Nurses throughout Israel returned to work Tuesday morning, July 21, ending a one-day strike. The Nurses Union and the Finance Ministry reached an agreement at midnight on Monday to end a general strike that began earlier in the day over labor shortages at Israel’s medical centers. The agreement will see the addition of 2,000 temporary nursing…
The Likud’s racist Finance Minister Israel Katz ordered the freezing of a government assistance program for charities that help poor populations in need, following pressure from far-right activists who objected to the funds also being directed to organizations that aid refugees and asylum seekers, Haaretz reports. A total of 53 million shekels ($15.4 million) aid…
The Nurses’ Union launched a nationwide strike Monday, July 20, following the refusal of the government to meet their demands to fund as many as 2,000 new nursing positions. A day earlier, an inconclusive meeting intended to forestall the strike by nurses around the country was held between the head of the union, Ilana Cohen,…
Thousands took part in protests against far-right Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his neoliberal government’s confused and inconsistent response to the coronavirus throughout Israel Saturday evening, July 18, including the two largest demonstrations in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. In both cities, 4-figure protests initially began in areas designated by police but later spilled over into the…
A thousand protesters, among them activists from Hadash and the Communist Party of Israel, demonstrated outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official residence in Jerusalem on Friday, July 17, demanding that he resign over the indictments against him on charges of corruption and breach of trust. It was the third such demonstration during the week at the…
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the official residence of far-right Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Balfour Street in west Jerusalem, Thursday evening, July 16, calling on him to resign over the corruption charges which he is currently facing in court, just two days after some 50 persons were arrested there in a similar protest. Among Thursday’s…
A coordinated effort of MKs from the Joint List and Meretz to repeal the racist “Nation-State Law” by bringing three separate bills to a Knesset vote was defeated in Israel’s parliament on Wednesday, July 15. Following its passage two years ago by the previous far-right government’s coalition as a quasi-constitutional Basic Law, the legislation was heavily…
Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside of the official residence of Israel’s prime minister’s on Balfour Street in Jerusalem on Bastille Day, Tuesday, July 14, to protest the continued premiership of Benjamin Netanyahu. What began as a small and peaceful protest turned into a mass demonstration, as more and more people spontaneously joined the gathering which continued…
The Tel Aviv District Court ruled in favor on Monday, July 13, of Israel’s Ministry of Defense (MOD) and the commercial spyware company NSO Group in a lawsuit submitted by Amnesty International which demanded that the MOD revoke the export license of the cyber security powerhouse. In response to the court’s decision, Danna Ingleton, acting Co-Director…
The nationwide strike of Israel’s social workers entered its second week on Monday, July 13, a day after Shaul Meridor, Director of Budgets within the Finance Ministry, announced that the social workers’ demands to improve their working conditions are “irrelevant.” Meridor is a scion of a privileged right-wing, revisionist Zionism family, politically prominent from before the…
Many thousands of demonstrators, estimates range between 10-30,000, descended on Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening, July 11, to noisily protest the Israeli far-right government’s ineffectual handling of the economic crisis caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, in particular the inadequate financial aid being offered to the unemployed, small business owners and independent professionals.…
Yesh Din, an Israeli human rights NGO, has issued a detailed legal opinion stating that regardless of whether the state’s far-right government moves forward with its plans to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank, it is already upholding a system of apartheid in the occupied Palestinian territories. In recent months, Yesh Din’s legal…
Joint List MK Aida Touma-Sliman (Hadash) this week telephoned the owner of the Al Arz Tahini company and lauded her for the “brave decision to donate” to an LGBT rights organization. In recent days, Al Arz Tahini has faced both calls for a boycott against it and expressions of support from Arab-Palestinians citizens of Israel…
Liberation, one of the oldest human rights and anti-imperialist organizations in the UK has joined the campaign for Britain to oppose Israel’s pending annexation of large swathes of the occupied Palestinian West Bank, including the Jordan Valley. The Liberation‘s journal will be holding a Webinar under the title “Palestine: Uphold UN Resolutions, Oppose Annexation,” next Wednesday,…
Salah Hamouri, a lawyer for Adameer, the Palestinian Prisoner and Human Rights Association, was conditionally released from detention on Tuesday, July 8, by the Israeli Court of First Instance, after he had been arrested on June 30 in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. On July 1, Hamouri’s detention was extended for another seven days,…
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