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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 tried to manage the conflict. Bennett wants to ‘shrink’ it
The Bennett-Lapid coalition has no clear vision of what to do with the Palestinians — so it's trying a different strategy.
By
Meron Rapoport
August 12, 2021
Kahanism doesn’t need a seat in the Knesset
Israelis may fear the racist Itamar Ben-Gvir could enter the Knesset next week, but the government has been carrying out his vision just fine without him.
By
Orly Noy
March 21, 2021
The Israeli right wants Arabs at the polls — with one big condition
Israeli politicians are scrambling for the votes of Arab citizens. But this love affair is driven by a colonial goal: erasing the community's Palestinian identity.
By
Meron Rapoport
and
Ameer Fakhoury
February 4, 2021
Bibi goes MAGA: How Netanyahu is exploiting the Capitol Hill riot
The Israeli prime minister and his supporters in the media are spinning the riot in Washington to paint anti-Netanyahu protesters as a dangerous threat.
By
Yali (Yael) Marom
January 13, 2021
The Israeli right’s new vision of Jewish political supremacy
The settlement project's success has led to an intertwined Jewish and Palestinian population, reviving the problem Israel tried to solve through expulsion in 1948. Now, the right's priority is segregation.
By
Raef Zreik
October 27, 2020
The Israeli right is erasing Arabic from Jerusalem, one street sign at a time
A campaign by right-wing activists to strike off Arabic from Jerusalem street signs goes hand in hand with government attempts to uproot the city's Palestinian identity.
By
Ben Reiff
September 24, 2020
Israeli cinema is trying — but failing — to reckon with Jewish terrorism
Four recent films explore the rise of the far right in Israel. But by exceptionalizing their subjects, they fail to get to the roots of their ideology.
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
April 10, 2020
Go ahead, annex the West Bank
The annexation of the Jordan Valley would officially make Israel an apartheid state from the river to the sea. But that may not be as terrible as we think.
By
Meron Rapoport
January 23, 2020
The illusion of stability is key to the Israeli right’s rule
The right portrayed Israel as an island immune to the world’s political and economic turmoil over the past decade. The left needs a coherent, inclusive platform to challenge that narrative.
By
Matan Kaminer
December 30, 2019
The Israeli right’s fury is driven by fear of Palestinian citizens
Palestinian citizens of Israel are intensifying their fight for equality. The right-wing has spent the last decade doing everything in its power to stop them.
By
Amjad Iraqi
December 27, 2019
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