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The sad truth behind Israeli ‘happiness’
How can a country that administers constant violence and suffers deep inequalities be ranked the fourth happiest in the world?
By
Asaf Calderon
April 17, 2023
The danger of treating Smotrich as an anomaly
By marking one Israeli politician as unacceptable, U.S. Jews are sidestepping the need to reckon with the wider system that enables his genocidal views.
By
Edo Konrad
March 9, 2023
Why Ben Gvir wants more guns on the streets
The Israeli far right sees widespread gun ownership as a means of enforcing racial supremacy — a lesson taken straight out of the American playbook.
By
Nate Orbach
February 1, 2023
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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.
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
April 10, 2020
PODCAST: Does Kahanism expose what Israel tries to hide?
Kahanism reveals a larger, inconvenient truth about Israel’s very nature, says researcher Natasha Roth-Rowland.
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
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Henriette Chacar
January 17, 2020
+972 Magazine’s 25 most-read posts of 2019
From climate catastrophe in Israel-Palestine to the crackdown in Kashmir to the dark past and present of Israeli arms exports — here are our most popular articles from the last year.
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December 24, 2019
How Netanyahu mainstreamed his dark, anti-democratic vision for Israel
By attacking the judiciary, bringing extremists into his coalition, and trying to subvert voting rights, Benjamin Netanyahu has presented a dark vision of an anti-democratic future for Israeli politics. By Harry Reis Benjamin Netanyahu emerged from September’s repeat elections a failure. Denied his desired majority, the prime minister’s only real hope of retaining power now…
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October 4, 2019
Otzma Yehudit is out. Does that mean Israelis reject Kahanism?
While the Kahanist Otzma Yehudit party failed to pass the electoral threshold, the latest national elections in Israel saw the normalization of Kahane’s particular brand of overt racism. Twenty-one years ago, Rabbi Meir Kahane stared into the camera during an election ad for his Kach party and told viewers, “[the Arabs of Israel] want to kill…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
September 19, 2019
Are voters about to send Kahanists back to the Knesset?
If the polls are accurate, more than 140,000 voters will vote the Kahanists back into the Knesset in next week’s election. Yet the desire for a pure Jewish state long ago moved from the margins of Israeli society to the mainstream. By Ron Cahlili One week before Israel’s national election, nearly every major poll shows the Kahanist party Otzma…
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September 11, 2019
These elections are a choice between resignation and despair
Four years ago, the prospect of another Netanyahu government meant perpetuating the status quo. This time, the opposition is offering the status quo — and Netanyahu something far worse. The short distance between resignation and despair is the difference between knowing that things aren’t going to get any better and the fear that they could…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
March 19, 2019
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…
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Haokets
March 10, 2019
What will it take for Israel’s right-wing voters to say enough?
A small group of right-wing voters could tip the balance and lead to a change of government in Israel. Who are these voters, what do they care about, and would a Kahanist party in the Knesset be a step too far? Until one week ago, it looked unlikely that Benjamin Netanyahu could lose an election.…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
March 1, 2019
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…
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February 26, 2019
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