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Yair Lapid (photo: Yotam Ronen / Activestills.org)

The ethnic vote and the ‘white coalition’: 7 takeaways from Israel’s elections

Netanyahu is most likely to form his next government around the religious and the secular middle class, represented by election victors Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid. The coalition will concentrate on domestic reform and will only strengthen the status quo on the Palestinian issue. Also: Did Israelis really move left? Seven takeaways from the elections.…

By Noam Sheizaf January 23, 2013

WATCH: Ultra-right Israeli MKs mock Arabs in Arabic campaign video

This has got to be one of the more disgusting videos I’ve seen. The Otzma LeYisrael party, headed by ultra-right wing MKs Aryeh Eldad and Kahanist Michael Ben-Ari have posted their first campaign video to be shown on Israeli TV on YouTube (according to Ben-Ari’s Facebook page). The televised election campaigns kick off Tuesday night,…

By Ami Kaufman January 7, 2013

Baruch Marzel (L) and Aryeh Eldad in Um al-Fahm in 2009 (Activestills)

Far-right party’s campaign ad banned for racism: Just the tip of the iceberg

If a campaign ad inciting against Arab citizens of Israel is deemed illegitimate, then why not the party responsible for it, or any of the myriad Knesset members who have also engaged in similar forms of incitement as well, whether against Africans, Palestinians, the LGBT community or Israeli leftists? Israel’s Central Election Committee disqualified an ad…

By Mairav Zonszein December 16, 2012

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WATCH: Right wing MK ruins Bob Marley tune in campaign ad

This has to be one of the most sacrilegious videos ever made. Even before elections have been announced (no doubt they will), ultra-right winger MK Aryeh (aryeh = Lion in Hebrew) Eldad of the Hatikva party (part of the National Union party) took Bob Marley’s “Iron, Lion, Zion” song – and murdered it. As someone who was…

By Ami Kaufman April 30, 2012