Israel Claims That the Palestinian Village of Walaja Doesn’t Exist

Last week, in his speech to the UN Assembly General, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett didn’t mention the Palestinians. When cornered to say something...

Netanyahu Is Crafting an Alternative Reality

A right-wing demonstration was held in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Thursday, and participation was estimated at about 30 people and a dog. But this...

Missing Uri Avnery, a Warrior for Peace. If Only We Had Listened to You More

Three years ago, we lost Uri Avnery, an indefatigable fighter for peace and against the perpetual state of war in which we are mired for our own...

Look Who's Been Suspiciously Quiet About the Palestinian Jailbreak

If you haven’t heard anything from one of our biggest blabbermouths, Lawmaker Amir Ohana (Likud), regarding last week’s jailbreak, it’s for good...

A Year of Recovery From Netanyahu

The past year was a year of recovery from 12 years of Benjamin Netanyahu. He weakened our democratic institutions, as indicated by the State...

The Israeli Military Has Declared Itself a Gang

Last week a soldier in a Golani Brigade battalion decided to stop a tour in Hebron for lawmakers from the Joint List, although the tour had been...

Israel Is Turning Into the Republic of Gilead

During Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said the president had become a victim of a “vast right-wing...

Israel Needs Antibodies Against anti-LGBT Smotrich

No one should be surprised by the contempt from Bezalel “Parade of Beasts” Smotrich, the far-right leader who said the current COVID wave stemmed...

Israel Fights Against Its Finest Sons: Ex-soldiers Who Dare Speak Up

The Tax Authority surrendered to the pressure of right-wing organizations and demanded the removal from its building of signs posted by Breaking the...

After 12 Years of Insanity, Bennett-Lapid Government Restoring Normalcy to Israel After 12 Years of Insanity, the New Government Is Restoring Normalcy to Israel

The Bennett-Lapid government is giving a lot of bellyaches to Israeli humanists. It approved the Flag March, a useless provocation; it signed a...

To Reform Israel's Rabbinical Courts, Women's Voice Must Be Heard

The opposition shot down the coalition’s bill on religious court judges last week, and the media was preoccupied with a marginal issue: the fact...

Let the Sunshine in and Open Commissions of Inquiry Sessions to the Public

Monday is the 15th anniversary of the start of the Second Lebanon War, in which 49 Israeli civilians and 121 soldiers were killed. It has become a...

Gender Segregation at Jerusalem's Hebrew University Is Just the Start

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem was founded in 1918 to enable Jewish intellectuals to flourish and to free them from the burden of the numerus...

Battle for Women’s Dignity Is on in Knesset

Coalition whip Idit Silman (Yamina) last week found herself under attack from the misogynist wing of the Knesset, headed by Bezalel Smotrich...

There's Something Other Than Security Behind Israel's Citizenship Law

During the next two weeks, the Knesset is expected to vote on the Citizenship and Entry Into Israel Law (Temporary Provision), which has been renewed...

Lehava, the Lynching and the Nation-state Law

A straight line connects the terrible scenes of the lynching in Bat Yam and the nation-state law. Incitement on the part of far-right organization...

An Arab Police Chief in Israel, Now

The events of this past week are threatening the ability of Jewish and Arab Israelis to live together. The situation is so dire, that it is forcing us...

Human Beings Are Able to Talk, Not Only to Carry a Club

One of the myths being disseminated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s PR people – with unparalleled PR – is that he is a cautious leader,...

Netanyahu Is No Magician – and He Never Was One

So Benjamin Netanyahu’s mandate to form a government expired. He couldn’t pull one rodent or another out of his hat, like a successful...

Netanyahu Wants a Weak Shin Bet Head

About two weeks ago, the prime minister tried to appoint his eunuch, National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat, chief of the Shin Bet security...

We Know the Road to Treblinka

The Noam faction entered the Knesset surreptitiously this week, under the wings of Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism party, a party promoted with...

The anti-Netanyahu Bloc Has One Option: Get Behind Lapid

The most annoying phenomenon witnessed since the 2021 election (hopefully not the 2021 election Part 1) is the rise of leaders of small parties with a...

Not Just to Save It: Five Reasons to Vote Meretz in Israel's Election

Over the past few weeks quite a few people have asked me: Zehava, why vote Meretz? But please, no oy gevalt! . They’ve been driving us crazy with...

Time to Throw Avigdor Lieberman in the Dustbin of History, Where He Belongs

Gantz, You're No Longer in the Army. Enough With Military Thinking

Gaza, COVID Vaccines and One of the Most Disgraceful Hearings Ever Held by Knesset

Zvi Hauser’s Disgraceful Knesset Hearing

Cruelty Is in High Demand, Israel's Police Minister Learns From Trump

Netanyahu’s Ministry of Truth

Silence in the Face of Demolition and Pogroms

It's Time for Israel Police to Remember They Work for the Citizens

The Late Yossi Sarid Was a Leftist Back When Values Meant Something in Israel

Netanyahu Learnt the Lesson of Rabin's Assassination. The Israeli Left Should Too

Israel's Right Is in a Morally Critical Condition

Amazing What Israel Can Achieve When It Doesn't Take Innocent People Into Account

Protesting Netanyahu Out: Nobody’s Going to Do It for Us

Don’t Collaborate in the Politics of Distraction