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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...

Shin Bet asked to delay closure of terror-linked Ra’am charities

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The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) pressed the Justice Ministry to delay proceedings to close down two terror-linked nonprofits controlled by the Islamist Ra’am Party, Israel Hayom reported on Wednesday. According to the report, officials 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...
MK Iman Khatib-Yasin attends a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 17, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

Two MKs sanctioned for false claims about Oct. 7 massacre, war

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Two Arab lawmakers were suspended from the Knesset on Wednesday for false claims about the Oct. 7 massacre and ensuing war against Hamas. The Knesset Ethics Committee voted to sanction Ra’am Party MK Iman Khatib-Yasin...
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid with head of the Ra'am Party, Mansour Abbas, in the Knesset assembly hall on June 21, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Report: Lapid rules out cooperation with ‘extremists’ Otzma Yehudit, Ra’am

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In an apparent about-face, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid ruled out on Wednesday the possibility of forming a coalition with the far-right Otzma Yehudit and Islamist Ra’am parties for the Nov. 1 elections. Speaking at...
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid Defense Minister Benny Gantz attend a vote on the "settler law" bill at the Knesset, June 6, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

The collapse of the current Israeli government is only the first step

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It is difficult to count how many times members of Israel’s governing coalition seemed about to drop out, thus opening the door to the government’s demise. We were simply observers of this interminable process....
Mansour Abbas, head of the Ra'am party, leads a faction meeting in the Knesset on Oct. 4, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

What is the Shura Council?

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When Israel’s Ra’am Party froze its membership in the government coalition last month over the Temple Mount riots, the decision came not from the party’s leadership but from a body called the Shura Council....
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 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...