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…