Muhammad Naffa

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
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
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