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Far-right Polish demonstrators take part in the annual National Independence Day march, November 11, 2022. (Matthias Berg/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

It’s not just Europe’s far right enabling Israeli apartheid

An antisemitic Romanian party is hardly Israel’s first fascist ally. But mainstream European parties have been just as complicit in Israel’s abuses.

By Eitay Mack September 4, 2023

A participant in the annual "March of the Living" event at Auschwitz concentration camp, May 2, 2011. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Learning the wrong lessons from the Holocaust

After World War II, states rightly took seriously the fight against antisemitism. But that mission must not embolden Israel's oppression of Palestinians.

By Alon Confino February 2, 2023

Proud Boys participating in a neo-Confederate protest in Pittsboro, North Carolina on October 26, 2019. (Anthony Crider/ CC BY 2.0)

Disrupting the dark web of white supremacy

In ‘Culture Warlords,’ Talia Lavin goes beyond exposing the underbelly of the far right in the United States — she actively resists it.

By Shane Burley November 11, 2020

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Left-wing activist Anat Matar (right) seen alongside attorney Michael Sfard in the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, April 28, 2019. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

What happens when you call a right-winger a ‘fascist’ in Israel

A known right-wing activist tried to sue left-wing academic Anat Matar for calling him an ‘arch-fascist’ on Facebook. It blew up in his face. A prominent right-wing activist published a statement last week acknowledging that he shouldn’t file lawsuits to resolve political arguments, as part of an agreement to settle a lawsuit he filed. Left-wing…

By Oren Ziv May 8, 2019

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked's satirical campaign ad mocks the Israeli left for its opposition to her attempts to weaken the judicial system.

In Israel’s elections, only the far right is talking about democracy

A new campaign ad by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked signals that this time around, only the far right is talking about democratic norms — and how to undo them. Does the opposition have a response? Of all the aspects of political campaigns that voters love to hate, none is more maligned than the political advertisement.…

By Dahlia Scheindlin March 22, 2019

President Donald Trump stands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he arrives at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, May 22, 2017, for his first official visit to Israel as president. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

A wall and a war: Two things every fascist regime needs

Both Trump and Netanyahu want to secure their rule by attacking liberal, democratic forces. But in order to do so, they need two things: a wall and the promise of eternal war. By Alon Mizrahi “George Soros is funding the campaign against deporting infiltrators… Obama deported two million infiltrators and they didn’t say anything.” These…

By +972 Magazine February 5, 2018

Supporters of French president-elect Emmanuel Macron celebrate outside the Louvre in Paris, May 7, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

We’ll always have Paris

While the French gave the world a lesson in hope, democracy and standing up to fascism, the Israeli government advanced a childish, nationalistic law that declares: we are Jews, they are Arabs, we’re good, they’re bad. By Alon Mizrahi Europe and the world expect us to defend the spirit of the Enlightenment, under threat in…

By +972 Magazine May 8, 2017

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a YouTube address (Screenshot).

With one viral video, Netanyahu rewrote Israeli history

By accusing Palestinians of attempting to ‘ethnically cleanse’ Jews, Netanyahu is not only distorting history, he is actively delegitimizing both the Palestinians and the Israeli Left. By Na’aman Hirschfeld “Ethnic cleansing is the forced removal of ethnic or religious groups from a particular territory with the intent of making it ethnically or religiously homogeneous. That’s the…

By Haokets October 2, 2016

Heinz-Christian Strache, Chairman of the Freedom Party of Austria. (photo: (Franz Johann Morgenbesser CC BY-SA 2.0)

The Israeli Right’s historic ties to European fascism

The ruling Likud party welcomed to Israel members of the far-right Austrian Freedom Party, whose founders were high-ranking officials in the Third Reich. But the Israeli Right’s ties to fascist movements stretch back as far as the 1920s. By Noam Rotem The heads of the Freedom Party of Austria, an extremist, far-right political party, are…

By +972 Magazine April 14, 2016

Right-wing activists from ‘Im Tirzu’ protest at the entrance to the Tel Aviv University, November 20, 2014. (photo: Shiraz Grinbaum/Activestills.org)

How Im Tirtzu dominates Israel’s public debate

While its campaign of intimidation against supposed left-wing Israeli artists seems to have backfired, Im Tirtzu’s role in Israel’s current political climate cannot be overstated. The political climate in Israel has become so draconian and repressive lately that it was slightly surprising how quickly everyone rushed to denounce Im Tirtzu’s latest campaign against mainstream artists and…

By Mairav Zonszein February 1, 2016

Soldiers in an IDF honor guard hold their weapons during the funeral for a soldier killed in Gaza, July 20, 2014, Holon, Israel. (Photo by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

It’s time to challenge Israeli militarism from within

The Left must fight the urge to exclude those who haven’t served in combat roles from voicing their opinion on the occupation. By Michal Rotem Several weeks ago, Israeli Police prevented Israeli human rights group Breaking the Silence from organizing a talk in a pub in Be’er Sheva. After a court backed the decision to…

By +972 Magazine December 20, 2015

Im Tirzu activist fitting himself into a student protest in TAU for the release of Hana Shalabi (Oren Ziv / Activestills)

Supreme Court: ‘Fascist’ Im Tirzu case had no standing

Supreme Court rules that the right-wing ‘Im Tirzu’ movement had no basis to sue a group of Facebook activists who labeled it ‘fascist.’ By Oren Persico “It pains me to say so, but this suit contradicts this court’s fundamentals regarding the scope of freedom of speech, whereas we are speaking of the heart of the…

By The Seventh Eye July 16, 2015

A fighter from the Islamic State. (photo: Islamic State)

No, Hamas isn’t ISIS, ISIS isn’t Hamas

But equating the two is Netanyahu’s latest way of hypnotizing people into supporting the Gaza war. He gets away with it because people are afraid that if they challenge this idiotic slogan, they’ll be accused of ‘defending Hamas.’ Anybody who isn’t a shill for Israel can see through Netanyahu’s new slogan, “Hamas is ISIS, ISIS…

By Larry Derfner August 24, 2014