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The Israeli right stopped talking about occupation, and that will hurt it at the polls
Netanyahu has joined forces with religious radicals who have stopped talking about Palestinians and are instead pushing a homophobic and sexist agenda. It may just might seal his political doom. By Meron Rapoport It didn’t take long for Prime Minister Netanyahu to use the doomsday weapon against Avigdor Liberman immediately following the last elections. Netanyahu blamed his…
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August 27, 2019
The right wing in Israel is in a deep crisis
Snap elections just weeks after Israelis went the polls are the result of a rivalry between Liberman and Netanyahu, but that’s just part of the story. The right is immersed in a crisis of identity, leadership, and politics. By Meron Rapoport What happened to Avigdor Liberman? Why did he insist on cutting short what will…
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June 2, 2019
The right’s plan to get rid of Israel’s High Court
The far right wants to defang Israel’s highest court to fulfill its annexationist dreams. Netanyahu wants to overpower it to ensure he remains on the throne. For Palestinians, annexation has long been a fact on the ground. By Meron Rapoport The attacks on Israel’s High Court by the right would not have gained traction without Prime Minister Netanyahu’s personal support. These…
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May 24, 2019
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When we celebrate Israeli democracy, we celebrate the violence of occupation
In democratic countries, elections are conventionally described as ‘a celebration.’ But in an undemocratic reality of endless military occupation, they become an overt celebration of the violence of the powerful. By Hagai El-Ad “So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up…
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February 25, 2019
No more waiting: LGBTQ Israelis must take the rights they deserve
The Israeli government doesn’t believe LGBTQ Israelis should be able to adopt children, yet continues to tell the world what a wonderful place Israel for the queer community. By Yael Marom The past few days have been a stark reminder of just how the Israeli government views the LGBTQ community. The Welfare Ministry’s statement calling LGBTQ…
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July 18, 2017
Creeping censorship in a southern Israeli town
Verbal attacks by right-wing groups and politicians in Be’er Sheva are threatening both NGOs and the local university. By Daniel Beller Over the past year various entities, including right-wing movements, have been trying to close down a joint Jewish-Arab cultural institution in the southern Israeli town of Be’er Sheva. The Multaqa-Mifgash Center, founded by the…
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May 31, 2017
The Right’s plan to beat Palestinians into submission
The good news: the Right has a plan to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The bad news: it’s as racist as you think. The truth is that that there is no future in the Middle East for Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich’s new political program, which seeks to completely erase Palestinians from the river to the…
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Samah Salaime
May 20, 2017
Israel’s deafening silence on Chechnya
Israel claims that its attitude towards the LGBT community within its borders is proof of its ‘light unto the nations’ status. So why is the government silent when LGBTs overseas are rounded up and tortured? By Ilan Manor One winter morning during his second tenure as British prime minister, Winston Churchill awoke to a scandal: two…
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May 10, 2017
When homophobia becomes a tool for political persecution
The campaign against the Left in Israel reaches a new low: a planned protest at the wedding of an anti-occupation group’s director and her wife-to-be. It shows that when dissent is characterized as treason, there is no area of one’s life that is off-limits. It’s a clear sign of the times when protesting at someone’s wedding…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
January 25, 2016
Knesset passes dangerous settlement funding law — without a hitch
A new law formalizes the outsourcing of rural settlement activity in the West Bank. A boon to the settlements, a blow to democracy — and the taxpayer. While Israeli society has been busy with incitement against human rights workers, a baby-killing celebration, and legislation attacking civil society, the Knesset quietly approved a new law last…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
December 29, 2015
‘Jews can’t be terrorists,’ Jewish Home MK says
‘When you push an entire population up against the wall, when you demonize them and trample their rights, [the situation] will explode in the end,’ the Israeli parliamentarian writes with no sense of irony. Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich, a member of Israel’s ruling coalition, penned an oped on Wednesday arguing that Jews cannot be…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
December 10, 2015
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