"Admissions Committee Committee" at the performance "Sha'ar LeAdam" (Photo: Hani Soboh)

Hadash denounces approval of “Admissions Committee Law”

Member of Knesset Muhammad Barakeh, chairman of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash), strongly denounced Israel’s Supreme Court ruling, in which it upheld the “Admissions Committee law”, allowing rural towns in the Negev and Galilee to reject residency to Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, and other marginalized groups. In a press release, MK Dov…

Groups opposed to the drafting of Arab and Jewish youth into the Israel Defense Forces, including the Young Communist League of Israel, staged a protest rally in Nazareth on Saturday, April 12, 2014, in which male and female teens marched into Spring Square in the center of town dressed in military attire and carrying toy rifles (Photo: Tagreed Soliman)

IDF to send ‘voluntary draft notices’ to Christian Arabs

The Israel Defense Forces will send draft notices to Christian Palestinian-Arab, Israeli teenager citizens, over the next several weeks in an attempt to increase voluntary enlistment within the community.  Christian Arab citizens of Israel are not subject to compulsory military service. They can volunteer, but few do. According to an Army Radio report on the…

Arab construction workers in Tel-Aviv, Habima project (Photo: Moran Beth Halachmi)

Survey: Employers discriminate against Arabs

The findings of the study, commissioned by the Economy Ministry’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, show that 42 percent of employers “would prefer not to” hire Arab men, while 37% said they were disinclined to employ Haredi men. Prejudice levels against both Arab and ultra-Orthodox mothers of young children were high as well, though lower than…