Hundreds gathered in Tel Aviv to protest Israel’s Operation Protective Edge, despite a police decision to revoke the demonstration’s permit, Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, July 9, 2014 (Photo: Activestills)

Tel Aviv anti-war rally held despite police order

Ignoring police orders to call off the large-scale protest due to the continuing rocket fire in the south, hundreds of left-wing activists gathered in Rabin Square on Saturday demanding an end to Israel’s military actions in Gaza. Roughly 800 peace and Left activists flooded Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square in defiance of the ban, which was…

MK Dov Khenin speaks at an anti-war in Gaza demonstration in Jerusalem (Photo: Al Ittihad)

MK Dov Khenin blames Netanyahu for Gaza war

“I know it’s a terrible thing to say, but not a single drop of blood spilled in Gaza really brought us any closer to something better,” says Knesset member Dov Khenin from the Hadash Front (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality – Communist Party of Israel) in summarizing Israel’s Operation Protective Edge. Though a majority of Israelis…

Fidel Castro (Photo: Granma)

Fidel Castro again slams Israel’s deadly Gaza offensive

A new and repulsive kind of fascism is surfacing strongly in this moment of human history, as over seven billion people strive after their own survival, wrote Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro in his reflection article published on Monday under the title “Palestinian Holocaust in Gaza.” Castro recalls facts and details published by the media…

Imad Asfour (Photo: Al Ittihad)

Palestinian Communist key figure murdered in Gaza

The Communist Party of Israel (CPI) and the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash) express their deep shock, grief and rage over the coldblooded murder of Palestinian People’s Party (PPP) comrade Imad Asfour by Israeli criminal military assault in Gaza Strip. Our friend comrade Asfour served as the Deputy Chairman of the Control Committee…

A demonstration in solidarity with the Palestinian people, last week, in Buenos Aires (Photo: CTA)

Belgium advises to label products from settlements; Latin America urges peace

Belgium advised retailers on Tuesday to clearly label the origin of products made in Israeli settlements that are in occupied territories where Palestinians seek statehood. The non-binding recommendation has nothing to do with escalating conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, the Belgian Economics Ministry said, noting that Britain and Denmark already…