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‘The escalation is frightening’: Jerusalem Christians fear for their future
The city’s dwindling Christian community is facing a spike in hate crimes under the far-right government, with possible ramifications for Israel’s ties abroad.
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Natan Odenheimer
July 14, 2023
The radicalizing rebellion of Israel’s Haredi youth
Once staunch anti-Zionists, Haredi parties have become ensconced in the Israeli right. Now, a generation of disenfranchised Haredi youth is defying its elders and seeking meaning in the most extreme forms of supremacism.
By
Pnina Pfeuffer
October 31, 2022
‘A failure of communication’: Haredi Jews at the epicenter of Israel’s coronavirus outbreak
Contrary to popular opinion, Israel's ultra-Orthodox community was not trying to flout coronavirus directives. The government, including its Haredi health minister, effectively abandoned it. An interview with journalist Eli Bitan.
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Mairav Zonszein
April 5, 2020
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Elections reveal a seismic split within Israel’s right
Once the ascendant elite, the settler movement’s political power is on the decline. By Meron Rapoport While political analysts wonder if we have come to the end of the Netanyahu era, little attention is being paid to another major outcome of this election — that is, the decline of the national religious movement’s political power.…
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September 19, 2019
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
Once there’s no Palestinian suspect, the media loses interest
The media played a key role in turning a Palestinian man into the top suspect in a recent child rape case. But ever since charges against him were dropped, the press seems to have lost interest in the case. By Uzi Benziman If you Google the recent rape case of a seven-year-old ultra-Orthodox girl in an ultra-Orthodox settlement in…
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The Seventh Eye
July 11, 2019
How the media helped turn an innocent Palestinian into a child rapist
Mahmoud Katusa, who was falsely accused of raping a 7-year-old Jewish girl, fell victim to a press and a public atmosphere that views Palestinians as guilty until proven innocent. By Uzi Benziman In order to understand the false allegations against Mahmoud Katusa, a Palestinian man from the West Bank who was wrongfully accused of raping a…
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The Seventh Eye
June 25, 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
Why are Israeli liberals suddenly courting a far-right nationalist?
Liberman’s political maneuvering may just bring about King Bibi’s downfall, but that doesn’t mean secular liberals should forget the reasons they opposed him all these years. Avigdor Liberman has, over the past decade, exerted a greater impact on Israel’s political discourse than any other lawmaker. In just a few years, he made once unthinkable ideas — such as…
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Edo Konrad
May 30, 2019
The price Mizrahim pay for serving in the Israeli army
Mizrahim are forced to carry out the dirty work of the occupation, coming face to face with their Palestinian subjects in the West Bank. It doesn’t have to be this way. It is hard to know for sure what kind of considerations are at the heart of the growing crisis between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
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Orly Noy
May 29, 2019
Netanyahu will do all he can to destroy Jewish-Arab alliances
The alliance between Palestinian citizens of Israel and the Jewish left has historically been viewed as a threat to the rule of the right. That’s why Netanyahu is doing everything he can to undermine it. By Eli Bitan The Israeli right knows exactly how to harm the left: by making its alliance with Palestinian citizens…
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December 10, 2018
This is what it looks like to be hit by Israel’s ‘Skunk’
The ‘Skunk,’ a foul-smelling liquid most often used to suppress Palestinian demonstrations, is now finding a new target: ultra-Orthodox Jews. For much of the past year, Israeli forces have been using a foul-smelling liquid shot from a water cannon at high velocity to try and put down a burgeoning protest movement by ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem.…
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Edo Konrad
November 27, 2017
Netanyahu can count on U.S. Jews to stay silent on the occupation
The prime minister sparked controversy when he announced he wouldn’t be speaking at the biggest Jewish American event of the year. But Bibi knows that no matter what, American Jews won’t speak out against his occupation policies. Prime Minister Netanyahu knows that no matter what, he can count on American Jews not to speak out against…
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Joshua Leifer
October 31, 2017
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