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Chasing a Mirage: How Israel Arab Parties Validate Israeli Apartheid
By Ramzy Baroud Regardless of the outcome of the latest Israeli elections, Arab parties will not reap meaningful political benefits, even if they collectively achieve their highest representation ever. The reason is not about […]

Palestinian-Led Parties Agree to Run as Joint List in Upcoming Israeli Election
Three Palestinian-led parties competing in the November 1 Israeli election have reached an agreement on reuniting as the Joint List, the Middle East Monitor reported. Hadash, Balad and Ta’al, the three main Arab parties, reached […]

Israeli Islamic Party Freezes Membership in Israeli Coalition Government
The southern Israeli Islamic party, Ra’am, decided on Sunday to freeze its membership in Israel’s coalition government in protest against Israeli aggression against Al Aqsa Mosque, the Middle East Monitor reported. This decision followed immense […]

Joint List Leader, Ayman Odeh, to Be Probed for ‘Assaulting’ Far-Right Israeli Lawmaker
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Joint List leader Ayman Odeh is expected to be investigated by Israeli police for allegedly assaulting a far-right lawmaker in October, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. The incident occurred outside […]

Joint List MK Files Complaint over Israeli Police Violence (VIDEO)
The sole Jewish member of the Israeli-Palestinian-dominated Joint List alliance has filed a complaint against Israeli police after he was allegedly beaten by officers during a protest in East Jerusalem on Friday. Ofer Cassif described […]

Kafkaesque Politics: The Missing Lessons from Israel’s Latest Elections
By Ramzy Baroud A ‘major setback’ was the recurring term in many news headlines reporting on the outcome of Israel’s general elections of March 23. While this depiction specifically referred to Israeli Prime Minister […]

Reports: Netanyahu Starts Contacts with Arab MK to Form Coalition Government
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has started contacts with Arab Israeli MK Mansour Abbas, head of the Islamic Movement’s southern branch, to form a new coalition government, Israeli media reported on Friday. “There is no […]

Ready to Work with Netanyahu: Mansour Abbas Splinters Arab Vote in Israel
By Ramzy Baroud At a glance, it may appear that the split of Arab political parties in Israel is consistent with a typical pattern of political and ideological divisions which have afflicted the Arab […]

Thousands of Palestinians Rally in Tamra against Israeli Police Complicity in Crime Wave
Thousands of Palestinian protesters took part in a central rally today in the city of Tamra, in the district of Acre, to express their resentment over Israeli police complicity in the ongoing crime wave and […]

Unknown Assailants Shoot, Seriously Wound Former Arab Mayor in Israel
Unknown armed assailants on Thursday shot and seriously wounded Suleiman Ghebareyyeh, former mayor of Umm Al-Fahm, a major Arab city in central Israel. Ghebareyyeh was not only the former mayor of an Arab city but […]

Report: Netanyahu Canvasses for Arab Votes in Election Campaign
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been canvassing Arab citizens in Israel for their votes in the upcoming general election, Quds Press reported on Sunday. Netanyahu is also the leader of the Likud Party. According […]

Escalating the Demographic War: The Strategic Goal of Israeli Racism in Palestine
By Ramzy Baroud The discussion on institutional Israeli racism against its own Palestinian Arab population has all but ceased following the final approval of the discriminatory Nation-State Law in July 2018. Indeed, the latest […]

Israeli Knesset Approves Israel Deal with UAE
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israeli parliamentarians on Thursday that the Israeli normalization deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has “no secret annexes or hidden clauses” before the Knesset overwhelmingly approved the deal, […]

Israeli Knesset Rejects Amendment to Guarantee Equality in Nation-State Law
Israeli Knesset yesterday rejected an amendment to the racist Nation-State Law to include a clause guaranteeing the equality of all citizens, Arab48 reported. The bill, which was proposed by the Yesh Atid-Telem party, saw the […]

Arab Local Councils in Israel Go on General Strike to Protest against Inequality
Arab local councils in Israel went today on a general strike in protest against the failure of the Israeli government to respond to their demands to compensate them for the great losses suffered in light […]

