Police Detain Former Councilman and Leading Hadash Activist at Protest in Kafr Yasif

Police detained Att. Shadi Shweiry, the former head of Kafr Yasif Regional Council and leading Hadash activist, on Saturday, January 24, at a local protest against violent crime in Arab communities. The protesters, several of them bereaved relatives of homicide victims, chanted, “stop the crime” and “our children’s blood isn’t cheap.” The police also detained…

Haifa Court Extends Detention of Hadash Secretariat Member

The Haifa Magistrate’s Court extended the detention of Hadash national secretariat member and leading Communist Youth activist, Ahmed Abbadi, on Friday, ordering that Abbadi remain in detention until at least Tuesday. Ahmed Abbadi during the last May Day parade held in Nazareth (Photo: Zo Haderekh) Abbadi was arrested on Thursday at the Qalandiya checkpoint in the occupied…

Hadash MK Ofer Cassif Meets Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn, the former British Labor Party leader who has since been elected as an independent MP, met last week in London with Hadash MK Ofer Cassif, a leading member of the Communist Party of Israel.  “A pleasure to see my friend Ofer Cassif today,” tweeted Corbyn, whose newly formed “Your Party” declared its “absolute opposition”…

Hadash MKs Praise New York Mayoral Elect Mamdani

Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, MK Yakov Margi (Shas) ordered MK Samir Bin Said of Hadash-Ta’al faction to leave the podium on Wednesday evening, November 5, after he praised Zohran Mamdani, the newly elected mayor of New York City. “Get off the podium, you insolent man,” Margi shouted. “A member of the Israeli Knesset stands…