Posts Tagged ‘Likud’
There is only one solution to the Ascendancy of Ben Gvir and Smotrich – an end to a Jewish Supremacist State
Jonathan Freedland’s Inability to Understand Israel’s Present Crisis is Symptomatic of Liberal Zionism’s Refusal to Accept that a Jewish Democratic State is an Oxymoron Whatever the situation and whatever the crisis, Jonathan Freedland can be relied on not to understand it. So it is with his latest essay on [Netanyahu is leading a coup against his own country. But…
Read MoreWhat is the Meaning of Ben Gvir, Smotrich and Israel’s Far-Right Government?
Those Who Think Israel is Becoming a Fascist State do Not Understand What Fascism is To paraphrase Rudyard Kipling, when all those around you are losing their heads, it’s a good idea to keep a firm grip on your own head! Never has so much hysterical nonsense been written by so many as in the…
Read MoreIsraeli Elections 2022 – a Jewish Nazi Party Religious Zionism is now the Third Largest Block in the Knesset
The Elections Are Not All Bad News As the Hypocritical Zionist ‘Left’ is All But Eliminated and Meretz Loses Its Last Representatives It’s an ill wind that blows no good and so it is with Israel’s recent elections. While no one can be happy with the increase in the number of seats for Religious Zionism/Jewish…
Read MoreIsrael’s November Election is a Choice Between the Far-Right and the Further-Right
Religious Zionism – a Jewish Nazi Party – is Set to Become the 3rd largest party in the next Knesset On November 1st Israel will have its fifth general election in three years and it is unlikely, even then, that a stable government will be formed. Israeli politics are drifting inexorably to the far-Right as the number…
Read MoreDemolishing the Myth that Israel was a Democracy before 1967 and that anti-Arab Racism Began Under Begin and Netanyahu
Demolishing the Myth that Israel was a Democracy before 1967 and that anti-Arab Racism Began Under Begin and Netanyahu There is nothing that Likud has done that the Israeli Labor Party didn’t do before it There is a comforting myth beloved of ‘left’ Zionism that before 1967 and the 6 Days War and Occupation, life…
Read MoreAll Animals Are Equal but some are More Equal than Others –
Cartoonist Fired by the Jerusalem Post for Comparing Netanyahu and Likud MKs to Pigs – the Pigs Bitterly Complained! Mocking celebration of nation-state law, cartoonist Avi Katz depicted Netanyahu as a pig in homage to Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ published by the Jerusalem Post-owned magazine Jerusalem Report All Animals Are Equal but some are More Equal than…
Read MoreIsraeli Knesset Rejects Bill to Enshrine Equality in Law
A Palestinian citizen of Israel waves a Palestinian flag during a protest against the police killing of Khir Hamdan in Umm al-Fahm. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org) It should be no surprise that when faced with a choice of enshrining equality in Israel’s Basic Law (the equivalent of a constitutional law) the Knesset voted it down. Not…
Read MoreIsrael Herzog v Gideon Levy and the Bankruptcy of Israeli Labour
The debate in the pages of Ha’aretz between Gideon Levy and Isaac Hertzog, leader of the Zionist Union/Israeli Labor Party demonstrates the utter bankruptcy of the Zionist ‘left’. It is a useful reminder of how useless the Israeli Labour Party is since there are illusions among the Corbynistas, not least Corbyn himself, that the Israeli…
Read MoreThe Blog that Predicted the Victory of Netanyahu
Likud’s Triumph Emphasises the Irrelevance of Labour Zionism When all the pundits predicted that Netanyahu and the Right would be defeated in the Israeli General Election, this blog stood alone in predicting that the Zionist Right would triumph once again. Jews voting for the Joint Jewish-Arab List How could one disagree? In a blog post…
Read MoreIsraeli Election Results 2013
Netanyahu – warmonger Prime Minister casts his vote Old Wine in New Zionist Bottles In the article I wrote 4 years ago, after the 2009 Israeli elections, I said that the 2 State solution was dead as a door mouse. Today membership of the Flat Earth society is a more rational choice than support for…
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