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Ra’am Party leader: IDF murdered 50,000 civilians in Gaza

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Coalition Knesset members assailed Israeli lawmaker Mansour Abbas (Ra’am Party) on Wednesday after he urged an end to the war against Hamas and claimed that the IDF murdered 50,000 civilians in Gaza. “Of course I want...

Netanyahu: Israel will defeat Hamas ‘neo-Nazi regime’ in Gaza

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The Israel Defense Forces is making significant progress towards the total destruction of Hamas’s “neo-Nazi regime” in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the opposition during a Knesset debate on Wednesday. “If it were up to you—in the...

Israel moving to close terror-linked Ra’am charities

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Israel’s Justice Ministry has initiated the process to close down two nonprofits controlled by the Islamist Ra’am Party due to their alleged financing of Hamas terrorism. Igatha 48 (“Aid 48”) and the Association for Humanitarian...

Court upholds freeze on accounts of terror-linked Ra’am charity

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The Tel Aviv District Court on Tuesday rejected a request to unfreeze bank accounts belonging to a charity controlled by the Islamist Ra’am Party, ruling that Israel’s Bank Leumi had presented sufficient evidence substantiating...
Ra'am Party leader Mansour Abbas attends the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, on Feb. 22, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s foreign minister

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The responses elicited by the death of Al-Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh were written hundreds of years ago. Blood libels—the practice of using the death of non-Jews as a means to set up the Jewish collective...
Ra'am Party leader Mansour Abbas speaks at University of Haifa’s Conference on Politics and Arab Society, April 5, 2022. Credit: Yaniv Kopel.

Most Israeli Arabs believe voting in Israel’s next election is important, says survey

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Eighty-four percent of Israeli Arabs agree that it is important to vote in the next Israeli election, and more than three fifths are optimistic about conditions for the sector improving in the future, according...
Ra'am Party leader Mansour Abbas at party headquarters in Tamra, on election night, March 23, 2021. Photo by Flash90.

Islamic Movement’s new leader set to continue pragmatism, working with Israeli government

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The southern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel chose a new leader in recent weeks that cements its continued role in the Israeli government. Sheikh Safwat Frij, who previously served as deputy head of...

Mansour Abbas is leading a sea change for Israel’s Arabs

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Just a few weeks ago, Knesset member Mansour Abbas—the head of Israel’s Ra’am Party—said it’s time for his countrymen to accept Israel’s Jewish identity. His remarks were met with outrage—both from Arabs inside Israel and...
Ra'am Party head Mansour Abbas attends a plenary session at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 28, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Ra’am Party leader Mansour Abbas meets in Amman with Jordan’s King Abdullah

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Ra’am party chairman Mansour Abbas met with Jordan’s King Abdullah in Amman on Tuesday, reported Israel’s Channel 12 news. According to an additional report by Walla, sources in the office of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Abbas had...
Head of opposition and head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu walks next to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during a plenum session and a vote on the state budget at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem on November 4, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Hypocritical Israeli coalition politics get ugly

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For some observers of the Israeli political scene, there’s only one thing that matters. For the Biden administration, the crucial question is whether the outcome of the maneuvering in Jerusalem between the various political...