Tag: Ra’am
Ra’am Party leader: IDF murdered 50,000 civilians in Gaza
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
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
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
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...
Two MKs sanctioned for false claims about Oct. 7 massacre, war
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...
Report: Lapid rules out cooperation with ‘extremists’ Otzma Yehudit, Ra’am
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...
The collapse of the current Israeli government is only the first step
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....
What is the Shura Council?
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....
The Muslim Brotherhood’s foreign minister
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...
Islamic Movement’s new leader set to continue pragmatism, working with Israeli government
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...