MK Aida Touma-Sliman (Hadash) during a visit to the city of Lod with the Committee against Racism

Racist MK Smotrich Ousted from Knesset Meeting after Denouncing Interreligious Marriages

A heated debate took place on Monday afternoon, November 14, during a meeting of the Knesset Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality, after racist HaBayit HaYehudi (Jewish Home) lawmaker, Bezalel Smotrich spoke out against interreligious marriages and defended an Orthodox organization that had reportedly acted against mixed marriages between Jewish women and…

Joint List MK Dov Khenin (Hadash), right, shared a photo on Facebook of the lawmakers removed from the session, which included all the members present from Kulanu, the Zionist Union, Meretz, and the Joint List.

Ten MKs Booted Out of Knesset Meeting with Fascist Leader

Ten opposition lawmakers were ejected from a raucous Knesset committee meeting on Tuesday morning, November 10, after they protested the presence of the leader of the fascist Lehava group at the session. Bentzi Gopstein, who dubbed the lawmakers “terrorists” and “traitors,” was not asked to leave. The Knesset’s Internal Affairs Committee was meeting to discuss…

Israeli settlers at the Hebron Jewish settlement’s Purim costume parade on the city’s segregated Shuhada Street. Honenu attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir (Left), is wearing signs indicating that he is dressed as a hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner. February 24, 2013. A settler on the right is wearing a T-shirt of Kach, which is a designated terrorist group both in Israel and the United States.

Organization Providing Legal Services to Rightist Terrorists Receives Tax-Deductible Donations

Honenu, an organization that provides legal services to extreme-right terrorists and violent settlers, and which gives financial support to their families, receives tax-deductible donations recognized by both Israel and US tax authorities. Calling itself an “Israeli Zionist legal aid organization,” Honenu is based in Kiryat Arba, a Jewish settlement of 7,500 encroaching on and regularly…

Israeli extreme right-wing activist Benzi Gopstein, leader of the Lehava organization, takes part in a protest near the tram station in East Jerusalem, October 23, 2014. The sign reads: "Jews, Revenge."

Israeli Extreme-Right Leader Calls for Churches to Be Torched

On Thursday, August 6, Knesset members Aida Touma-Sliman (Hadash – Joint List) and Michal Biran (Zionist Union), heads of the Anti-Racist Lobby in the Knesset, requested that the Attorney General open a criminal investigation against Benzi Gopstein, the leader of the extreme-right group Lehava, who said in a meeting with rabbinical students that Christian houses of worship should…