What is a protest movement worth which uses the same repressive tactics as the government against which it’s protesting? What use is a movement that demands democracy, while behaving like thugs to those who would be allies? What good is a movement that betrays the values it claims to uphold? While Israel’s new fascist government […]
Gantz to Join Israeli Unity Government, Blue and White Opposition Disintegrates
Former Blue and White coalition leader, Benny Gantz, has single-handedly destroyed the very alliance he founded by agreeing to join a unity government with the ruling Likud and its far-right bloc. When the news broke, his former partners, Yair Lapid of Yesh Atid and Bogie Yaalon of Telem, angrily denounced the betrayal and vowed to […]
Aliyah Down from France, U.S.; Social Rifts Widening Within Israel
Haaretz published new figures concerning Israeli immigration which show that in the first three months of 2017, aliyah decreased markedly from both the U.S. and France, two of the largest Jewish Diaspora communities. It was down by 25% in the U.S. and 29% in France. This contrasts with vocal predictions from Israeli leaders that not […]
Jewish Home MK Candidate Directs Settler Rabbi Group Which Adovcated Genocide
In 2011, I posted the graphic accompanying this post. It features an article from in a settler newsletter published by a Haredi group called ‘Fountains of Salvation’ (beware anyone promising redemption either through religion or politics). It was shocking when I first read it, because it contained the first explicit reference I’d seen to transferring Palestinians to death […]
