Netanyahu Denies Entry to Palestinians for Joint Memorial Day Ceremony in Tel Aviv

Far-right Israeli Prime Minister and Defense Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has refused to allow Palestinians to enter Israel for an annual joint Israeli-Palestinian memorial service in Tel Aviv, scheduled for next Tuesday evening, May 7, Israel’s official Memorial Day. Since 2006, the joint ceremony organized by Combatants for Peace and The Parents Circle – Families Forum…

Case Dropped against Policemen Who Assaulted MK Ayman Odeh

According to the daily Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the Justice Ministry unit that investigates police misconduct has recommended that the files against the police officers involved in the January 2017 assault on Joint List Chairman, MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash) in the Arab-Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran be closed. The confrontation between the policemen and Odeh occurred…

Israeli police stand next to a vehicle that rammed into police officers in the Arab-Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev desert, January 18, 2017.

Nine Police Officers Questioned over Attack on MK Ayman Odeh

Nine police officers have been questioned under caution on suspicion they helped to cover up an alleged assault on a Hadash lawmaker during a deadly police operation at an unrecognized Arab-Bedouin community in January of this year. The officers, including a superintendent, were questioned Tuesday night, November 28, by the Justice Ministry’s Police Investigations Department…