Hating Arabs as a Common Ground: Why Israel’s Coalition Government is Likely to Survive
By Ramzy Baroud Shortly after an agreement to form a “national emergency government” in Israel, leader of the Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) party, Benny Gantz, tweeted triumphantly that ‘democracy’ in Israel has been ‘safeguarded’. But […]

Gantz Vows to Form Government ‘within a few Days’ amid Coronavirus Pandemic
Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz has called for a unity coalition, vowing to form a government “within a few days” after President Reuven Rivlin officially appointed the leader to establish the next government amid a […]

Israel: Joint List MKs to Meet Blue and White Delegation today
The first meeting between MKs belonging to the Joint List and the Blue and White bloc due to take place yesterday has been postponed until today, Arab48 reported. The news site quoted Arab MK Mansour […]

Israeli FM Katz: Arab MKs are ‘Terrorists Wearing Suits’
Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz described Israeli Arab members of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) as “terrorists wearing suits”. Speaking to Israeli radio station Makan about the possibility that the Joint List – an Arab dominated bloc […]

Arab Coalition in Israel May Claim Largest Election Win Yet
By Palestine Chronicle Staff With some 90 percent of the votes in Israel’s general elections counted, Israel’s Arab parties seem poised to claim their largest ever representation in the Israeli parliament. The Joint List […]

Israeli President Rivlin does not Want Coalition Government with Arabs
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has asked the head of the Blue and White Party, Benny Gantz, not to form a government backed by the Arab-majority parties, Kan reported yesterday. According to the Israeli broadcaster, Rivlin extended […]

Lieberman: Arab MKs are Fifth Column
Head of Yisrael Beiteinu Avigdor Lieberman on Wednesday described Arab Israeli members of the Knesset as the fifth column with whom he will not join a coalition government, Safa news agency reported. Speaking to Israeli radio, […]

Netanyahu: Relying on Arab Joint List Endangers Israeli Security
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that establishing an Israeli government relying on Arab joint list endangers Israel’s security. Netanyahu wrote on his Facebook page that the leader of Kahol Lavan (Blue and White) […]

Joint List Boycotts First Knesset Session and Joins Strike over Police Neglect
The Palestinian community in Israel is holding a general strike today in an effort to protest against the growing violence within the community and the neglect of the Israeli police towards it, with the Joint […]

Netanyahu’s Likud Gains Additional Seat but Israel’s Deadlock Remains
Israel‘s election committee published final results from last week’s election on Wednesday that gave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud an additional seat. Despite the gain, however, the country’s political deadlock remains. The final results from […]

Arab Parties Endorse Gantz to Remove Netanyahu (VIDEO)
Israel‘s main Arab political parties endorsed ex-military chief Benny Gantz for prime minister, breaking a nearly 27-year-long standard of not endorsing a candidate in the hope of removing current leader Benjamin Netanyahu. The leader of the […]

Facebook Suspends Netanyahu’s Page over Hate Speech
Facebook has prevented Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from sending private messages, after his open incitement against Arab citizens and the elected Arab leadership in Israel. In a message he sent to his followers via […]

Arab-Israeli Party Balad Agrees to Run with Joint List
Ahead of this week’s deadline to declare electoral slates, Arab-Israeli party Balad has agreed to join the other three Palestinian factions to once again run as the Joint List in Israel’s September 17 election. Balad’s […]

Newly-Reformed Joint List MKs: ‘We Are Going to Cause a Revolution’
Knesset Members (MKs) from Israel’s predominantly-Arab parties have vowed to bring about a “historical revolution” in the country’s upcoming general election, stressing that the newly-reformed Joint List must work hard to win back the support […]

Major Arab Parties in Israel Closer to Forming Joint List
Representatives of the four main Arab parties in the Israeli Knesset have reached advanced stages in their talks to form a joint list to run in Israel’s upcoming elections scheduled for September, 17th, Haaretz newspaper said on […]