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ILLUSTRATION (Protest against a new Jewish settlement in Ras Al Amud, East Jerusalem, 27.05.2011 photo: Activestills)
Why I let a Palestinian woman from East Jerusalem decide my vote
It doesn’t feel good or empowering to give up my right to vote. It feels mostly shitty, and maybe that is how it is supposed to feel. But as long as it is not an inalienable right for those who live under the same governmental roof, it is absolutely alienable to me. I just returned from…
By Mairav Zonszein January 22, 2013
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres (photo: activestills.org)
Bibi can relax – the ‘center-left’ is really on the right
The actual right-wing bloc looks set to win over 100 of the Knesset’s 120 seats in Tuesday’s election. There’s only one reason to vote against it: the future.  “Right-wing bloc’s majority slashed,” read the headline over today’s election poll in Haaretz. “The gap is closing,” according to the poll in today’s Yedioth Aharonoth. Both surveys…
By Larry Derfner January 18, 2013
Asma Agbaria, chairwoman of Da'am (YouTube screenshot)
WATCH: Finally, an Israeli politician demanding Arab-Jewish unity
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post sharing my personal grappling with the question of whether to vote or not in the election in 12 days. I’m still not sure if I will end up voting, as it feels to me in principal like conceding to Israel’s farcical democracy and a direct affront to…
By Mairav Zonszein January 10, 2013
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MK Dov Khenin (Yossi Gurvitz)
Vote for Arab-Jewish parties, or don’t vote at all
Just as an American wouldn’t imagine voting for a party that does not accept blacks, progressive Israelis should only consider voting for parties that challenge the separation between Palestinian and Jews. This is a translation, with minor changes, of my weekly column for Time Out Tel Aviv. The Hebrew original can be read here. A…
By Noam Sheizaf January 5, 2013
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