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Netanyahu isn’t the only one interested in prolonging the war
A broad coalition of political forces, from Israel's far right to the Zionist left, have differing motivations for turning the war into the new normal.
By
Menachem Klein
April 9, 2024
A century after its founding, the Israeli Communist Party is at a crossroads
For 100 years, Maki has been the leading force for Jewish-Palestinian equality in Israeli politics, yet it has failed to unite Arab and Jewish workers into a viable movement. Was it doomed from the start?
By
Joel Beinin
July 28, 2023
The danger of treating Smotrich as an anomaly
By marking one Israeli politician as unacceptable, U.S. Jews are sidestepping the need to reckon with the wider system that enables his genocidal views.
By
Edo Konrad
March 9, 2023
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How this government will turn its Jewish critics into dissidents
The transformation of Israeli leftists into dissidents is a reminder that no one is safe from the attempts to turn the 'wrong kind' of Jews into enemies.
By
Edo Konrad
December 16, 2022
Peace Now is taking direct action against settler outposts. Can it succeed?
The anti-occupation group is pushing the Zionist left to adopt more disruptive tactics, says interim head Dana Mills. But are there limits to its approach?
By
Oren Ziv
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Meron Rapoport
August 16, 2022
The siege is only a symptom
To confront Israel’s violence against Palestinians, progressive Jews in Israel and around the world must reckon with the ideology that lies at its root.
By
Ben Reiff
August 11, 2022
Everyone is in on the plunder of Palestinian land
The retroactive legalization of a settler outpost exposes the complicity of the entire Zionist spectrum in the dispossession of Palestinians.
By
Orly Noy
August 2, 2022
Meretz abandons its last core value
The Israeli left argued that ousting Netanyahu would open the space to fight the occupation. A vote on an apartheid law shows the opposite has happened.
By
Meron Rapoport
June 14, 2022
Israel’s peace camp is taking up bulldozers to fight the occupation
A demo against a settler outpost shows how Israeli activists are increasingly adopting radical direct action following the anti-Netanyahu protests.
By
Oren Ziv
and
Haggai Matar
June 1, 2022
How an army refusal letter became the last stand of the Zionist left
Two decades ago, hundreds of Israeli reservists caused a national sensation for refusing to serve in the occupied territories. But what remains of their legacy?
By
Noam Sheizaf
March 29, 2022
Good riddance to Rabin Square
The closure of Rabin Square presents an opportunity for the Zionist left to let go of its former leader’s legacy and embrace a politics of decolonization.
By
Ben Reiff
November 3, 2021
Jewish parties ‘compromise’ against Palestinians and call it democracy
Negotiations over a settlement outpost and a racist law show that Zionist parties of all stripes will find common ground to deny Palestinian rights.
By
Orly Noy
July 1, 2021
Why Israel’s new government brings grim news and rare hope
Two stories reveal that while the Bennett-Lapid government will remain bad on all things occupation, its fractured coalition could help undermine parts of its racist agenda.
By
Haggai Matar
June 30, 2021
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