said in a meeting about segregated maternity wards in hospitals. The meeting was called after Israel Radio reported last week that several hospitals acquiesce to mothers’ requests that they not be…