Yair Golan revitalized his floundering political career when he started making genocidal statements and telling the people of Gaza, “you can die from starvation, it’s totally legitimate.”

Adrian Kreutz reflects on his visit to Palestine to join in Al-Haq’s International Law Summer Program.

For those concerned that Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed judicial reforms will threaten democracy in Israel I simply ask, “democracy for whom?”

“Have you gone mad?” Tamar Zandberg of Meretz challenged Labor after it supported Netanyahu’s plan to deport 40,000 African refugees. But Avi Gabbay, the Labor leader, is pushing the faction to the right in order to meet the Israeli public where they stand, in racist policies.

The leader of the Israeli “left” opposition faction Zionist Union, Avi Gabbay, says, “The left has forgotten what it means to be Jewish,” a virtual carbon copy of Benjamin Netanyahu’s comment from 20 years ago. The parallel shows the collapse of any real opposition to the hard right in Israeli politics.