Posts Tagged ‘Yesh Atid’
Israel’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 MoreIsrael’s War on Interracial Relationships and Miscegenation
Israeli Labour’s Former Leader Isaac Herzog Calls Mixed Marriages ‘A Plague’ When confronted with the charge that the IHRA definition prevents criticism of Israeli Apartheid, its defenders point to the preamble which states: ‘criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.’ The problem though is that Israel…
Read MoreIsrael Moves Another Step Nearer Being a Police State – Even for Jews
Plan to Outlaw ‘Breaking the Silence’ the group which reveals Israel’s war crimes The reality of the most benign occupation in the world Settler colonial societies, be it Israel, Algeria or South Africa, always created a certain democratic space for the settler population. The indigenous population were always faced with a racist police state but…
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 MoreHalf Israeli Jewish Teens Oppose Equal Rights for Arab Israelis
As Israeli society moves to the Right, so Israeli Jewish teenagers assimilate the values of a ‘Jewish’ state. There are only 5 mixed Jewish-Arab high schools in Israel and they are private. Jews and Arabs live in different towns and neighbourhoods. Jews serve in the army of occupation in the West Bank and of course…
Read MoreThe Right & Far Right Will Almost Certainly Win the Israeli Elections
The Last Fling of Left Zionism Herzog and Netanyahu – Spot the Difference Moshe Kalon of Kulanu – A Likud offshoot The late Shulamit Aloni who founded Meretz and drifted away from Zionism The last time that the Israeli Labour Party (flying under the Zionist Union flag today in alliance with Tsipi Livni’s Hatnuah) won…
Read MoreThe Myth of Israeli Democracy – Arab Votes Count for Nothing
Jonathan Cook, who lives in Nazareth There is a widespread belief that Israel is the Middle East’s only democracy and that Arabs, who can vote in Israeli elections, are equal participants in this democracy. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact no Arab party has ever been a member of a government coalition. …
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