Hundreds of Palestinians Denied Israeli Residency despite Interior Minister’s Previous Committment

Israel’s Interior Minister Arye Dery announced that nearly 450 Palestinians who were expected to receive residency status as part of the so-called “family unification” arrangement failed to meet the required criteria for naturalization. These Palestinians will receive neither permanent residency nor temporary residency status. This development follows a government commitment, made in response to an April…

Joint List chairperson, MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash; back row center) with activists from the Young Communist League in Israel (Banki-Shabiba) during the opening festive session of the 9th Hadash Conference, April 7, 2017.

Hadash Condemns Gas Attack in Syria, Slams US Air Strikes

Over last weekend, April 7-8, the 9th Conference of Hadash (the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality) took place in Shefa-‘Amr, an Arab city in northern Israel. During his address before delegates and other participants, Hadash chairperson, former MK Mohammad Barakeh, condemned last Friday’s US air attack in Syria. Barakeh had reacted on his Facebook…

Women demonstrate in Lod against femicide, Wednesday, April 5.

Demonstrators in Lod Protest against Killing of Women

Following the shooting death on Monday morning, April 2, of a 35 year-old Arab woman in the town of Rameh in northern Israel, a demonstration against femicide was held in Lod on Wednesday, April 5. The killing in Rameh was the third murder of a woman in the last week and sparked outrage from women’s-rights…

Far-Right Lawmakers to Push New Laws: Annexing Settlements and Muzzling Supreme Court

The feeling in the air of new elections coming, along with a firm right-wing majority in the Knesset, is leading far-right government coalition MKs to try to achieve everything they can when the Knesset returns from its Passover recess in six weeks. Coalition MKs will flood the house with controversial bills pushing the right’s agenda.…

Israel’s Minister of Defense, Avigdor Liberman

Liberman Thrashed by Hadash MKs over His Calls for “Transfer”

Hadash lawmakers slammed the country’s racist minister of defense, Avigdor Liberman, for calling for an “arrangement” by which many of the country’s Arab citizens would be given Palestinian instead of Israeli citizenship in a future peace deal. Joint List head MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash), one of several lawmakers named by Liberman in a missive the…

Demonstrators in Arara on Saturday, January 21. The sign to the left reads: “House demolitions and the killing of Arab civilians are crimes against humanity.” The sign in the center reads: “Bibi = Daesh; al-Kaeean = Humanity.”

10,000 Attend Wadi Ara Protest in Wake of Recent House Demolitions

Ten thousand people, Arabs and Jews, demonstrated in Wadi Ara in northern Israel Saturday afternoon, January 21, to protest two rounds of home demolitions in two Arab communities in the last two weeks, and the shooting to death by police of a Bedouin man whose car subsequently hit and killed an officer during a protest…

Leading CPI activist, MK Aida Touma-Sliman (Joint List - Hadash) sits among the ruins of one of the homes destroyed in Umm Al-Hiran, last Wednesday, January 18.

Umm Al-Hiran Won’t Stand Alone! CPI Calls for Mass Popular Actions

The Communist Party of Israel (CPI) and the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash) have issued a statement in which they assure that the Arab-Bedouin village of Umm Al-Hiran in the Negev will not stand alone in its struggle to resist being uprooted by the far right Israeli government. In their statement, the CPI…

Demonstrators in Ramallah’s Menara Square protesting on Thursday, January 19, against the incoming President Trump and his plans for the US embassy in Israel.

Tonight: Vigil Outside American Embassy; Demonstrations vs. Trump in Palestinian Territories

According to reports from the US, hundreds of thousands of persons converged on Washington D.C. on Friday, January 20, to participate in protests during the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States. In many other countries around the world, demonstrations and protests were also held by those who are unhappy…

Thousands Protest This Week’s Home Demolitions in Qalansawe

Thousands marched Friday afternoon, January 13, through the street of Qalansawe to protest the demolition of 11 homes in the city this week. Among the demonstrators were MKs from the Joint List, headed by Ayman Odeh (Hadash); Chairman of the Higher Monitoring Committee of the Arab Citizens in Israel, Mohammad Barakeh; Secretary General the Communist…

Sergeant Elor Azaria at the Military Court in Tel-Aviv

Touma-Suleiman: “Azaria Case: No Hope for Equality before the Law”

Last March, army medic Elor Azaria was filmed firing a bullet into the head of Abed al-Fattah al-Sharif, a 21-year-old Palestinian, as he lay wounded on the ground in the city of Hebron. On Wednesday, Azaria was found guilty of the reduced charge of manslaughter by a military tribunal. The three military judges ruled: “He…

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