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…

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The 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…

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Israeli 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…

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Israel 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…

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Israeli 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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