Uprooting (“Transfer”) Law Hits the Road

The Prawer Plan – Expulsion of Tens of Thousands of Arab Palestinian Bedouins in Al Naqab (the Negev) A Statement by the Communist Party of Israel The Prawer Plan, which has been cooking for years, has passed its first reading in the Knesset in June 2013 and is about to be realized in the near…

MK Khenin: Biometric database is bad news

After several delays, the Interior Ministry on Monday commenced the two-year pilot stage of Israel’s National Biometric Database Program. When completed, the database will include the biometric information – a face scan and fingerprints – of all Israeli citizens, accessible without court order to the police and security forces, including the army, the military police…

Who needs a war – keeps it simmering

After 46 years of occupation, the underlying realities are more than ever laid bare. It is now clear whose interests are served by the policy of perpetual occupation and ever-threatening wars. Since 1967, Prime Ministers and their cabinets continually strove to mobilize international support for their ongoing dragging of feet. Ever and again, they deliberately…

MK Khenin against capitalists over issue of exporting natural gas

Tensions stirred in the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee on Monday, as MK’s and gas industry capitalists sparred over the increasingly hot-button issue of exporting the country’s natural gas. The offshore Tamar reservoir is already flowing into the country’s transmission pipelines, with the 282 billion cubic meters found there dedicated to domestic use only. Tamar’s roughly…

50 ‘flotilla’ activists enter Palestinian territories

After hundreds of peace and anti-occupation activists blocked at European airports,124 detained in Israel and face deportation. But, dozens have managed to reach Palestinian Authority territories. The Israeli police arrested dozens, yesterday at Ben-Gurion Airport.     Salah Hawaja, one of the leaders of the solidarity activity, said that some 1,000 international activists were scheduled…