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It’s time to stop asking why the Israeli left has disappeared
For Israeli left-wing voters, nothing is more important than overthrowing Netanyahu. Yet despite their common cause, the left remains anything but united and it is polling at unprecedented lows. There is one thing shared by nearly every Israeli who does not define her or himself as right-wing: a profound desire to oust Benjamin Netanyahu. And…
By
Dahlia Scheindlin
February 14, 2019
What will Israeli politics after Netanyahu hold for the Palestinians?
Disrupting Israel’s insular political discourse will require fully activating the Palestinian leadership in Israel, grassroots and civil society organizations, and foreign governments and institutions. In August 2017, three thousand Israelis greeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a rally in Tel Aviv organized by the Likud party. A few days earlier, media outlets reported that the…
By
Amjad Iraqi
March 16, 2018
Elections: Good for Netanyahu, bad for Israel
A coalition crisis could mean elections in a matter of months. If Netanyahu wins, even a post-election indictment will not stop the slide into a darker future for Israel. He wants them, he wants them not, he wants them, he wants them not. Over the last two weeks, the sport of Netanyahu psychoanalysis in the…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
March 12, 2018
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Explained: Why many on the Left are furious at new Labor leader Avi Gabbay
From vowing never to join forces with Arab political parties to saying there’s no reason to remove settlements, Labor’s new leader has alienated many on the Left in recent months. His latest move, supporting the deportation of asylum seekers, is different. Last July, Avi Gabbay was elected chairman of the Labor party on the promise…
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Joshua Leifer
November 23, 2017
Some Israelis think human rights are incompatible with Judaism. They’re wrong
We must reject the false choice between giving up on our traditions and accepting narrow, tribal, and racist interpretations of Judaism. By Yariv Mohar Judaism and humanism are increasingly seen as diametrically opposed in Israel today. Labor Party chairman Avi Gabbay’s recent remarks, in which he echoed Netanyahu’s infamous comment that “the Left has forgotten what…
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November 16, 2017
Pandering to the Right is a losing strategy for Labor
Israel’s Labor Party must decide what it stands for before the next round of elections. Without a true vision for the country, there’s really no reason it should win. Avi Gabbay, the new head of Israel’s Labor Party, appears to be plotting a master strategy for winning elections, with laser-razor precision. A largely unknown candidate,…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
November 16, 2017
Israel’s ‘Jewish values’ will forever leave Palestinians on the sidelines
Labor leader Avi Gabbay called the Left too ‘liberal’ and not Jewish enough, reminding us that he has much more in common with Netanyahu than he lets on. By Iddo Naiss From the earliest days of Jewish nationalism, there were fundamental disagreements between its different stripes over the role their ideology would have once submerged into…
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November 14, 2017
Without obtaining power, the Israeli Left will remain paralyzed
If we want Israel to change, if we want the occupation to end, we have to operate in the existing political sphere. We cannot simply wait for the one we want. A response to Edo Konrad. By Maya Haber American neoconservatives have been wildly successful at bringing the Israeli Right back to power through a…
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+972 Magazine
November 9, 2017
What Labor’s new leader must do to resuscitate the Left
Instead of creating an lifeboat for undesired political has-beens, new Labor leader Avi Gabbay should try to unite Israel’s center-left behind a defiant message in the face of an emboldened right-wing coalition. By Abe Silberstein There are more than enough reasons for Labor Party voters to be thoroughly skeptical of their recently-elected leader, Avi Gabbay. He…
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August 24, 2017
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