Protesters hold a sit-in during a protest against police brutality targeting Israelis of Ethiopian descent, Tel Aviv, July 3, 2016.

Hundreds of Ethiopian Israelis Protest Police Brutality and Discrimination in Tel Aviv

Hundreds of Israelis of Ethiopian descent staged a protest against police brutality in central Tel Aviv on Sunday, July 3.  Protesters were carrying signs reading “Violent cops should be jailed” and “Racist policy.” Some signs referred to Yosef Salamsa, an Ethiopian Israeli youth who committed suicide several months after having been abused by police officers.…

A British soldier guarding the fenced off Tel Aviv central bus station during a curfew imposed under martial law in 1947. Israel’s new Terror Law is based on imperialist British Mandatory emergency statutes in Palestine.

Knesset Enacts Totalitarian Terror Bill; Extends Racist “Citizenship and Entry into Israel” Provision

A broadly-inclusive, far-reaching law codifying the right-wing government’s attack on democracy was approved by a Knesset vote of 57-16 on Wednesday evening, June 15, following six years of negotiations and review by the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee. The bill, which applies only to Israel and not to the occupied Palestinian West Bank, will…

Among the participants in Saturday night’s mass demonstration in Tel-Aviv, from left to right in the front line of march: MK Youssef Jabareen (Joint List-Hadash), MK Michal Rozin (Meretz), Meretz leader MK Zehava Galon, Joint List chairman MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash), and the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Israel, Adel Amer; in the second line, center, MK Dov Khenin (Joint List - Hadash) holds a sign aloft: “Building an opposition; building hope.”

Thousands in Tel-Aviv Protest New Racist Defense Minister Liberman

Thousands rallied in central Tel Aviv on Saturday night, May 28, to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s appointment of Israel Beytenu’s racist head, Avigdor Liberman, as Israel’s new defense minister in last week’s coalition shakeup. Carrying Red, Palestinian and Israeli flags, protesters marched towards the Tel Aviv Likud party headquarters on King George street chanting:…

The Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the racist newcomer to the far-right Israeli government, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, address the press following last week’s coalition agreement.

Zionist Union, Yesh Atid Mostly OKed/Abstained From Racist Bills

The Zionist Union and Yesh Atid either supported or merely abstained from most of the votes on controversial bills submitted to the Knesset during the past year, the first year of Netanyahu’s far-right government, a Palestinian research institute has found. The Palestinian Forum for Israel Studies (MADAR) surveyed the Israeli opposition’s votes on various bills.…

Netanyahu Adds Racist to Gov’t; Saturday Night Demo in Tel-Aviv

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named one of Israel’s most racist politicians, Avigdor Liberman, as defense minister on Wednesday, May 25, solidifying his far-right parliamentary majority at the risk of antagonizing the international community and his own military – and clouding already slim hopes for a resumption of peace efforts and an end the occupation of…

A demonstration against racism, in front of "Super Yuda" supermarket on Sunday night, May 22

Border Police Assault Arab Super-Market Employee in Central T-A

Maysam Abu El-Quiam, an Arab employee of the supermarket “Super Yuda” located on the main thoroughfare of Ibn Gvirol Street, opposite Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square, was reportedly beaten by plainclothes Border Police officers on Sunday afternoon, May 22. According to several eyewitnesses, the motive behind the beating was the employee’s ethnicity. One of the eyewitnesses,…