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A pro-Netanyahu rally turns into a forum for deep state conspiracies
Like Trump’s base, the speakers and audience at Tuesday night's pro-Netanyahu rally in Tel Aviv seemed convinced that someone else is managing their country behind the scenes.
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Oren Ziv
November 27, 2019
By labeling Arabs an ‘existential threat,’ Bibi invokes a terrifying history of ethnic violence
Netanyahu organized an emergency Likud gathering Sunday night, in which he accused Israel's Palestinian citizens of supporting terror. We know how this kind of thing can end.
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Dahlia Scheindlin
November 18, 2019
Jewish-Arab partnership as an antidote to Jewish supremacism
We need to redefine Israeli politics. No more left and right, liberal or conservative, religious versus secular. Instead: a new partnership of Arabs and Jews, working side-by-side to combat Jewish supremacism. By Meron Rapoport and Ameer Fakhoury Israel has been at a political dead end for many months, particularly since the most recent national election…
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October 30, 2019
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In Israel, ‘politics as usual’ means escalating Palestinian oppression
Three trends from Israel’s do-over election demonstrate that the more Israeli politics stay the same, the more dangerous its policies become. There are many moments in Israeli-Palestinian history where landmark developments seem to change nothing and everything at the same time. Israel’s September election is one of them. While featuring many familiar and predictable patterns, the latest…
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Amjad Iraqi
October 4, 2019
Likud vs Likud: How Revisionist Zionism conquered Israeli politics
Israel’s elections have been billed as a clash of the titans between Netanyahu and Gantz. But no matter who wins, the real victory goes to Vladimir Jabotinsky, the grandfather of the Likud. In what should be regarded as a historic photograph taken last Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the head of the Likud party, and Benny…
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Amjad Iraqi
September 27, 2019
Elections reveal a seismic split within Israel’s right
Once the ascendant elite, the settler movement’s political power is on the decline. By Meron Rapoport While political analysts wonder if we have come to the end of the Netanyahu era, little attention is being paid to another major outcome of this election — that is, the decline of the national religious movement’s political power.…
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September 19, 2019
What do Palestinians in Gaza really think about the Israeli elections?
On the eve of the elections, four young Palestinians in Gaza open up about their thoughts on Israeli political parties, whether they think there’s hope for change, and what life is like under siege. By Yuval Abraham Muhammad The electricity cuts out at 2pm in Gaza, but Muhammad has charged his phone in advance so he’ll have enough battery…
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September 12, 2019
PODCAST: Could Mizrahim find their most natural allies in Palestinians?
Jewish Israelis with roots in Arab and Muslim countries have faced systemic discrimination for decades. As Jewish political parties court their votes, +972 writer and Local Call editor Orly Noy has a different idea. Listen here: iTunes/Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Spotify It is no secret that for decades, the Zionist left discriminated against Mizrahim, or Jews with roots…
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August 16, 2019
Netanyahu’s Putin campaign alienates Israel’s Russian-speaking voters
A new election poster of Netanyahu gloating about his relationship with the Russian authoritarian leader may have entirely missed the mark with younger Russian-speaking voters, revealing deep generational divides. By Lily Galili Over the past few years, Israel has seen a small stream of new immigrants from Russia. Tens of thousands of liberal, educated Jews from a fairly high…
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August 9, 2019
Israeli elections c’tee hasn’t taken any steps to stop Arab voter intimidation
Four months after the ruling Likud party led a voter intimidation campaign against Palestinian voters, the government body responsible for ensuring free and fair elections says it hasn’t made any changes to its process. With just a few weeks before Israeli citizens head back to the polls for the second time this year, the government body responsible for…
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Henriette Chacar
August 7, 2019
Likud attempts to intimidate Palestinian voters with hidden ballot cams
Poll workers from the Likud party are using hidden cameras to record Palestinian voters as they head to the polls on Election Day. The goal? To intimidate Arab citizens and make sure they stay home. Members of the ruling Likud party placed at least 1,200 hidden cameras on poll workers across Palestinian towns and villages in Israel…
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Haggai Matar
April 9, 2019
There is no good vote in a paralyzed society
For years, Israelis have allowed values of equality, justice, and peace, to go by the wayside. Tuesday’s vote reflects not only the impotence and absence of a left, but just how paralyzed Israeli society is. In some ways, Tuesday’s election is predictable. Netanyahu and his right-wing camp are expected, according to most polls, to secure the 61-seat…
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Mairav Zonszein
April 8, 2019
Why these Israeli elections actually matter
Netanyahu looms so large that he has become a symbol of everything that’s right and wrong with Israel. But behind the symbol stand two very substantive visions of where Israel is headed. Like most weeks over the last decade, this was a week of Netanyahu. It began on Saturday evening when the prime minister gave…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
March 29, 2019
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