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A rotten system, not just rotten apples
Settler violence against human rights activists is not the work of a few ‘rotten apples,’ but rather a government-backed strategy that could have dangerous consequences. We should be taking it deathly seriously. By Libby Lenkinski Over the last few weeks, the settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron have ramped up their harassment of…
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August 1, 2018
When Zionism is racism: Ron Dermer and Bibi Netanyahu, on the record
Imagine if a politician in another country had bragged about lowering a minority group’s birthrate – like Netanyahu and his new ambassador to the U.S. did. Ron Dermer, who was named by Netanyahu yesterday to be Israel’s new ambassador to the United States, is known as an even more right-wing Republican version of his boss.…
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Larry Derfner
July 10, 2013
Why did Ron Dermer decide to leave PM Netanyahu’s office?
Maariv daily paper reported last week that Ron Dermer, Netanyahu’s American aid, is leaving the Prime Minister’s Office. The story cited family reasons – a standard in such cases – and Netanyahu has refused to comment on the issue to follow-up pieces in the Jerusalem Post and Times of Israel. Personal changes between governments are…
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Noam Sheizaf
February 9, 2013
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Are Israelis living in a ‘fear society,’ or a ‘free society’?
As much as left-wing protesters have to fear Israeli cops, they have to fear even more the Israeli “street” the cops are shielding them from. In his 2004 book The Case for Democracy, Natan Sharansky (with co-author Ron Dermer, head of Bibi Netanyahu’s brain trust) popularized his “town square test,” which he called the threshold…
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Larry Derfner
April 27, 2012
Netanyahu’s office parrots baseless spin on foreign funding of NGOs
The fierce backlash against attacks on Israeli human rights NGOs has pushed to the front an old argument against foreign funding for these groups. Various right wing columnists and politicians have been parroting it, but now you hear it from Netanyahu’s office as well: As for questioning the legitimacy of foreign government funding of Israeli NGOs,…
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Roi Maor
January 23, 2011
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