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Why Benny Gantz is more dangerous than the Kahanists
Despite taking pride in bombing Gaza to the Stone Age, Benny Gantz is still portrayed by the Israeli media as a dove who wants to end the conflict. Nothing could be further from the truth. By Tom Mehager The partnership between the ruling Likud party and the Kahanist Otzma Yehudit party is a prime example of how racism has…
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Haokets
March 10, 2019
What does the future hold for non-Jews in the Jewish state?
A new book about Israel’s crusade against asylum seekers and undocumented workers strikes at an essential truth about the precarious status of non-Jews in a self-defined Jewish state. “The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel’s New Others,” Mya Guarnieri Jaradat, Pluto Press, 2017. In a small apartment in south Tel Aviv, a Filipina woman hides her…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
May 4, 2017
WATCH: Soldiers taunt, set dogs on Palestinian teen
Israeli army decries video showing soldiers taunting and setting dogs on Palestinian, despite it being IDF policy. A leaked video showing a 16-year old Palestinian being attacked by two canines, while being held by two IDF soldiers, was posted on Facebook on Monday by former Knesset member and far-rightist Michael Ben-Ari (who later removed it).…
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Mairav Zonszein
March 2, 2015
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Far-right party’s campaign ad banned for racism: Just the tip of the iceberg
If a campaign ad inciting against Arab citizens of Israel is deemed illegitimate, then why not the party responsible for it, or any of the myriad Knesset members who have also engaged in similar forms of incitement as well, whether against Africans, Palestinians, the LGBT community or Israeli leftists? Israel’s Central Election Committee disqualified an ad…
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Mairav Zonszein
December 16, 2012
Polls: Netanyahu is heading toward an easy victory
Four polls have the right-Orthodox bloc winning between 63 and 65 Knesset seats, making it impossible for any candidate to prevent Netanyahu from securing another term in office. Four new election polls were released in the last couple of days. (Five if you count Haaretz, but I don’t.) They all tell the same story. In…
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Noam Sheizaf
November 30, 2012
Israeli MK incites violence against leftists, Palestinians
It is reassuring to know that in Israel everyone can have their voice heard. Thus, an Israeli anti-war demonstration held last Thursday was countered by a rally supporting the military operation in Gaza by Israeli forces. But there should be a limit on free speech, especially when some of those voices are calling for violence against…
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Roee Ruttenberg
November 18, 2012
Right-wing MK: ‘Shoot border infiltrators in the head’
MK Michael Ben-Ari (National Union), who recently chose Col. Shalom “Rifle-butting” Eisner as his man of the year, is now inciting to violence. After the attack by militants that killed an IDF soldier near the Egyptian border on Saturday, he suggested killing the “infiltrators” with a bullet to the head. This, according to Ben-Ari, because…
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Ami Kaufman
September 23, 2012
MK Ben-Ari: My Man of the Year is ‘rifle butting’ Col. Shalom Eisner
Michael Ben-Ari (National Union), the extreme right wing MK who makes Jean-Marie Le Pen look like a baguette with no joie de vivre, waited for the Sabbath to end and finally get onto his Facebook page to post this gem of a status. Just a day before Rosh Hashana, he chooses his Man of the…
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Ami Kaufman
September 15, 2012
Knesset circus gets uglier: MK Ahmad Tibi photoshopped as a pig
First MK Michael Ben-Ari tore the New Testament to pieces in his chambers. (See photo here) Then, MK Ahmad Tibi tore a photograph of Ben-Ari’s mentor, the late and racist Rabbi Meir Kahane, over the Knesset podium. (Watch here) And now, another disciple of Kahane, Baruch Marzel, posted the photo below of Tibi as a…
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Ami Kaufman
July 19, 2012
WATCH: MK Tibi tears picture of Meir Kahane over Knesset podium
Two days ago, National Union MK Michael Ben-Ari was photographed in his chambers tearing up a copy of the New Testament. Yeterday, MK Ahmad Tibi responded. I’m quite tired of MK Tibi’s gimmicks and theatrics and what seems to be a constant need to get a headline. I agree with Speaker Reuven Rivlin who claims…
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Ami Kaufman
July 18, 2012
MK Michael Ben-Ari rips up New Testament, throws it in trash
According to the Israeli website NRG, MK Michael Ben-Ari (National Union) tore the New Testament to pieces and then threw it in the trash after the Bible was sent to all 120 members of Knesset by a man named Victor Kalish, who according to NRG specializes in publishing Christian religious texts. In the article, Ben…
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Ami Kaufman
July 17, 2012
WATCH: Nakba discourse inflames passions on all sides
Israel has gone to great lengths to remove mention of the Nakba – the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948 – from textbooks, public discourse, and the public space. But as state efforts to ban Nakba commemorations increase, so does interest in the issue, with more and more Israelis believing that dealing with the matter is a…
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Social TV
June 12, 2012
A plea for protection, as Israel moves to deport South Sudanese
International organizations warn of a humanitarian disaster and pending war in South Sudan. Israel, however, has seized the new state’s independence as an opportunity to deport South Sudanese nationals, who formerly enjoyed the temporary protection Israel extends to Sudanese citizens. Authorities on Sunday began arresting South Sudanese asylum seekers in Israel ahead of their deportation. This is…
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June 10, 2012
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