radical left

A convention of the Israeli Communist Party (Rakah), Tel Aviv, December 15, 1976. (National Library of Israel/Dan Hadani Archive/The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection)

A century after its founding, the Israeli Communist Party is at a crossroads

For 100 years, Maki has been the leading force for Jewish-Palestinian equality in Israeli politics, yet it has failed to unite Arab and Jewish workers into a viable movement. Was it doomed from the start?

By Joel Beinin July 28, 2023

Young protesters burn their draft orders for the Israeli army during a protest against the government in Tel Aviv, April 1, 2023. (Oren Ziv)

These Israeli youth are burning their draft orders — and no longer feeling alone

Left-wing high schoolers describe how the anti-government protests have provided a window for the mainstreaming of views long deemed illegitimate.

By Oren Ziv May 24, 2023

Yael Lerer. (Rabeea Eid)

The Israeli bringing the fight for justice in Israel-Palestine to France’s parliament

After years in the Israeli radical left, Yael Lerer wants to replace a Netanyahu ally as the representative of French citizens in the eastern Mediterranean.

By Deborah Leter March 21, 2023

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Activists hold up posters in support of Jonathan Pollak at the weekly protest in the Palestinian town of Beita, occupied West Bank, February 3, 2023. (Wahaj Banimoufleh)

The plot to put an Israeli anti-Zionist behind bars

The collusion between police and right-wing groups to indict veteran activist Jonathan Pollak is an alarming escalation that threatens all Jewish dissidents.

By Oren Ziv February 9, 2023

The radical bloc at an anti-government demonstration in Tel Aviv, January 21, 2023. (Oren Ziv)

‘No democracy with apartheid’: Inside the radical bloc at Israel’s anti-gov’t protests

Activists tell +972 that they want to challenge Israeli protesters to look beyond the far-right coalition and see the conditions that enabled its rise.

By Ben Reiff January 25, 2023

Danielle Cantor, left, and Alma Beck, right, founders of Culture of Solidarity. (Alice Austin)

Tel Aviv’s radical left finds a new home

Culture of Solidarity, which began as a mutual aid initiative during lockdown, has grown into a hub for a new generation of activists across many struggles.

By Alice Austin August 26, 2022

A Palestinian woman walks along an unfinished section of the separation barrier in the West Bank town of al-Walaja. (Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

The Israeli Left needs to step up its game

Herzog’s new diplomatic plan goes against the real interests of all those who live between the river and the sea — Jews and Arabs alike. Now it’s up to the Left to come up with a new vision based on real coexistence. The Labor Party committee decided last week that it was officially parting with…

By Noam Sheizaf February 15, 2016

Matzpen ad in Haaretz, 22.9.1967

Matzpen and the story of two ads

A strange historical coincidence had it that on the same day, September 22, 1967 – three months after the Six-Day War, with most of the Israeli public still intoxicated with euphoria – two very different political ads were published in Israeli dailies. One came from the most radical and demonized group in the political fringes, while…

By Noam Sheizaf February 11, 2013

Palestinian and Israeli flags (Wikimedia/public domain)

Anti-normalization and the Israeli Left – a Facebook debate

Could there be a joint political space for radical Jewish leftists and activists in the Palestinian diaspora when anti-normalization is on the rise? Should there be one? Anti-normalization is becoming one of the hottest topics in progressive Israeli and Palestinian circles (ironically, it is not a problem for those elements of society who never been…

By Noam Sheizaf September 9, 2012