After former IDF Gen. Yair Golan failed to be named army chief of staff, he decided to enter politics, as almost all generals and spy chiefs do in Israel. A natonal security state raises all these figures on a gold pedestal. They tend to see their heroes as defenders of the state. The more Arabs […]
Netanyahu Wins and Will Be Next Prime Minister of the Judeo-Ethno-State
UPDATE: Haaretz columnist Anshel Pfeffer has just tweeted that the final votes tabulated form the IDF count do NOT put Bennett’s New Right party into Knesset. Meretz has also gained a seat. In the midst of a very dark election, these developments are some consolation. Looks like the soldiers vote has not put Bennett/Shaked over […]
Boycotts Have an Honored Status in Jewish History
There’s a supreme irony in Israel’s current all-out war on BDS. A boycott played a critical part in one critical episode in modern Jewish history. In 1933, American Jewish leaders organized an international boycott of Germany. The campaign was extremely effective. Over five years, German trade declined dramatically and its economic recovery was impaired. In […]
Israel’s Zionist Left “in the Toilet”
And no, that memorable phrase was not mine. Rather, it was an appraisal that outgoing Party chair, Zehava Gal-On offered after the incoming Party chair, Tamar Zandberg, said in a TV interview that she would be willing to enter a future governing coalition with Avigdor Lieberman’s Israel Beitenu Party. This, of course shocked many members […]
