Nationwide protests for Moshe Silman

  Solidarity protests were held throughout the country Saturday night in solidarity with the late Moshe Silman who set himself on fire last week during a social justice protest.  Silman succumbed to his wounds on Friday at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer where doctors were treating him for burns over the majority of his…

Bill on Kafr Qasim Massacre voted down

The Knesset voted Wednesday to reject a bill that would have required the government to accept moral, political and social responsibility for the Kafr Qasim (Kfar Kassem) massacre. The law, proposed by Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality – Communist Party of Israel) would also have required the government to fund an organization dedicated…

Mohammad Barakeh: never again fascism and Nazism

  About two months after returning from a memorial ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Knesset Member Mohammad Barakeh and chairman of Hadash – the Democratic Front Peace and Equality – Communist Party of Israel for stressed Monday (April, 12) that the values of the Holocaust must be taught both in Jews and Arab schools.…