Azmi Bishara

ON THE FIRST DAY OF the “million-person demonstration” against Hosni Mubarak’s regime, as the masses began to flow into Tahrir Square in Cairo, in…

In the latest of a series of bills in response to the 2007 scandal involving then-Balad chairman Azmi Bishara, the House Committee voted on Tuesday…

The Knesset Control Committee on Tuesday passed the Bishara Law in an eight-to-one vote, transferring the bill to its second and third readings. The…

The most effective rightwing MK is the Likud’s Ze’ev Elkin, who just two years ago was in Kadima, according to a biannual study, released Thursday,…

The Knesset on Monday passed the first reading of a bill that would block former MK Azmi Bishara (Balad) from receiving any more money from the…

The Israel Democracy Institute’s annual survey of sentiments toward democracy among Israelis, released this week, revealed disturbing levels of…

The arrests of two Israeli Muslim clerics in the last five weeks indicates a widening rift in the country’s Arab minority, as growing secularism…

Amid considerable pandemonium – even by the standards of our rarely calm Knesset – the House Committee last week approved a preliminary bill aimed at…

Hanegbi and the system Sir, – Regarding “Court forces Hanegbi to leave the Knesset” (November 10) and the MK’s sentence, it amazes me that there was…

Amid impassioned rhetoric, the Knesset House Committee on Tuesday approved a bill that would block former MK Azmi Bishara (Balad) from receiving any…

Israel claims to be the only democracy in the Middle East, but sometimes it doesn’t really act like it. A case in point is the growing animosity in…

Arab MKs stormed out of the Knesset Law Committee on Wednesday in protest against what they called racist legislation. Attorney Suhad Bishara of…

As I practice filmmaking, I’d like to give a cinematic introduction to this article. Here are five scenes: Scene 1, 2010, Carnegie Mellon University…

A Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) legal adviser expressed support for a proposal revoking the citizenship of those convicted of terrorism or…

Attempting to curb soaring public corruption, the Palestinian Authority (PA) on Wednesday inaugurated a new court in Ramallah to deal with the…

FROM THE BEGINNINGS OF the Zionist movement, and with growing intensity ever since the 1967 Six Day War, two contrary strains of Zionism have been…

The government's proposed loyalty oath amendment to the Citizenship Law is not strong enough, Interior Minister Eli Yishai  said at Sunday's cabinet…

Newly released video footage showing Balad MK Haneen Zoabi’s activism on board the Mavi Marmara, while less conclusive than claimed in parts of the…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sent a witness to listen in on Kadima council chairman Haim Ramon’s July 8 conversation with Palestinian Authority…

At first glance, in assessing the Knesset’s summer session, the center-right represented by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu won. The center-left…