Yisrael Beitenu

A Jewish Israeli man shouts at Palestinians while waving the Israeli flag in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem on Jerusalem Day, June 2, 2008. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Voting Netanyahu out is not going to ‘save’ Israel-Palestine

Israeli citizens are about to vote in national elections for the second time in six months. But has anything changed since April? Why is no one talking about the occupation? And are we really about to see the end of the Netanyahu era? +972 writers talk about why these elections matter. Israeli voters will head to the…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland September 15, 2019

King Hussein of Jordan lights Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's cigarette at the Royal Residence in Aqaba, Jordan, shortly after signing the peace treaty at the Arava Border Crossing. (photo: GPO)

The three bullets that killed Israel’s left-wing bloc

Without the Arab citizens there is no ‘left-wing bloc’ in Israeli politics. The only problem? The inclusion of Arabs was what led the Right to violently bring down the Left in the first place. By Lev Grinberg Since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, there have been no political blocs in Israel. No Left and no…

By +972 Magazine February 25, 2015

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking in front of Israeli flags, July 20, 2014. (Photo by Haim Zach / GPO)

Israel’s elections: A referendum on Netanyahu

The coalition is falling apart, and the Knesset is likely to agree on early elections soon. Current polls suggest we are heading toward a fourth Netanyahu government, which will be even more right wing than the current one. Netanyahu’s third government has reached its end. New elections, which seemed likely when the Gaza war ended,…

By Noam Sheizaf December 2, 2014

Latest

Sign to Susya, with Arabic blacked out (Yuval Ben Ami)

New law would demote Arabic language in the name of ‘social cohesion’

Members of Knesset say law builds a ‘collective identity’ that will preserve the ‘values of democracy.’ By Orly Noy A group of MKs from Yisrael Beiteinu, Likud and Jewish Home recently submitted a bill that calls to rescind the status of Arabic as an official language in Israel. On its own, the bill is neither out…

By Orly Noy August 26, 2014

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman (Israeli/IMFA)

The Bibi-Lieberman deal: A wake-up call to the world about Israel

By unifying himself and the country’s ruling party with an internationally despised neo-fascist, Netanyahu has brought Israel a sizable step closer to the limits of Western tolerance. Ultimately, that’s good news. The only way Israel is ever going to give up the occupation and its habit of military aggression is by going too far –…

By Larry Derfner October 25, 2012

Israeli Foreign Minister and chairman of Israel Beitenu, Avigdor Lieberman (photo: Israel IMFA / flickr)

Why isn’t Lieberman capitalising on the women’s rights issue?

Avigdor Lieberman’s party, Yisrael Beitenu, owes much of its clout to flying the secularist banner and opposing the growing religious influence over Israeli public life. So why aren’t they standing up against gender segregation? Put simply, they now have much bigger fish to fry. The subject of segregation between men and women in Israeli public…

By Dimi Reider December 19, 2011

Bibi backs law to ban loudspeakers at mosques (!!!)

“We don’t have to be more liberal than Europe,” says Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Believe it or not, Bibi wants to prohibit mosques from using loudspeakers to broadcast the muezzin’s daily calls to prayer – which, as everyone knows, is the identifying sound of the Middle East, where Israel reportedly is located. According to Haaretz, Netanyahu told Likud cabinet ministers on Sunday: The same problem…

By Larry Derfner December 12, 2011

Upheaval! Knesset neo-fascists taking a beating

Latest blow: Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein tells Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu he won’t defend anti-NGO bills in Supreme Court. In all the (well-placed) wailing over the totalitarian legislation being pushed in the Knesset by the Likud and Yisrael Beitenu, the good guys don’t seem to have noticed that all their wailing has had a tremendous…

By Larry Derfner December 7, 2011

When ‘unsuitable’ becomes a synonym for ‘Arab’

The original version of this article contained a racist slur in both the headline and text. Following an editorial review, the headline has been changed and the expletive struck out from the body of the text.

By Ami Kaufman October 27, 2010