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The Israeli public is dispirited. So why is the right euphoric?
The mantra of national unity has abetted the Israeli right’s sense of historic victory. But much of the public appears to be realizing some hard truths.
By
Meron Rapoport
March 20, 2024
‘Change in Israel will only happen when there are costs that force our eyes open’
Oct. 7 has ‘broken a contract’ between the army and gov’t, but has yet to shake key parts of Israeli society into a different paradigm, says scholar Yagil Levy.
By
Meron Rapoport
February 13, 2024
The settlers wanted supreme power. They got a rebellion instead
The religious-Zionist movement has made vast inroads in Israeli state and society for two decades. The judicial overhaul may bring it all crashing down.
By
Meron Rapoport
August 15, 2023
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The Israeli right once fought for a strong judiciary. What changed?
Scholar Dahlia Scheindlin discusses the history of Israel's struggles over a constitution, and why political camps reversed their positions on the courts.
By
Nate Orbach
April 24, 2023
The Israeli right’s most dangerous anti-Palestinian smear
The Jewish far right has been calling Palestinians 'Nazis' for almost 80 years, casting them as an irredeemable enemy in an eternal war.
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
April 20, 2023
Welcome to Simcha Rothman’s vengeful coup
Embodying the rage that drives the Israeli right’s judicial assault, the chair of the Knesset’s Law and Justice Committee is poised to bring his once-fringe ideas to fruition. And, he tells +972, he is just getting started.
By
Nate Orbach
March 9, 2023
The struggle brewing inside Israel’s anti-government movement
The far-right coalition has already provoked broad resistance from within Israeli society — but Palestine remains the elephant in the room.
By
Haggai Matar
January 12, 2023
Israel is on the cusp of a wave of army refusal under far right rule
The incoming government has prompted a new crop of teens to question their upcoming role in one of Israel society’s central tenets.
By
Oren Ziv
December 11, 2022
The radicalizing rebellion of Israel’s Haredi youth
Once staunch anti-Zionists, Haredi parties have become ensconced in the Israeli right. Now, a generation of disenfranchised Haredi youth is defying its elders and seeking meaning in the most extreme forms of supremacism.
By
Pnina Pfeuffer
October 31, 2022
An Israeli home for America’s New Right
A recent conference in Jerusalem showcases the Israeli right's embrace of American-style culture wars, nationalist populism, and cults of personality.
By
Noam Sheizaf
July 18, 2022
How threats of a second Nakba went mainstream
With the death of the Green Line and the growing political influence of Palestinian citizens of Israel, prominent right-wing figures are now openly advocating mass expulsion to preserve Jewish supremacy.
By
Meron Rapoport
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Ameer Fakhoury
June 23, 2022
What’s behind the Israeli right’s renewed war on Palestinian citizens?
Having moved on from its failed bid to formally annex the West Bank, the Israeli right has trained its sights back on an old target.
By
Meron Rapoport
February 10, 2022
I spent a week watching the Israeli Fox News. Here’s what I learned
Now 14 is a look into the right’s paranoid stream of consciousness, which loathes progressives, loves settlements, and remains loyal to King Bibi.
By
Noam Sheizaf
January 18, 2022
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