"Joint Struggle, Joint Future" – Election slogan for the Joint List

Joint List MK Yazbak Disqualified from Participating in the Elections

In a vote held on Wednesday, January 29, the Knesset’s Central Elections Committee officially disqualified Joint List MK Heba Yazbak (Balad) from running in the March 2 elections. The vote was 27 for the disqualification and 7 against. Almost all of the Knesset’s Zionist and Ultraorthodox lawmakers united behind the efforts to ban Yazbak, including the centrist…

MK Heba Yazbak voting in last September's election

Hadash, CPI Reject Barring of Joint List MK Heba Yazbak from Election

Likud MK Ophir Katz filed a request with the Knesset’s Central Elections Committee on Tuesday, January 21, to disqualify Balad MK Heba Yazbak (Joint List) from running in the March 2 general elections, just a day before the deadline for submitting such requests. Senior Blue & White lawmaker and former neo-liberal Ministry of Treasure, Yair Lapid, subsequently announced…

One of the two Israeli Communist demonstrators injured at Kafr Qaddum is evacuated by Palestinians, last Friday October 4.

Two Israeli Communists among Protestors Injured at Kafr Qaddum

Israeli occupation forces injured two Palestinians and two Communist Party of Israel (CPI) activists on Friday, October 4, during the weekly anti-settlements protest in the village of Kafr Qaddum in the northern occupied West Bank. Israeli soldiers attacked the protesters with rubber-coated bullets and chased some of them, during which the four demonstrators were injured. They…

Israeli peace activists, including past and soon-to-be resisters to induction into the military, participate in a phone conversation with Gaza's Great March of Return leader Ahmed Abu Artema at the Hagada Hasmalit, Tel Aviv, December 19, 2018

Leader of Gaza March to Young Israeli Army Resisters: “You are Strong in Your Principled Stance”

A few weeks ago, dozens of Israeli activists, including past and soon-to-be resisters of military induction, participated in a rare telephone meeting initiated by the “Messarvot” network with Ahmed Abu Artema, one of the main organizers behind Gaza’s “Great March of Return.” For many of the young conscientious objectors, the Great March of Return, and…