On Racism and Co-existence in Acre

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On Racism and Co-existence in Acre

By Reem Hazan *

The recent incidents in Acre appeared to be spontaneous acts of racism and a threat to the "co-existence" between Arabs and Jews in the city. But that is only if we take seriously the idealist notion of "co-existence" that some said prevailed in Acre. If not, we are left with a reality where two peoples live in the same jurisdiction, but where the minority, the Arabs, are discriminated against in all areas – their rights, services, education and development.

The majority Jewish population also suffers poverty and unemployment but this majority sees the conflict against the backdrop of religion and takes it anger out on the Arab community rather than the state. It does not see the problem as a matter of methodical oppression.

 

Communist Khenin could force second round

 

From Communist Party of Israel
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Haaretz daily newspaper: Communist Khenin
could force second round in Tel-Aviv elections
 
 
"Two public opinion polls carried out during the past month by the Maagar Mochot research group are predicting a huge victory for Huldai, who is running on the One Tel Aviv list, a partnership between the Labor Party and Kadima. However, an analysis of the findings yields a clear trend indicating, in recent weeks, that Huldai has been losing a considerable degree of support and that Khenin, running on the list Ir Lekulanu (A City For All), is gaining strength.

"The first of these surveys was prepared for Huldai’s campaign headquarters at the end of September with a sampling of 515 city residents. The second survey was conducted for the weekly newspaper Zman Tel Aviv in mid-October with 543 respondents. In each of the surveys, the sampling error was 4.5 percent.

On the situation in the city of Acre

  From Communist Party of Israel www.maki.org.il / interelations@maki.org.il   On the situation in the city of Acre   By Hisham Nafa’   Many people have expressed surprise at the recent violence in Acre. Particularly amusing was the mantra that rolled off the tongues of government officials, their eyes wide open: "How could such a…

Israel and the Current Capitalist Crisis

 

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Israel and the Current Capitalist Crisis
by Daniel Rosenberg *
The financial crisis does not skip over Israel. The country that has been integrating itself in global capitalist markets in the last decades is once again seeing the ugliest side of capitalism, as the stock markets have dropped over a stunning 10 percent since the beginning of the month and the GDP growth forecast for the next couple of years has been slashed.
The crisis finds the Israeli society in worse shape than it was during the last recession, that of 2000-2003: currently about a quarter of Israeli citizens live below the official poverty line, among whom the percentage of minority groups, such as Israeli Arabs and orthodox Jews, is extremely high. A large part of the Israeli poor population are defined as "working poor," meaning people who are employed and yet do not earn a minimum living wage, a phenomenon which is usually regarded as a symptom of the crumbling of the middle classes.

Israeli stars come out to shine in campaign clip for communist leader Dov Khenin

 

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Israeli stars come out to shine in campaign clip for
Communist leader Dov Khenin
 
The fall 2003 municipal election campaign in Tel Aviv was a sleepy one, with just 30 percent of eligible voters bothering to go to the polls. The mayor, Ron Huldai (Labour Party), easily won a second term in office. This summer seemed like it would be a repeat of the 2003 scenario – but then the communist Member of the Knesset Dov Khenin (Hadash- Democratic Peace and Equality Front) announced his candidacy for the mayoralty as the representative of the Ir Lekulanu (City for All) movement, won the support of about a dozen Israeli actors, and breathed life into the race.

 

Jewish-Arab rally held today at Acre

 

From Communist Party of Israel
 
Jewish-Arab rally held today at Acre
 
"I was here three days ago, in the middle of the night – a very hard and harsh visit" said Hadash Knesset Member and Tel Aviv mayoral candidate Dov Khenin, at the Jewish-Arab rally held by Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality) and the Communist Party of Israel this morning (Tuesday, October 14) at the Acre Esplanade. "I was here, in the [predominantly Arab-inhabited] Old City of Acre, and that was heart-warming. But I was on that night also in other parts of this city, in the Eastern Neighborhood, and that was frightening and disgusting. The police first did not let me go in there, they said it was ‘a closed area’. A ‘Closed Area’ – in fact, an area where mobs were rampaging in the streets, wildly hunting for Arabs to harm".


A demo against anti-Arab racism

 

 
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A demo against anti-Arab racism will
be held tomorrow at Akko
 
Tomorrow, Tuesday (October, 14) will be held at the Old City of Akko a demonstration against anti-Arab racism called by the Communist Party of Israel and Hadash (The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality).
 

“The violent clashes in Acre is a pogrom perpetrated by Rightists Jews”

 

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MK Mohammed Barakeh: "The violent clashes in the Israeli city of Acre is a pogrom perpetrated by Rightists Jews against Arab residents."

MK Mohammed Barakeh, on Thursday (October, 9) responded to violent clashes between Jews and Arabs in the Israeli northern city of Acre, calling the violence a "pogrom perpetrated by Jews against Arab residents. The police displayed helpless discrimination in its treatment of the assault on Arab residents,"

Hadash MK Khenin to run for Tel Aviv mayor

    Knesset Member Dov Khenin (Hadash, Democratic Front for Peace and Equality – Communist Party of Israel) announced today that he would be running for Tel Aviv mayor against current mayor, Ron Huldai (Labour Party).   Khenin will join the race on behalf of the "Ir Lekulanu" (A city for all of us) movement…

A tempest in a coffee cup – Article from “THE JERUSALEM POST”

 

Aryeh Dean Cohen, THE JERUSALEM POST
May, 22, 2008
History books don’t offer any clues as to whether Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels ever shared a latte or cappuccino. But it stands to reason that the authors of The Communist Manifesto would’ve been tremendously proud of Alon-Lee Green, a shift manager at the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf café on Tel Aviv’s Rehov Ibn Gvirol, whose battle for social justice has planted the seeds of a revolution in the Israeli workplace. After all, it was Green, a 20-year-old member of the Israeli Communist Party, who decided enough was enough, and that his fellow café workers needed to unite in a struggle that has resulted in an incredible victory over an international conglomerate and a sea change in conditions for Green, his Coffee Bean chain colleagues, and potentially thousands across the country.