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…

Police Blocks Arab-Jewish Anti-War March in Tel-Aviv

Police informed the organizers, the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, of an ant-war protest march set for today, Saturday, August 23, specifically against the Gaza war and starvation, that he rescinded approval for the march “due to an excess of events” on that day, despite it being previously approved. Tel Aviv police withdrew approval for the…