Palestinian arrested for participating in anti-elections protest interrogated on social networking

Palestinian student involved in an Israeli-Palestinian protest campaign during the recent elections was arrested by the IDF in late January and released four days later without charges, causing activists to suspect that Israel is monitoring the Facebook activity of West Bank activists. Galib Ishtewi, a 21-year-old student from the Palestinian village of Kafr Qaddum east…

Jerusalem after-school staffers strike and gathered over salary cuts

Hundred educators and parents had gathered, among them MK Dov Khenin (Hadash), in Safra Square in Jerusalem on Sunday to demonstrate against the  Jerusalem Municipality with the slogan, “Cheapen the after-school activities, keep working conditions.” Jerusalem after-school activities were closed on Sunday afternoon as workers went on strike to protest against salary reductions and worsening…

Leading Communist Party member MK Barakeh again in court

MK Dov Khenin testified in defense of fellow Hadash chairman MK Muhammad Barakeh on Sunday in the trial against him over two separate alleged altercations, one during a 2005 demonstration in Bil’in (a Palestinian village in the occupied territories) and another in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square in 2006 against the war in Lebanon. The two…

Netanyahu suffers setback in Israel election

Rightwing and neo-liberal Israeli P. M. Benjamin Netanyahu, suffered a major setback in Israel’s general election on Tuesday as results gave the narrowest of victories for the rightwing-religious block and a surprisingly strong showing for a new centrist party formed last year, forcing the prime minister to say he will seek a “broad coalition to…

Hadash activists carrying red flags and red banners during the massive Israeli social protest, July 2011

On Hadash and the Israeli Elections

Today, on Tuesday January 22, Israelis vote. Latest poll number show 63% right-wing and extreme-right coalition support. It’s comprised of Likud, Yisrael Beiteinu, Habayit Hayehudi, Shas, and United Torah Judaism.  Pollsters asked respondents what issues matter most and socio-economic concerns by far ranked highest. Nearly half said they determine their choice. Likud and other right-wing…

Extreme right-wing march in Arab town

20 extreme right-wing activists, led by Baruch Marzel, Itamar Ben Gvir and MK Michael Ben Ari, candidates of the ultra-right-wing Otzma Leyisrael party, marched without incident on Tuesday morning in the Arab town of Musmus, southeast of Haifa in the Wadi Ara area. The procession, the latest in a series of similar provocations that the three have…