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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

Netanyahu rival Benny Gantz delivers a statement to the media in Tel Aviv, February 28, 2019. (Flash90)

Why Benny Gantz is more dangerous than the Kahanists

Despite taking pride in bombing Gaza to the Stone Age, Benny Gantz is still portrayed by the Israeli media as a dove who wants to end the conflict. Nothing could be further from the truth. By Tom Mehager The partnership between the ruling Likud party and the Kahanist Otzma Yehudit party is a prime example of how racism has…

By Haokets March 10, 2019

Kahanist Michael Ben-Ari gives a speech to right-wing demonstrators who are protesting an event commemorating the Palestinian Nakba at Tel Aviv University, May 14, 2012.

How to stop Kahanists from taking over

Twenty-five years after a follower of Meir Kahane massacred Palestinian worshipers in Hebron, Netanyahu is basing his future coalition on a Kahanist party. Now Israelis will have to decide between apartheid and a future of hope and equality. By Raluca Ganea Reality is often too complex to draw clear lines between cause and effect. But occasionally, a single act…

By +972 Magazine February 26, 2019

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Population and Immigration Authority agents arrest a Filipina and her daughter in south Tel Aviv, taking them to a deportation detention facility at Ben-Gurion Airport prior to their deportation, August 16, 2011. It was the first documented arrest in which a child of foreign immigrant workers, born, raised and educated in Israel was arrested and deported. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

What does the future hold for non-Jews in the Jewish state?

A new book about Israel’s crusade against asylum seekers and undocumented workers strikes at an essential truth about the precarious status of non-Jews in a self-defined Jewish state. “The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel’s New Others,” Mya Guarnieri Jaradat, Pluto Press, 2017. In a small apartment in south Tel Aviv, a Filipina woman hides her…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland May 4, 2017

Radical right-wing activist Benzi Gopstein arrives at an Israeli police station in the West Bank for questioning, February 25, 2016. (Yonathan Sindel/Flash90)

What Israeli leftists can learn from the radical right

Right-wing activists keep suing Israeli police — and winning — for false arrests and other abuses of power. Maybe it’s time the state start paying for its abuses against left-wing activists and Palestinians. By Yael Marom Israeli police and prison officials were ordered to pay NIS 30,000 ($8,000) to radical right-wing activist Benzi Gopstein and…

By +972 Magazine September 17, 2016

Settler who attacked leftist rabbi: ‘If I kill one it’ll be over’

The young settler charged with attacking Rabbi Arik Ascherman blames human rights advocates for causing tension in the West Bank: ‘If I kill one of them it’ll be over. But that isn’t legal.’ The Jewish extremist accused of attacking Rabbis for Human Rights president Arik Ascherman last month was charged in court two weeks ago with causing grievous…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland November 27, 2015

PHOTOS: LGBT activists confront far-right protest in south Tel Aviv

‘We are here to protest those who were a part of the incitement that led to the death at the pride parade in Jerusalem,’ says one participant. Text by Oren Ziv, Photos by Oren Ziv and Keren Manor/ Activestills.org Some 50 LGBT activists confronted a right-wing protest in south Tel Aviv where leaders called to condemn…

By Activestills August 20, 2015

A man is seen crying following a mass stabbing attack against the Jerusalem LGBTQ Pride Parade in Jerusalem, July 30, 2015. (Keren Manor/Activestills.org)

Pride parade stabber found fit to stand trial

Yishai Shlissel, the ultra-Orthodox man arrested for attacking marchers at Jerusalem’s Pride Parade for the second time, has been declared mentally fit to stand trial — again. Yishai Shlissel, the ultra-Orthodox man accused of murdering a teenage girl and injuring five other people in a stabbing attack at the Jerusalem pride parade last month, was declared mentally fit…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland August 20, 2015

The word 'revenge' is seen graffitied on the wall of the Dawabshe house, Duma, West Bank, July 31, 2015. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

How Israeli taxpayers subsidize ‘Jewish terror’

Honenu, an organization that provides legal services to suspected terrorists, violent settlers and gives financial support to their families, receives tax-deductible donations in both Israel and the United States. What do Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin, the murderers of Mohammed Abu Khdeir and the arsonists convicted of setting fire to Jerusalem’s Jewish-Arab Hand in Hand school have…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland August 5, 2015

WATCH: Far rightists harass Justice Minister as he prays in Hebron

Right-wing extremists Noam Federman and Itamar Ben-Gvir aren’t known for their good manners, to say the least. Which is why it isn’t much of a surprise to see these two heckle Israeli Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman while praying at one of the holiest (and controversial) Jewish (and Muslim) sites around, the Tomb of the Patriarchs…

By Ami Kaufman June 30, 2011