Little Trump: Education Minister Threatens Universities’ Funding Over Student Nakba Events

Far-right Education Minister Yoav Kisch threatened on Tuesday, May 13, to revoke funding for Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) and Tel Aviv University (TAU) over Hadash and Arab student rallies commemorating the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” the Arabic term for the expulsion and exodus of some 700,000 Palestinians during 1948 War. Students at the Hebrew University…

MK Cassif: There’s a Fascist Atmosphere in Israel

Racist Otzma Yehudit MK Almog Cohen announced past week that he would begin collecting lawmakers’ signatures to initiate impeachment proceedings against Hadash MK Ofer Cassif, condemning what he described as the Communist legislator’s “vile and disgraceful comparison of the voluntary emigration program for Gaza residents to the voluntary emigration of Jews from Nazi Germany.” In November,…

Far-Right Government Attack on Hadash is Intensifying

The far-right government attack on Hadash is intensifying. After banning MK Ofer Cassif from Knesset proceedings for 6 months, the Israeli police has summoned Hadash Secretary General Amjad Shbita for questioning. The renowned Communist member of the Knesset has been suspended from parliament for six months after denouncing the brutal colonial war on Gaza, where more than…

Fascism in practice

The Israeli police decides to close down the headquarters of the Communist Party in Haifa Israel and Ben Gvir’s Police have just decided to shut the headquarters of the Communist Party in Haifa for ten hours starting at 19:00 this evening. Earlier, The police summoned comrade Reem Hazan for the second time this afternoon and…

Hadash MK Cassif: ‘They Want to Silence Us’

MK Ofer Cassif (Hadash) is being threatened with expulsion from Israel’s parliament after he signed a petition supporting South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, accusing it of acts of genocide. Cassif says the impeachment is based on an antidemocratic law that suppresses free speech. “They want me and my friends…