The demonstration last Saturday night, December 19, in front of the Likud headquarters in central Tel-Aviv

Thousands March in Tel Aviv against Right-Wing Provocations

3,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Tel Aviv Saturday night, December 19, to protest right-wing provocations against human rights and peace activists. Organizers gave the protest the title: “Standing together against a government that incites instead of offering solutions; against the far-right’s attempts to silence and intimidate, from inside the government and from without.”…

Hundreds of Arab students, Hadash and communists activists, and MKs mark "Nakba Day" at Tel Aviv University on Wednesday, May 20.

Hundreds Mark “Nakba Day” at Tel Aviv University

Hundreds of Arab students, Hadash and communists activists, and MKs marked “Nakba Day” at Tel Aviv University on Wednesday, May 20. The ceremony was attended by leader of the Joint List, MK Ayman Odeh, as well as by MKs Aida Touma-Sliman, Youssef Jabarin, and former Hadash MK Muhammad Barakeh. “We can argue about what happened…

Nakba Day celebrated at Tel Aviv University

Hundreds of students assembled at Tel Aviv University (TAU) on Monday to commemorate the Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic). The day marked the 65th anniversary of the State of Israel’s establishment in 1948, which coincided with the destruction of over 500 Palestinian villages and the creation of an estimated 750,000 refugees. Nakba commemorations were held this…

Thousand Professors Defend BGU Dept. vs. McCarthyist Allegations

Over one thousand faculty members of academic institutions all over Israel last week signed a petition protesting the Israeli Council of Higher Education’s subcommittee’s decision not to allow Ben-Gurion University’s Department of Politics and Government to register students beginning in the 2013-14 academic year. The decision, which still needs approval from the plenum, effectively closes the…

Occupation expands an academic college in West Bank settlement

  The “Judea and Samaria Council for Higher Education” in the occupied West Bank has decided on Tuesday to recognize the Ariel settlement’s college as a full-fledged university. The planning and budget committee of the Israel’s Council for Higher Education had recommended against the move. The decision was approved by 11 members of the committee,…

Tel Aviv University students: End Palestinians ‘administrative detention’

In a show of solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in administrative detention, several dozen students from Tel Aviv University held a demonstration on Monday afternoon. Dozens of  students, lecturers and university professors, among them Hadash and Communist Party activists, called for an end to the practice, which allows Israel to indefinitely detain security prisoners without charge…

A new McCarthyist campaign in Israel

“Im Tirtzu,” an organization that defines itself as “an extra-parliamentary movement that works to strengthen and advance the values of Zionism in Israel,” has embarked on a campaign calling on Tzavta theatre in Tel Aviv to boycott Arab-Palestinian and Israeli citizen artist and director, Muhammad Bakri. As part of this campaign, Im Tirtzu has asked…