“Supreme Court Judge Salim Joubran not singing the Hatikvah”

Extreme Right-Wing MK: Arabs Who Won’t Sing “Hatikva” Shouldn’t Be Judges

Two right-wing Knesset members were elected to the committee tasked with judicial appointments in a hard-fought early morning vote Thursday, July 23, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached an agreement with “opposition” racist MK Avigdor Liberman. MK Nurit Koren (Likud) and MK Robert Ilatov (Yisrael Beytenu) were elected to the powerful panel, after having received…

Ayman Odeh: “Joint List” is the Democratic Alternative to the Nationalist Camp led by Netanyahu and Herzog & Livni’s Zionist Camp

The Arab-Jewish front Hadash (the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality – Communist Party of Israel) has been a small fixture in the Israeli parliament for years. It usually won four or five of the 120 Knesset seats in elections, providing a fig leaf to Israeli democratic claims without being able to influence either internal…