Photomontage released by Peace Now: Netanyahu: "Israel to the International Court in the Hague", Education Minister Naphtali Bennet: "Boycott Israel"

Israel Reducing Diplomatic Ties with Countries that Supported UNSC Resolution 2334

Israeli Primer Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly began on Sunday, December 26, the process of limiting diplomatic relations with countries that voted in favor of the resolution passed by the UN Security Council last week.against Israeli settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territories. According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Netanyahu ordered Israel’s Foreign Ministry to limit diplomatic…

A Breaking the Silence event in Tel-Aviv

Bennett Promotes Bill to Ban Anti- Occupation Group from Schools

Far-right Education Minister Naphtali Bennett is ratcheting up his fight against the anti-occupation group Breaking the Silence. Bennett is now promoting a bill that will forbid inviting representatives of the group, which collects and publishes critical testimonies from soldiers about serving in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, following the ignoring by three high school principals of…

Hadash MK Aida Touma-Sliman

MK Aida Touma-Sliman: “Israel’s Gov’t Wants the Arab Population to Pay the Price of Occupation”

Joint List MKs have reacted angrily to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call to increase the pace of enforcing demolition orders issued against homes built “without permits” by the Arab population. Hadash MK Aida Touma-Sliman has rejected any comparison between such building and the illegal construction in the occupied West Bank outpost of Amona, which is…

Construction worker in the Gaza Strip

Unemployment in Gaza Rose in Q3

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics published last week its employment figures for the third quarter of 2016, which paint a troubling picture of continually rising unemployment rates, and a stagnating economy. Gaza’s unemployment rose from 41.7% in the previous quarter to 43.2%, in the third quarter. Unemployment in the West Bank was much lower…

Israeli communists demonstrate in West Jerusalem against the occupation of the Palestinians territories.

Address of CPI Secretary General before the 18th Int’l Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties

The 18th International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties (IMCWP) was held in Hanoi, capital of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, on October 28-29, 2016 under the theme: “Capitalist Crisis and Imperialist Offensive – Strategy  and Tactics of the Communist and Workers’ Parties in the Struggle for Peace, Workers’ and Peoples’ Rights and Socialism.” The…