AG Mulls Indicting Hadash Lawmaker for Assaulting Cop

The State Prosecutor’s Office has informed a representative of Hadash lawmaker Ofer Cassif that the attorney general is considering prosecuting him for “assaulting a policeman under aggravated circumstances,” subject to a hearing. The decision was made with the consent of State Prosecutor Amit Aisman. On last May, Cassif was attempting to reach a protest at…

Hadash Slams Anti-Democratic Law to Strip Arab-Palestinians of Citizenship

The Hadash-Ta’al parliamentary faction slams a just-passed law to “strip convicted terrorists of their citizenship or residency if they were paid by the Palestinian Authority.” The payment clause is widely understood to have tailored the bill to apply only to Arab-Palestinian terrorists and to exclude Jewish terrorists from scrutiny. MK Aida Touma-Sliman against “the anti-democratic…

Academia for Equality Protest to UNESCO: Ariel University is Not in the State of Israel

Academia for Equality, an Israeli left-wing organization with a membership of more than 700 university and college lecturers and professors, sent the following letter last week to the International Association of Universities, International Universities Bureau at UNESCO: “We are writing to you regarding the status of the institute known as ‘Ariel University’. This institute is…

MK Cassif: “Ben Gvir Law is Dangerous and Fascist”

The fascist Otzma Yehudit party said Thursday morning that it had reached an agreement with incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party on the key content to be featured in their yet-to-be-signed coalition deal, hours after Netanyahu formally notified President Isaac Herzog that he had succeeded in cobbling together what will be Israel’s most reactionary…