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An Israeli Black Panther’s call for true democracy
We did not get to taste one drop of the promises in the Declaration of Independence. Now we must gather all the oppressed groups we have ignored.
By
Reuven Abergel
May 8, 2023
The dilemmas of the Mizrahi left in the Israeli protest movement
Prof. Smadar Lavie discusses the possibilities and contradictions of the Ashkenazi-dominated protests against the government, and traces the efforts of a small cohort of Mizrahi activists to make their voices heard.
By
Shane Burley
and
Ben Lorber
March 28, 2023
Why Israel’s opposition won’t talk about the real goal of judicial overhaul
Government officials have explicitly said their legal reforms are about annexation. Opponents won't admit it because they share the same vision.
By
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
February 21, 2023
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Likud attempts to intimidate Palestinian voters with hidden ballot cams
Poll workers from the Likud party are using hidden cameras to record Palestinian voters as they head to the polls on Election Day. The goal? To intimidate Arab citizens and make sure they stay home. Members of the ruling Likud party placed at least 1,200 hidden cameras on poll workers across Palestinian towns and villages in Israel…
By
Haggai Matar
April 9, 2019
There is no good vote in a paralyzed society
For years, Israelis have allowed values of equality, justice, and peace, to go by the wayside. Tuesday’s vote reflects not only the impotence and absence of a left, but just how paralyzed Israeli society is. In some ways, Tuesday’s election is predictable. Netanyahu and his right-wing camp are expected, according to most polls, to secure the 61-seat…
By
Mairav Zonszein
April 8, 2019
Why these Israeli elections actually matter
Netanyahu looms so large that he has become a symbol of everything that’s right and wrong with Israel. But behind the symbol stand two very substantive visions of where Israel is headed. Like most weeks over the last decade, this was a week of Netanyahu. It began on Saturday evening when the prime minister gave…
By
Dahlia Scheindlin
March 29, 2019
What Israelis aren’t, but should be talking about in these elections
Could these elections bring about the end of Netanyahu’s rule? Why isn’t anyone talking about half a century of occupation? And do these elections even matter, anyway? +972 and Local Call writers open up on what’s at stake this time around. Reading much of the Israeli and international press, one might get the impression that…
By
Edo Konrad
March 6, 2019
Don’t believe the hype: The Israeli right is weaker than it seems
The right had a decade to annex the West Bank, quash Palestinian aspirations, and thwart Hamas in Gaza. Yet today, more than ever, its invincibility is anything but certain. By Meron Rapoport The past decade belonged to the Israeli right. Since 2009, the right-wing bloc easily defeated its opponents and won elections, while Prime Minister Benjamin…
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+972 Magazine
December 27, 2018
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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+972 Magazine
December 10, 2018
Netanyahu is stuck with Hamas, and he likes it that way
Netanyahu understands that keeping Hamas in power comes at a heavy political price. But as long as it thwarts the possibility of a Palestinian state, it’s worth it for him. By Meron Rapoport Weak. Giving into to terror. Those were the words Avigdor Liberman used to describe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his press conference…
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+972 Magazine
November 15, 2018
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
Take a look around. This is what annexation looks like
The annexation of Palestine will not come one day, it is happening every day, and this is what it looks like: legislating mundane changes about higher education councils. There will be no definitive moment, event or a point in history, when we can say that annexation happened. Israel’s annexation is a process — a deliberate process…
By
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
February 13, 2018
There is no status quo, only Greater Israel
Netanyahu’s party and government are finally making explicit what has long been implied: rejecting the premise that the Palestinians will ever have a state of their own. Over the past few years, analysts have been using the term “creeping annexation” to describe Israel’s land grabbing, segregationist policies in the West Bank. But over the past…
By
Edo Konrad
January 3, 2018
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