How can you blame Zionist left political parties for embracing Israeli generals, despite their assorted war crimes, when Israeli human rights organizations are doing the same?

Israeli nostalgists like to argue that Israel was an idealistic country till Netanyahu. For instance, Chemi Shalev of Haaretz brags on a record of backing MLK Jr and African liberation movements. The records of the Israeli National Archives directly contradict these claims, and show Israel propped up several African dictators, and sought to gain diplomatic and material advantages, such as a monopoly on diamonds in the Central African Republic.

A ruling shutting down the densely populated city of Bnei Brak is similar to countless rulings that Israeli High Court judges have written in recent decades on the rights of the Palestinian population in the Occupied Territories. This time the Ministry of Health took the role of the military commander in a Palestinian village. The ease with which judges have allowed the government to place a closure on Bnei Brak only proves how weak the Israeli High Court of Justice really is.

Declassified cables from Israeli diplomats in Brazil in the 1980s show that the Israeli government supported the continuation of military rule over democracy because it feared the Workers Party would give support to Palestinians, Eitay Mack reports.

Yad Vashem’s chief historian assists in the whitewashing of Poland’s role in the Holocaust and is willing to ignore the strengthening of Israel’s ties to anti-Semites, so long as Netanyahu stands to gain politically. 

Israeli activists submitted a FOIA request to unearth the details behind Israel’s apparent blacklist of BDS activists that was given to a German airline earlier this week. Eitay Mack writes, “According to an Israeli law passed in March banning the entry of foreign BDS activists is indeed legal by Israeli rules, but there are grave questions raised by the process in which the decisions on who to ban was made. As well, it is alarming that Israel gave a blacklist to a foreign airline, in this case, Lufthansa, who then prohibited the boarding of U.S. passengers in a U.S. airport. Meaning, the Israeli law to ban BDS activists was actually imposed in the U.S., not in Israel.”