The General Secretary of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI), Adel Amer, met last weekend in Ramallah with the Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the State of Palestine, Maher Taha, and firmly condemned the escalation of interference and blackmail by the US against Venezuela. Amer said, “We reject the inadmissible declaration of…
Arab and Ethiopian women in Israel earn less than half of the national average salary and are the most disadvantaged groups in the country’s job market, according to a survey of minorities in the labor market released on Monday, February 18. Overall, women’s salaries are 59% of men’s salaries in Israel, the survey found. The…
Eleven unrecognized Arab-Bedouin villages in the Negev have no polling stations or public transportation and some of their thousands of residents will have to travel up to 50 kilometers to vote in the upcoming national elections on April 9. Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel sent a letter to Israeli…
A school in a West Bank settlement recently fired its Arab cleaning staff, all of them Israeli citizens, after parents threatened to shut down the school if the workers remained employed. Parents in the settlement of Karnei Shomron appealed last week to the head of the local council, Yigal Lahav, and threatened to invoke a…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a group of journalists on Tuesday, February 12, that “it would certainly help” his standing with certain far-right and settlers voters him if the Arab-Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in the occupied Palestinian territories were to be demolished before the April elections. Toward the end of a meeting with…
Recently reelected in second spot for the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash), MK Aida Touma-Sliman, 54, is among a not-so-large group of outgoing parliamentarians who are pretty much guaranteed a place in the next Knesset after the April 9 election. Although women’s issues are dear to her heart, she said to a Haaretz…
A Palestinian teenager, Hassan Nofal, 17, died on Tuesday, February 12, of the wounds he sustained when he was shot by Israeli forces last Friday, February 8, during the Great March of Return protests along the borderline area to the east of al-Bureij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, medical sources at the Shuhada…
Hadash MK Aida Touma-Sliman from the Joint List asserts that Ori Ansbacher, 19, from the settlement of Tekoa south of Jerusalem was murdered and raped last Thursday, February 7, out of purely criminal motives. “You have to call the crime by its name: The rape and murder of Ori Ansbacher is a crime based on…
Palestinian officials have confirmed that they rejected an invitation to attend the 2-day conference in Warsaw on the Middle East set to begin today (Wednesday, February 13) which was called by the United States. Secretary General of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee, Saeb Erekat, affirmed, “Regarding statements that we have been invited, we…
On his 15th birthday, November 16, 2014, Palestinian high school student Attiya Nabaheen had just returned home from school and was in the front yard of his family’s home in the Gaza Strip, when Israeli military forces shot him. Attiya was not armed and was not involved in any violence. As a result of the…
All four Hadash MKs and leading members of the Communist Party of Israel joined several hundred Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel on Friday, Febuary 8, to protest the impending demolition of 17 homes in the Arab city of Qalansawe in the “Southern Triangle” in the center of the country. A dozen homes have already…
Two young Palestinians were killed and 17 others were wounded by Israeli army gunfire on Friday, February 8, in the course of the weekly Great March of Return protests along the Gaza border with Israel. The events were reported by the three Palestinian Arabic dailies in their main front-page story on Saturday, February 9. Al-Ayyam…
The Spanish rail equipment manufacturer CAF (Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles) has announced that it will not participate in an Israeli tender to build a section of the railway in occupied East Jerusalem as such actions would make the company complicit in violations of international law. The management of the railway firm made this decision…
For the first time since 2010, the police have acknowledged that five foreign men working in Israel were victims of human trafficking for enslavement. The police have opened three criminal investigations against their employers, suspected of holding them in prison-like conditions and coercing them to work without compensation. All five men, who hail from Asian…
According to a new poll released by the Israel Democracy Institute, some 52% of the Israeli public (49.5% of the Jews and 66% of the Arabs who participated in the survey) believes that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should resign if Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit recommends that he be indicted for any of the alleged legal…
