Faina Kirshenbaum

Human Rights March, December 9, 2011

Human rights march in Tel Aviv to counter anti-NGO legislation

The true essence of the foreign funding bill is its subjugation of all Israeli civil society organizations to the government’s whims. On Friday, December 9, 2011, Israeli civil society fights back at the human rights march By Ehud Uziel The revised Akunis-Kirschenbaum foreign funding bill backed by Prime Minister Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Lieberman is…

By Haokets December 1, 2011

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Yisrael Beiteinu MK: Tent organizers are like Palestinians

MK Faina Kirshenbaum from Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu Party – the same MK responsible for proposing the bill to establish parliamentary committees to investigate the funding of NGOs in Israel – was quoted today in Israel’s Ynet as saying that the tent protest organizers remind her of Palestinians. I’m paraphrasing and translating: The tent leaders’ demands…

By Mairav Zonszein August 15, 2011

Ibex in the Negev (photo: Hagai El-Ad)

Images from a weekend in the Negev

By Hagai El-Ad After the events of last week (and for an idea of how stressful it was, just read the news items posted last week on +972 Magazine…), I really needed a weekend off. I spent it hiking around and in the Timna Valley, in Israel’s south. There was no cellular reception, no MK…

By +972 Magazine January 9, 2011

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To such an Israel I shall be a traitor

By: Rechavia Berman I have a little something (little for a certified graphomaniac, of course) to say about the contemptible inquiry committee passed yesterday in Israel’s Knesset by MK Faina Kirshenbaum (Kremlin agent Evet Lieberman’s doll). But before I begin, a technical note: The shameful step taken by Israel’s laughingstock of a parliament yesterday is,…

By +972 Magazine January 7, 2011

Israel’s open prison for refugees, and other gems of doublespeak

Much will be said in the coming weeks, maybe even years, about the House Committee on UnIsraeli activities, approved yesterday by the Knesset. Roi Maor and Yossi Gurvitz both have excellent posts – Roi on the more optimistic side, Yossi closer to the end of days. While my own estimate lies somewhere between these two…

By Dimi Reider January 6, 2011

Displeased founder ."What, that's what you really wanted"? (Yossi Gurvitz)

On the morning following the putsch

The Knesset’s decision to investigate NGOs demonstrates the “end of the (democracy) party” The decision taken by the Knesset plenum yesterday, to create a parliamentary investigative committee for “the phenomenon of de-legitimization of the IDF in the world on the part of Israeli organization”, has nothing whatsoever to do with an investigation. Israel has investigative…

By Yossi Gurvitz January 6, 2011