Clashes at Nakba Annual Memorial Ceremony in Tel Aviv University

Under heavy police presence, Hadash and Arab students hold, Wednesday, May 14, the annual Nakba memorial ceremony at Tel Aviv University’s Entin Square, as right-wing counter-protesters attempt to disrupt the rally with loud music and taunts from behind a police barricade. Hadash members of Knesset Aida Touma-Sliman, Ofer Cassif and Youssef Atawneh and Communist Party…

Police Deny Permit to Hold Annual Nakba Day March of Return

Police have refused Monday, April 28, to grant a permit for this year’s annual March of Return on Israel’s Independence Day, organized by Arab-Palestinians in Israel to commemorate the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” referring to the mass expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and villages during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that established the state. Each year,…

Nakba Day Event at Tel Aviv University

Hundreds of protesters carrying Palestinian flags held the Nakba Day rally at Tel Aviv University on Monday. Communist Party of Israel Secretary General Adel Amer and Hadash MK Ofer Cassif took part in the rally as well. The large crowd of Arab students and Jewish supporters, among them dozens of lecturers, waved Palestinian flags and…