Yisrael Beitenu Party

MK Michaeli: Gays need therapy, commit suicide at age 40

MK Anastasia Michaeli (Yisrael Beiteinu) is at it again. Remember the last one, when she poured water on an Arab MK from Labor, Ghaleb Majadele? You can watch that video here. Today she was in a panel discussion in the Knesset, and somehow the topic of homosexuals came up. Michaeli had something to say [Heb], as…

By Ami Kaufman June 13, 2012

Avigdor Lieberman (Sivan Hurvitz)

The way to beat the fascists? Let them go wild

Why waste all this energy on small victories against the powerful right? Let them hit the wall. Hard. The social networks today were all abuzz with a big victory for the left over the right. Bank Leumi, the largest bank in Israel, was forced to freeze a charity campaign when customers discovered that money they…

By Ami Kaufman December 11, 2011

Not fascists, Volkists: Liebrman activists on election day, 2009 (Yossi Gurvitz)

Isolation is the price of Netanyahu’s electoral strategy

Matt Yglesias effectively refutes the argument that Netanyahu lacks a coherent strategy: Netanyahu … described his strategic objectives as including perpetual military control over the Jordan Valley, perpetual Israeli control over East Jerusalem, and the non-emergence of a genuinely sovereign Palestinian polity on whatever scraps of the West Bank remain for Palestinian residents once Jewish…

By Roi Maor September 18, 2011

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Yisrael Beiteinu MK: Tent organizers are like Palestinians

MK Faina Kirshenbaum from Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu Party – the same MK responsible for proposing the bill to establish parliamentary committees to investigate the funding of NGOs in Israel – was quoted today in Israel’s Ynet as saying that the tent protest organizers remind her of Palestinians. I’m paraphrasing and translating: The tent leaders’ demands…

By Mairav Zonszein August 15, 2011

Loyalty laws draw unexpected supporters and opponents

It is not surprising that Israel Beitenu (“Israel is our home”), the party that ran on the platform of “No Loyalty – No Citizenship” would propose a bill giving preference to those who have served in the IDF or national service when applying for public sector jobs, over those who have not. The bill is…

By Dahlia Scheindlin June 20, 2011

Feeling the loyalty to the Jewish State of Israel

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsWDcFiPo2s[/youtube] The Israeli Knesset is debating a bill proposed by David Rotem of the extreme right Yisrael Beiteinu party that would require all Israeli citizens to swear loyalty to Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state.” This bill is targeted at increasing pressure on the 20 percent of Israelis who are Palestinian citizens, while forcing…

By Joseph Dana September 19, 2010