Among the participants in Saturday night’s mass demonstration in Tel-Aviv, from left to right in the front line of march: MK Youssef Jabareen (Joint List-Hadash), MK Michal Rozin (Meretz), Meretz leader MK Zehava Galon, Joint List chairman MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash), and the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Israel, Adel Amer; in the second line, center, MK Dov Khenin (Joint List - Hadash) holds a sign aloft: “Building an opposition; building hope.”

Thousands in Tel-Aviv Protest New Racist Defense Minister Liberman

Thousands rallied in central Tel Aviv on Saturday night, May 28, to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s appointment of Israel Beytenu’s racist head, Avigdor Liberman, as Israel’s new defense minister in last week’s coalition shakeup. Carrying Red, Palestinian and Israeli flags, protesters marched towards the Tel Aviv Likud party headquarters on King George street chanting:…

Netanyahu Adds Racist to Gov’t; Saturday Night Demo in Tel-Aviv

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named one of Israel’s most racist politicians, Avigdor Liberman, as defense minister on Wednesday, May 25, solidifying his far-right parliamentary majority at the risk of antagonizing the international community and his own military – and clouding already slim hopes for a resumption of peace efforts and an end the occupation of…