Protesters hold a sit-in during a protest against police brutality targeting Israelis of Ethiopian descent, Tel Aviv, July 3, 2016.

Hundreds of Ethiopian Israelis Protest Police Brutality and Discrimination in Tel Aviv

Hundreds of Israelis of Ethiopian descent staged a protest against police brutality in central Tel Aviv on Sunday, July 3.  Protesters were carrying signs reading “Violent cops should be jailed” and “Racist policy.” Some signs referred to Yosef Salamsa, an Ethiopian Israeli youth who committed suicide several months after having been abused by police officers.…

MK Dov Khenin during this past year’s May Day parade in Tel Aviv with the Hadash banner calling for "Equality" in Hebrew and Arabic

Knesset Drops MK Khenin’s Equality in Housing Bill

On Wednesday, December 23, the Knesset defeated a bill for equality in housing for Arabs, Ethiopians, Mizrahi and LGBTs. The bill proposed that, when selling or renting a property, apartment owners not be allowed to discriminate based of sexual orientation, gender, nationality, race, religion, country of origin, views, political affiliation, personal status, parenthood or disability.…

Ra'uf Hamdan, the father of Kheir Hamdan, murdered by the police in Kafr Kanna

Investigators Clear Cops in Fatal Shooting of Arab Man – Adalah: “Green Light” for Next Murder

The Police Investigations Unit (PID) on Tuesday, May 5, officially cleared officers of wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of Kheir Hamdan, a 22-year-old Palestinian-Arab Israeli citizen, last November in Kafr Kanna. Footage of the incident showed Hamdan approaching the police van and tapping on the window repeatedly with what the officers claimed appeared to be…

Jerusalem: Thousands protest against racism

Calling on the government of Israel to wake up and take a serious stand against racism, thousands of people marched through the streets of Jerusalem  Wednesday to protest what they believe is on-going and institutionalized discrimination against Israelis of Ethiopian descent. Some 5,000 protesters marched from the Knesset compound to Jerusalem’s Independence Park, where a…

Five activists arrested at Tel-Aviv protest against ‘infiltrator law’; Kiryat Malachi: A rally against racism

Hundreds of demonstrators, among them Hadash activists and communists, gathered in central Tel Aviv Tuesday night, blocking a central thoroughfare for over an hour to protest the “Bill to Prevent Infiltration”, passed late Monday night in the Knesset. Police arrested five demonstrators. Chanting “no concentration camps” and “deport the interior minister” among other slogans, the…