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Right-wing campaign portrays human rights leaders as foreign agents
Israeli human rights leaders are now being portrayed as back-stabbing foreign implants. One minute and nine seconds. That’s the length of the inciting video published this morning by right-wing activist Ronen Shoval. In less than a minute-and-a-half, Shoval manages to sum up all the reasons why an Israeli court deemed it okay to call “Im…
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Orly Noy
December 15, 2015
Supreme Court: ‘Fascist’ Im Tirzu case had no standing
Supreme Court rules that the right-wing ‘Im Tirzu’ movement had no basis to sue a group of Facebook activists who labeled it ‘fascist.’ By Oren Persico “It pains me to say so, but this suit contradicts this court’s fundamentals regarding the scope of freedom of speech, whereas we are speaking of the heart of the…
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The Seventh Eye
July 16, 2015
The ‘anti-Zionist’ camp goes mainstream in Israeli elections
Both Netanyahu and Livni are leveraging their international influence for electoral gain: Netanyahu in Congress and Livni at the United Nations. And, will the real Zionist camp please stand up? Elections are almost always referendums on the incumbent, and an incumbent always has an advantage against any challengers. One of those advantages is the ability…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
January 23, 2015
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A pre-publication breakdown of Im Tirzu’s latest ‘report’
Im Tirtzu is about to publish a new ‘report.’ It’s already on the Internet, but they haven’t yet started publicizing it, so get ready to read about it here for the first time. Let’s start with the only new and refreshing aspect of this report. This is the first time that anyone has issued a…
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Yossi Gurvitz
May 21, 2014
Right-wing group seeks to dismantle Israeli NGO dedicated to Palestinian return
Just weeks after it was deemed to have ‘fascist characteristics,’ nationalist group Im Tirtzu tries to shut down Zochrot for allegedly ‘rejecting the existence of the State of Israel.’ Right-wing group Im Tirtzu is attempting to shut down Zochrot, a non-profit organization that dedicates itself to raising awareness of the Nakba in Israeli society, and working…
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Edo Konrad
September 24, 2013
No, democracy isn’t the right of the majority to squelch dissent
By Naomi Paiss To some, the controversy over the firing of Adar Cohen, the Education Ministry bureaucrat in charge of civics education, may be no more than a footnote in the cultural and political wars roiling Israel. In my professional position, running communications for the New Israel Fund, I might agree. My job requires me…
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+972 Magazine
August 22, 2012
Ultra-nationalist leader invokes Assad’s victims to defend Israel
Im Tirtzu, the ultra-nationalist organization whose main activity has involved witch-hunt campaigns against Israeli civil society and academia, has hit upon a new angle that it believes will save Israel, which one of its leaders unveiled in an op ed in Haaretz on Monday (Hebrew): expose human rights violations in the Arab and Muslim world!…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
March 21, 2012
Did rightist NGO leader admit to being inspired by fascist thinkers?
As Im Tirzu takes its opponents to court, a troubling picture of the inspiration of its leader emerges Yesterday, the defense in the trial of Im Tirzu vs. the Facebook group “Im Tirzu – a fascist movement” presented its depositions. The plaintiff is the infamous right-wing group, the defendants are a group of leftist activists,…
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Yossi Gurvitz
February 13, 2012
Im Tirzu’s Iranian connection
Ronen Shoval, Im Tirzu’s chairman, claims to be an uber-patriot. So why does he partner with a company dealing with enemy countries? By Itamar Sha’altiel and Yossi Gurvitz. An earlier version of this report appeared here (Hebrew). As part of their vendetta against human rights organizations, Im Tirzu published a report, which pretends to investigate the…
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Yossi Gurvitz
February 16, 2011
Im Tirzu founder’s strange fruit: Israeli democracy
Shoval's "different viewpoint" targets human rights groups as the source of evil in Israel and calls to smother the voices of Israel's dissenting community, including academics. His new perspective seems mainly about wiping out other people's perspectives.
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Dahlia Scheindlin
January 11, 2011
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