Ron Ben-Yishai is one of Israel’s most respected veteran journalists. He says Palestinians only have themselves to blame for the deaths of children and civilians in Israel’s latest attack on Gaza.
Jonathan Ofir interviews Israeli playwright Einat Weizman about her play “Prisoners of the Occupation” and how theater can become a vehicle for political mobilization and change.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s appointment of self-described “proud racist” May Golan as Consul General in New York will likely alienate more American Jews from Israel.
New Likud MK Avichai Buaron published an editorial in 2010 that supported extermination camps for “Amalekites,” a thinly-veiled euphemism for Palestinians.
The Balad-Tajammu’ party says the current Israeli protest movement is fighting for a fake democracy for Jews only. How sobering it is that this view is considered so radical it is beyond the pale for Israeli politics.
Speaking at a lectern featuring a map of “Israel” that included the West Bank, Gaza, and Jordan as Israeli territory, Bezalel Smotrich claimed Jewish Israelis are “the real Palestinians.”
The obsessive focus on the Israeli flag within the current anti-government protest movement shows its goal is simply to preserve the apartheid status quo.
Smotrich’s genocidal pronouncements take inspiration from a long history that belongs to the left as much as it does to the right, beginning with the Labor Zionism of David Ben Gurion.
An apparent summit agreement by Israel to cease settlement for six months was promptly mocked by Netanyahu and his extremist allies. Read the fine print and Israel will keep pouring concrete!
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich published a shocking plan in 2017 to advance Israeli apartheid. Now that it is being put into action veteran journalist Ron Ben-Yishai finally recognizes the danger.