Hadash Slams Decision to Include Arab Prisoners from Israel in Hamas Deal

Hadash and the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) slammed on Tuesday the decision to include Arab prisoners, citizens of Israel, in the exchange deal with Hamas, saying it “may serve dangerous procedures on the government’s part, such as revoking citizenship of citizens due to freedom of expression offenses, and may serve right-wing instigators against those detainees,…

Ben-Gvir’s Police are Arresting Innocent Arabs, Adalah

Leading Hadash member, Dr. Yousef Jabareen, a legal expert and former MK, said that “The continued wave of arrests being carried out by [National Security Minister Itamar] Ben-Gvir’s police over the past few weeks has been targeted against Arab youth, specifically students, and constitutes a system of intimidation and suppression.” The news site Kul al-Arab quoted Dr.…

Racist Protest Outside Netanya Dorm Housing Arab Students

A group of Jewish residents of Netanya staged a racist protest outside a college dorm in the city hosting Arab students on Saturday night, accusing them of disrupting a Shabbat prayer service earlier in the day. In the evening, several hundred Jewish protesters from the neighborhood gathered outside the Netanya Academic College’s dorms, many of…

Police Crackdown on Arab Leaders Protesting Racist Budget Cuts

Mayors of Arab-Palestinian communities in Israel demonstrated outside the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem Monday to protest Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s suspension of budgetary allocations earmarked for Arab municipalities. Hadash MKs Youssef Atawne, Aida Touma-Sliman and Ayman Odeh during the demonstration in front of the Knesset on Monday, rejecting the decision of Smotrich not to transfer…

Knesset Meeting on Arab Employment in High-Tech

​The Science and Technology Committee, chaired by MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash-Ta’al), and the Special Committee on Young Israelis, chaired by MK Naama Lazimi (Labor), held a joint meeting on Tuesday to discuss ways to increase the employment of Arab workers in the high-tech sector. MK Ayman Odeh during the meeting on ways to increase the…