Joint List chairperson, MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash; back row center) with activists from the Young Communist League in Israel (Banki-Shabiba) during the opening festive session of the 9th Hadash Conference, April 7, 2017.

Hadash Condemns Gas Attack in Syria, Slams US Air Strikes

Over last weekend, April 7-8, the 9th Conference of Hadash (the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality) took place in Shefa-‘Amr, an Arab city in northern Israel. During his address before delegates and other participants, Hadash chairperson, former MK Mohammad Barakeh, condemned last Friday’s US air attack in Syria. Barakeh had reacted on his Facebook…

A demonstration against the gas deal in Tel-Aviv

Supreme Court Rejects Netanyahu-Backed Natural Gas Deal

Israel’s Supreme Court rejected Sunday afternoon, March 27, Israel’s natural gas legislation which had been sponsored, lobbied for, and signed by neo-liberal Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The judges rejected the “stability clause,” a sine quo non for the entire plan – thus torpedoing it altogether. The stability clause prohibited the government and Knesset from changing…

PM Netanyahu and American Nobel Energy CEO Charles Davidson

Economic Affairs Committee: Gas Deal Should Not Advance

A majority in the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee voted on Monday, December 14, against activating Article 52 – the contentious legal clause that would allow neo-liberal Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to move forward to privatize the country’s natural gas reserves. Although the committee’s recommendations are not legally binding, and as economy minister, Netanyahu can choose…

Demonstrators against gas deal, last Saturday, in Holon

Economic Affairs Committee Session Heats Up Over Gas Deal

A session of the Knesset’s Economic Affairs Committee held to discuss implementation of the outline for the country’s long-disputed privatized natural gas degenerated into shouting matches several times on Sunday, November 22, as Knesset members across the political spectrum and social activists disrupted each other when speaking. The session, the first in a series of…