Demonstration in Tel-Aviv against the biometric database law (Photo: Nilly Oren)

Hadash moves to fight right-wing laws

Hadash MKs have presented bills in recent weeks in a bid to repeal laws that sharply curtail the civil rights of Israeli citizens, including the law that penalizes Israelis calling for a boycott of Israel or settlements in the Palestinian occupied territories. Hadash is also targeting the law that denies funding to groups that “undermine…

MK Barakeh during a demonstration against occupation in Tel-Aviv (Photo: Al Ittihad)

Court decision in MK Barakeh’s political trial on next Sunday

On Sunday 23 March 2014 at 10:30 am, the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court will issue its decision in the political case against leading Communist Party of Israel member, MK Mohammed Barakeh, the head of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash). The indictment against MK Barakeh, filed in 2009, included four different charges, in…

Hadash demonstration in Tel-Aviv, December 2011. The banner said: "Democracy we'll defend it, so that it will defend all of us." (Photo: Lisa Goldman)

ACRI opposes yet another anti-NGO bill

On Sunday March 2, 2014, the Ministerial Committee for Legislative affairs reviewed a bill tabled by extreme-right MK Miri Regev  (Likud) – an amendment to the Non-Profit Organizations Law under which the state will be able to prevent an organization’s registration if any of its objectives contradict the definition of “Israel as a Jewish and…