Under the proposed legislation, taking or distributing photos like this would be a crime punishable by 5 or 10 years of imprisonment.

Government Plans to Jail Anyone Documenting Soldiers in Occupied West Bank or along Gaza Border

Israel’s far-right government and coalition is advancing an anti-democratic law that would ban the photographing or videoing of soldiers “carrying out their duties” in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Despite reservations by Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit, who considers the legislation problematic from a constitutional point of view, on Sunday, June 17, the Ministerial Committee for Legislation…

Standing Together demonstrators in Tel Aviv against the siege of Gaza and Israel’s brutal repression of Palestinian demonstrators in the coastal enclave, May 15, 2018

Tel Aviv University Tries to Bar Holding of Anti-Occupation Events

Tel Aviv University (TAU) announced on Monday, May 28, that it was barring student organizers from holding anti-occupation and pro-peace events on campus that had been scheduled for the same day on the pretext that it “retroactively discovered a problem with their permit application.” The TAU chapter of Standing Together had intended to sponsor a…

MK Jabareen (second from left) during a Supreme Court session

Supreme Court Upholds Anti- Democratic MK Expulsion Law

Nine Supreme Court justices unanimously rejected on Sunday, May 27, the petition submitted by MK Yousef Jabareen (Hadash – Joint List), Adalah and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) against Israel’s anti-democratic Expulsion Law. According to the law, which was passed in 2016, 90 members of the 120 seat Knesset can oust any…

Fascist Minister Lieberman: Outlaw Ayman Odeh & All Joint List MKs

Israel’s far-right Minister of Defense, Avigdor Lieberman, has renewed his attack on the leader of the Joint List, MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash), accusing him of being part of a “fifth column.” On Monday, Lieberman opened Yisrael Beiteinu’s Knesset faction meeting by speaking about the demonstrations which were deadly repressed by Israel along the border of…

Joint List Slams Minister Erdan for Incitement against MK Odeh

The Joint List announced on Monday, April 16, that it is weighing whether to lodge a complaint with the attorney general against the far-right Minister of Internal Security, Gilad Erdan, for incitement and endangering the life of Hadash MK Ayman Odeh, for remarks that Erdan made about the leader of the parliamentary bloc. In an…

Communist Students Condemn Bennett’s Proposed “Ethics Code”: It Undermines Academic Freedom

At the behest of far-right Education Minister Naftali Bennett, a subcommittee of the Council for Higher Education (CHE) adopted Sunday, March 25, a wide-ranging “code of ethics to put a high barrier between politics and academia.” However, Communist students, the heads of Israel’s universities and lecturers’ unions across the country have condemned it. The code…

Ahed Tamimi confronts an Israeli soldier in Nabi Saleh

No Justice under Occupation: Ahed Tamimi Sentenced to 8 Months

Ahed Tamimi, the teenager from Nabi Saleh arrested after a video of her attempting to push two armed Israeli soldiers off of her family’s porch went viral, signed a plea bargain in Israeli military court on Wednesday, March 21, according to which she is to serve eight months in prison, minus the three months time…

Condolences to the Masses of Brazil on the Murder of Marielle Franco

The Communist Party of Israel (CPI) sends its sincerest condolences to all progressive and democratic forces in Brazil on the murder of Rio de Janeiro city council member, Marielle Franco. The CPI is party to the grave concerns regarding the army’s involvement in the repression of the city’s residents, already suffering from poverty, crime and…

Ministry of Culture Denies Funding to Haifa Arabic-Language Theater

The Ministry of Culture has denied funding to an Arabic-language theater in Haifa that in 2015 staged a play about an Arab-Palestinian convicted of murdering an Israeli soldier. In a document submitted to the Supreme Court, the ministry’s Support Committee wrote that the al-Midan theater did not meet the criteria demanded of all theaters and…

"Free Ahed Tamimi and all imprisoned Palestinian minors"

Prison Service Rejects Request by Hadash MK to Visit Ahed Tamimi

The Israel Prison service has rejected a request by Hadash MK Youssef Jabareen (Joint List) to visit the detained teenage Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi. “It is my right as a member of the Knesset to visit Tamimi and examine the conditions of her imprisonment and her treatment,” said Jabareen, who was given no reason for…