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Israel’s Anti-Government Protest Quashes Display of Palestinian Flags Thugs at protest rallies behave as badly as the government against whom they're protesting

Richard Silverstein January 15, 2023

What is a protest movement worth which uses the same repressive tactics as the government against which...

BREAKING: Likud Activist Who Made Death Threats Against Bennett Identified Ilana Khanya is a Likud Activist who mailed a death threat to Naftali Bennett's wife, containing a bullet

Richard Silverstein May 9, 2022

חשיפה: החשודה בשליחת מכתבי האיום והקליעים למשפחת בנט היא אילנה חניה, פעילת ליכוד בולטת Last week, an...

Gantz Caves, Agrees to Likud Conditions to Form Unity Government

Richard Silverstein April 20, 2020

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, conceded key positions he’d maintained in prior unity government negotiations; and...

Gantz to Join Israeli Unity Government, Blue and White Opposition Disintegrates

Richard Silverstein March 26, 2020

Former Blue and White coalition leader, Benny Gantz, has single-handedly destroyed the very alliance he founded by...

Knesset Speaker Resigns, Provoking Major Political Crisis

Richard Silverstein March 25, 2020

Today, Israel’s Knesset Speaker, Likud veteran, Yuli Edelstein, resigned rather than follow a Supreme Court directive to...

Israel’s Shin Bet Transforms Mission from Hunting Terrorists to Hunting the Sick

Richard Silverstein March 24, 2020

One of the many anti-democratic ploys unleashed by the Likud in the last dying days of its...

Israeli Supreme Court Orders Likud Speaker to Reconvene Knesset, Relinquish Power to Blue and White

Richard Silverstein March 23, 2020

NOTE: Middle East Eye published my latest piece on the Likud’s soft coup preventing the Opposition Blue...

Gantz Negotiating to Form Unity Government with Likud

Richard Silverstein March 22, 2020

Benny Gantz, leader of Israel’s Blue and White Opposition appears to have abandoned his plan to form...

Gantz, Pledging to Form “Government of All Israel’s Citizens,” Tapped to Form Ruling Coalition

Richard Silverstein March 16, 2020

Israeli ex-General and leader of the Blue and White Coalition, Benny Gantz, has performed something of a...

Israeli Election: the Day After Offers Hope Netanyahu May Be Toppled

Richard Silverstein March 5, 2020

NOTE: Middle East Eye published a new post-election piece warning that the so-called Likud victory was nothing...

Netanyahu Ethnically Cleanses Israeli Palestinian Knesset Vote

Richard Silverstein March 4, 2020

הכרעת העם ברורה: 58 מנדטים למחנה הציוני-ימני ו-47 מנדטים למחנה הציוני-שמאלני. אזרחי ישראל נתנו לי קולות יותר...

Days Before Election, Likud Engages in Palestinian Voter Suppression

Richard Silverstein February 28, 2020

Tearing a page from the Trump 2016 campaign playbook, the Likud Party is engaged in large-scale voter...