Hadash Chairman, Mohammed Barakeh

Barakeh Elected Head of Higher Arab Monitoring Committee

Leading Communist Party of Israel (CPI) activist, Mohammed Barakeh, the former MK and head of the Hadash front, was elected chairman of Israel’s Higher Arab Monitoring Committee on Saturday. The committee, the leading Arab-Palestinian political body in Israel, is an independent political organization tasked with coordinating the political activities of all organizations of this community…

Jafar Farah, Director of Mossawa – The Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens in Israel

Joint List MK: Lieberman Doesn’t Miss an Opportunity to Incite against the Arab Community

Joint List leaders lashed back at Yisrael Beytenu’s racist chairman Avigdor Lieberman on Tuesday, September 1, after the latter expressed outrage at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to transfer a budget supplement of NIS 900 million to Arab municipalities. Despite support for the deal among the top Arab leadership, Arab representatives told The Jerusalem Post…

Hadash MK Ayman Odeh, Chairman of the Joint List

Arab Schools Back Down from Strike after Meeting with PM

A strike planned for local Arab authorities and educational institutions on Tuesday, September 1, was canceled after representatives of the Joint List met Monday with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. According to an agreement reached between the Joint List and Netanyahu, 600 million shekels ($153 million) will be gradually transferred as part of a five-year plan to local…

Hadash: Government Approves Racist, Anti-Bedouin Program

Israel’s government on Sunday approved the recommendations of Minister without portfolio Benny Begin to “change the program regulating Bedouin settlements in the Negev”. The reform is aimed at solving definitively the issue of Bedouin ownership claims on Negev lands and according to Hadash it’s a “provocative and racist anti-Bedouin program – the Prawer Plan” September…