"What the army is doing there is murder, it is a massacre - the starvation of children," Odeh said, adding that "there is blindness of heart and there is blindness of conscience. I appeal to you to be a real opposition against this government and its crimes in Gaza. There is a position regarding October 7, but what the army is doing there is a crime, it is killing, it is murder, it is a massacre".
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Israeli left-wing MP Ayman Odeh expelled from the Knesset because he condemned the massacre in Gaza!
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Charlie Biton, Israeli Black Panthers founder and long-time Hadash MP, dies at 76
Biton founded the Israeli Black Panthers in 1971 in response to class and ethnic discrimination faced by Israelis of Middle Eastern and North African descent.
Sunday, February 4, 2024
McCarthy in the Knesset: Hadash deputy Ofer Cassif expelled from Israeli Parliament
The following day, the extreme-right, racist Minister of National Security of Israel, Itamar Ben Gvir, published on his social network a photo of comrade Ayman Odeh (Head of the Hadash-Ta'al coalition) with Khalida Jarrar (Palestinian PFLP parliamentarian), with a comment threatening the revocation of Comrade Todeh's mandate.
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Israel: Communist lawmaker Ofer Cassif faces possible expulsion from Knesset
Cassif announced on Sunday that he would be joining the lawsuit against
the war in Gaza in the Hague. More specifically, in his announcement, he claimed:
Saturday, December 9, 2023
Israeli police tries to prevent the National Convention of Hadash scheduled for December 16
Friday, November 17, 2023
Communist Party of Israel — Hadash: In response to an Israeli call "to drop a nuclear bomb on Gaza"
In a statement issued in response to the call to drop a nuclear bomb on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the head of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality, and former Knesset Member Issam Makhoul called on the international community and relevant international organizations to remove the threat of Israeli nuclear weapons from the Palestinian people and the peoples in the region, and oblige Israel to join the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)!
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Israel: Communist MP Aida Touma-Sliman sanctioned over statements against Gaza War
Aida Touma-Sliman and Ofer Cassif (Photo: Zo Haderech) |
The Touma-Sliman’s post read: “And they still insist: The ‘most moral army in the world’ does not harm innocents and does not attack hospitals!” That evening, the army spokesman issued an official statement saying that the military is not striking [Palestinian Hospital in Gaza Strip] Al-Shifa.” Touma-Sliman said her words were taken from “repeated Palestinian testimonies in the hospital” that she had given and subject to “the right of freedom of speech given to members of Knesset.”
Friday, November 10, 2023
Israel: Communist Party leading member Mohammad Barakeh detained after announcing anti-war protest
Sunday, October 22, 2023
Israelis and Palestinians should live in security and peace, says Hadash lawmaker Ofer Cassif
Saturday, October 7, 2023
Communist Party of Israel and Hadash: "Netanyahu's fascist government bears full responsibility for the dangerous escalation"
"The fascist right-wing government's crimes to perpetuate the occupation are leading to a regional war that must be stopped. Even in difficult days like this - we repeat and voice an unequivocal condemnation of any harm to innocent civilians, and call for their removal from the bloodshed. We send our condolences to all the families of the victims of the occupation, Arabs and Jews alike", the statement reads.
Friday, April 28, 2023
Israeli Police Forces raids Communist Party's premises in Nazareth
Comrades of Nazareth confronted the police forces and refused them access to the building. The Police did not possess any warrant, and called for backup, climbed walls, removed the Palestinian flag and the red flags, and confiscated them, all while arresting the secretary of the party in Nazareth.
Friday, August 12, 2022
Israel: Communists protested against new Gaza attack
Photo: Zo Haderech. |
At a protest in Haifa, Joint List chairman MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash) said: “A round [of fighting] brings another round, more killing and more resistance. The circle of horror needs to stop. We came out to protest together for the only way that will benefit both nations – real negotiations to end the occupation, founding a Palestinian state alongside Israel and a just peace.”
Friday, July 16, 2021
Muhammad Naffa, former General Secretary of the Israeli Communist Party, passes away
Comrade Naffa has spent his entire life on the path of struggle and activism, fighting against war and occupation, racial discrimination, against imperialism, colonialism and reactionism in all its shapes, and for the freedom and independence of his Palestinian people and for social justice in the country and the world.
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Israeli communists and leftists: STOP THE WAR IN GAZA
In Tel Aviv, under the slogan "Stop the fire", anti-war demonstrators gathered outside the headquarters of Likud party and demanded an immediate ceasefire. In Jerusalem, the protesters marched to Zion Square where police forces forcibly dispersed them and a young woman was arrested. Similar demonstrations took place in Haifa's Ben Gurion boulevard.
Monday, May 10, 2021
Hadash, Communist Party of Israel condemn attacks against Palestinians in East Jerusalem
Arab-Palestinians protested throughout the country on Saturday over the far-right government’s actions in Jerusalem, including its handling of violent clashes at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Friday and the pending eviction of dozens of Palestinians from the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
Monday, August 10, 2020
Netanyahu resign! Thousands of demonstrators attend anti-governmental rallies in Israel
Hadash and Communist Party of Israel activists participated in the demonstration at Jerusalem’s Paris Square. The Arabic and Hebrew banner reads, “We are the Revolution.” (Photo: Zu Haderech). |