Far-Right Advance Bills to Block Arabs from Holding Local Office and to Shutter Public Broadcaster

Knesset approved in a preliminary reading on Wednesday, November 28, an amendment to a law that would make it easier to disqualify Arab candidates from running in municipal elections, while also creating a mechanism for impeachment after being elected. A citizen votes in the municipal elections in Jerusalem, February 27, 2024 (Photo: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)…

MK Tibi Accuses Ben-Gvir of Racism Over Ban on Visiting Palestinian Jailed Leader Barghouti

Lawyers’ lawmaker Ahmad Tibi (Hadash-Ta’al) accused on Wednesday, Sep 11, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir of “racist policies” during a court hearing due to his opposition to Tibi meeting with jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti. A portrait of Marwan Barghouti at a demonstration at Kafr ad-Dik (Photo: Wikimedia) Since 16 April 2023, MK Tibi has contacted National…

Racist Protest Outside Netanya Dorm Housing Arab Students

A group of Jewish residents of Netanya staged a racist protest outside a college dorm in the city hosting Arab students on Saturday night, accusing them of disrupting a Shabbat prayer service earlier in the day. In the evening, several hundred Jewish protesters from the neighborhood gathered outside the Netanya Academic College’s dorms, many of…

Police Crackdown on Arab Leaders Protesting Racist Budget Cuts

Mayors of Arab-Palestinian communities in Israel demonstrated outside the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem Monday to protest Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s suspension of budgetary allocations earmarked for Arab municipalities. Hadash MKs Youssef Atawne, Aida Touma-Sliman and Ayman Odeh during the demonstration in front of the Knesset on Monday, rejecting the decision of Smotrich not to transfer…

Knesset Okays ‘Sexual Terrorism’ Racist Law

The Knesset on Monday passed a far right-wing-backed law that makes “terrorist motivations” an aggravating factor in crimes of sexual harassment and sexual assault. Aggravating factors come into play during criminal sentencing and are a consideration that can push judges toward issuing a sentence closer to the legal maximum. Sponsored by a group of lawmakers led by…

Racists Chant ‘Death to Arabs’ as Settlers Rally in Jerusalem

Far-right Israeli government officials including racist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir joined tens of thousands of settlers participating in Thursday’s inflammatory “Flag March” in occupied East Jerusalem, an event at which police and demonstrators attacked Palestinians and journalists while chanting slogans including “death to Arabs” and “your village will be burned.” “Jews and Arabs against…

Hadash Slams Anti-Democratic Law to Strip Arab-Palestinians of Citizenship

The Hadash-Ta’al parliamentary faction slams a just-passed law to “strip convicted terrorists of their citizenship or residency if they were paid by the Palestinian Authority.” The payment clause is widely understood to have tailored the bill to apply only to Arab-Palestinian terrorists and to exclude Jewish terrorists from scrutiny. MK Aida Touma-Sliman against “the anti-democratic…