"There is a very intense attack on the democratic sphere we have in Israel," MK Dov Khenin from Hadash told i24 News during an exclusive interview Sunday

MK Khenin warns against passage of anti-NGO bill

The anti-democratic and fascist NGO bill aimed at curtailing the activities of “anti-Israeli groups” in Israel passed a major hurdle on Sunday after being approved by the Ministerial Committee on Legislation. However, the bill still faces considerable opposition on several fronts. The bill, sponsored by MK Ayelet Shaked (Habayit Hayehudi) and Robert Ilatov (Likud-Beytenu), would force any…

The A Bruenn JR shop in Berlin was vandalized by Nazis and its front wall was inscribed with anti-Semitic graffiti during Kristallnacht (Photo: Archive)

MK Dov Khenin remembers Kristallnacht

On Sunday, the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Center in Jerusalem commemorated the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, “the night of broken glass,” when Nazi-fascists swept through Jewish towns and neighborhoods throughout Germany burning homes and synagogues, destroying shops, and attacking Jews. Some 500 Jews were killed in the attacks. Over 30,000 were arrested and sent to…

"The people demands public housing" (Photo: Activestills)

MK Khenin criticizes Public-Housing Act

MK Dov Khenin (Hadash), chairman of the lobby of the right to housing in the Knesset, strongly attacked the approval of the public-housing act that would expand and extend the activities of the National Housing Committees. “Instead of analyzing the failure which is reflected by the lack of approved residential apartments and a complete absence…

MK Khenin: A terrorist attack on democracy

Opposition MKs protested raising the electoral threshold and limiting no-confidence votes as the Knesset Law, Constitution and Justice Committee continued debating electoral reform Monday. According to opposition MKs, the meeting should not have taken place during the Knesset’s recess, which ends in two weeks, and they managed to divert the discussion from the planned topic…

MK Khenin: Why privatization is doomed to failure

There are those who believe that everything that’s privatized is more efficient and everything run by the government necessarily falls short. Haaretz’s Nehemia Shtrasler champions this approach. I believe that this is a myth, but this doesn’t mean that I support the opposite myth, either. I know that government-run systems are liable to be bureaucratic…