Posts Tagged ‘Zionist Union’
If Israel is ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ why does the Knesset Refuse to Even Discuss a Bill Calling for Israel to be a State of all its Citizens?
As long as Israel is a Jewish state it can’t be a democratic state JAMAL ZAHALKA and Haneen Zoabi. (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST) When the three members of Balad in the Knesset proposed a Bill calling for Israel to be a state of all its citizens rather than a Jewish state, all…
Read MoreAvi Gabbay, leader of Israel’s Labour Party cuts links with Jeremy Corbyn alleging ‘anti-Semitism’
It is long overdue that Labour severed its links with Israel’s (Labour) party of ethnic cleansing Last week the new leader of the Israeli Labour Party, Avi Gabbay issued a letter cutting his links with Jeremy Corbyn. It is doubtful that this racist twerp had any links in the first place. His actions were designed…
Read MoreThe Israeli Labour Party Attacks Netanyahu for being too soft on African Refugees
The Jewish Labour Movement’s ‘sister party’ supports the physical expulsion of refugees from Israel to Eritrea Demonstration of Eritrean Refugees Outside the Eritrean Embassy in Tel Aviv For those who are not aware, after Palestine had been ethnically cleansed of Palestinians in 1947-8, those who tried to return to their lands were called ‘infiltrators’ and…
Read MoreIsraeli Labour Party Supports Netanyahu’s Attempt to Expel an Arab MK, Basel Ghattas
Basel Ghattas is the latest Arab member of the Knesset to come under attack from the Jewish majority It is one of the boasts of Israel that it is the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’. Arabs can vote goes the narrative, therefore we are a democracy. Of course the idea that a democracy…
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 MoreBanning the northern Islamic Movement Demonstrates that for Arabs Israel is no Democracy
Demonstration against the banning of the northern wing of the Islamic Movement Netanyahu decided on November 17th to ban the northern wing of the Islamic Movement. A movement which is supported by about half of Israeli Palestinians. Netanyahu did this for nakedly political reasons, as Jonathan Cook shows in his article below. Raed Salah outside…
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 MoreIsraeli Labour – As Racist as Likud
There is nothing that Netanyahu’s done that Israeli Labour governments haven’t done before him Those with short memories and an even shorter imagination believe that an Israeli Labour Party government will be a break from the Netanyahu government. This despite the fact that the ILP has supported all the attacks on Gaza. Now the leader…
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