From left to right: MKs Dov Khenin (Hadash), Michal Rozin (Meretz), Mossi Raz (Meretz), Aida Touma-Sliman (Hadash) and Ayman Odeh (Hadash) during the Saturday's night protest march in Tel Aviv; “This is the home of all of us.”

Thousands of Protesters March in Tel Aviv against “Nation-State” Bill

Seven thousand protesters marched through central Tel Aviv on Saturday night, July 14, to protest the controversial, government-sponsored “nation-state bill,” calling it racist and discriminatory. Under the banner “This is home for all of us,” public figures, MKs from Hadash and Meretz, and peace and social activists addressed the demonstration, in which participants marched from…

No Probe of Rabbi Who Called Jews to Avoid Christmas Tree

Israel’s state prosecutor will not open an investigation against a university rabbi for telling students to avoid the student union in a campus building because it had the “pagan” symbol of a Christmas tree inside. Rabbi Elad Dokow, of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, made the remarks last December. “The Christmas tree is a religious…

Minister of Security Gilad Erdan’s tweet in Hebrew on January 18, 2017, the day of the violent incident at the unrecognized village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev: “The terrorist sharply turned his wheel and quickly accelerated in order to run down a group of police officers."

Adalah Demands Criminal Investigation of Public Security Minister Erdan for Incitement

Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel – is demanding a criminal investigation into Israel’s Minister of Public Security, Gilad Erdan, for incitement to racism against Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel. Adalah Attorney, Nadeem Shehadeh, sent a letter to Israel’s Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit in response to a series of public statements…