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No, Palestinians in Israel don’t support Assad

Ascribing a pro-Assad position to large swaths of the Arab population in Israel, and presenting ‘Arab parties’ as one unified block, ignores a far more complex political discourse taking place within Palestinian civil society. A response to Yossi Gurvitz. By Muhammad Jabali I wish that I could write about this subject without so much personal…

By +972 Magazine March 5, 2012

Opposition activists must choose: Either human rights or Assad

By supporting the Assad regime, elements of Balad and the Communist Party of Israel show they are not allies in the fight for human rights Last Thursday, a special UN commission on Syria found that the Assad regime is committing crimes against humanity, and that senior regime officials are participants in these crimes. The commission…

By Yossi Gurvitz February 27, 2012

Thoughts following the Syrian massacre

Toppling the regime in Damascus should be the top priority these days | Those who once praised the Assads as anti-colonial heroes should learn their lesson | and condemnations of the Chinese-Russian Security Council veto would have sounded better if it wasn’t for the Americans’ history of using its own veto power This blog deals…

By Noam Sheizaf February 4, 2012

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Stalin supporter. Jerusalem, April 2010 (Photo: Yossi Gurvitz)

Israeli communist party head believes Stalinist show trial

The secretary general of the CPI, Muhammad Naffa, stands by his support of the Assad regime – and turns out to be a hardline Stalinist I’ve covered recently the strange behaviour of the secretary general of the Communist Party of Israel, Muhammad Naffa, who participated in a rally supporting the Assad regime. If anyone thought,…

By Yossi Gurvitz October 21, 2011

Where does the CPI stand? A communist demo in Tel Aviv (Photo: Yossi Gurvitz)

Israeli Communist Party’s double-talk on Assad regime

Even now, the secretary general of the CPI and other apparatchiks still seem to support the Syrian dictator A few months back I wrote about the fact that the communists are at it again: Saying one thing in Hebrew and another in Arabic. The specific case was Syria and the fact that the secretary general…

By Yossi Gurvitz October 9, 2011