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Israeli Poll: Israelis Support Ethnic Cleansing, Annexation and Apartheid State
Yediot graphic juxtaposes Israeli ID with Kach party emblem, a closed fist, for an article on the threat of Jewish fascism A new poll (if anyone can find the full poll results please let me know) of...
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Survey of Israeli Racism: 58% of Jews Label Their State ‘Apartheid’
Yesterday, I wrote a post about an Israeli survey by Prof. Camil Fuchs, one of Israel’s leading pollsters, that examined Israeli Jewish attitudes toward ethnic and religious identity, racism and other...
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IDF Police Interrogate, Gag Blogger, Demand Whistleblower’s Identity
Before beginning this post, I want to note that there is a great deal we don’t know about this case thanks to the Israeli police’s pressure on the victim to maintain silence. But here, I’ll say what I...
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Israel’s Creeping Criminalization of Democratic Rights
Kobi Snitz remonstrating with IDF at West Bank anti-Wall protest A few days ago, Amira Hass wrote a story in Haaretz about a Shabak interrogation of Israeli peace activist, Kobi Snitz. Snitz is a...
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Haaretz Goes Arab
Haaretz historical Arabic eidtorial Undoubtedly, Israeli settlers and ultra-nationalists who dare to read Haaretz will think its editors have finally “gone native.” That they’ve shown their true...
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Knesset Plans to Raise Election Threshhold, Oust Palestinian Parties
Election billboard for MK Haneen Zoabi and her Israeli Palestinian party In the past few days, Haaretz reported that all the major coalition partners in the incoming government have agreed that one of...
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Israeli Democracy Index: Israelis Believe Jews Should be Privileged, Non-Jews...
Beitar Jerusalem soccer club fans unfurl Kahanist banner, shouting anti-Arab slogans The Israel Democracy Institute released its latest Democracy Index (summary and full findings), which I’ve covered...
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Israel and Egypt’s Junta, Birds of a Feather
The NY Times published a strange story today. It recounts that Israel expressed dismay at Obama’s cut-off of military aid to Egypt in light of the military junta’s massacre of hundreds of unarmed...
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The Israeli Far-Right’s One-State Solution
I was reading this article which recounted a statement by an Israeli government minister, who declared his support for the one-state solution. No, he wasn’t a member of Hadash or even Meretz, he was a...
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The Slow, Agonizing Death of Israeli Media
Many liberals proudly point to Israel’s argumentative, boisterous press as a sign of the vitality of Israeli democracy. If they are still doing this, they’re talking about a bygone era. Press freedom...
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Someone Tell Amos Schocken, Israel Isn’t a “Constitutional Democracy”
One of my betes noire is the pablum pawned off on Jews and non-Jews by liberal Zionists, which passes for serious analysis of the Israeli society and its conflict with the Arab world. Such an example...
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Shabak Child Torturers Exposed: Revenge of the Nerds
Israeli arrests of Palestinian children like those tortured by the Shin Bet as portrayed in Noam’s blog posts. Noam R. writes the blog O139 (the title refers to October 1, 1939, the date the Nazis...
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‘BDS and the Future of Israel-Palestine’ Panel Discussion
Last week, the organized Jewish community hosted a very unfunny roast of BDS entitled, Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Campaign Against Israel: Bad for Jews in Seattle and Beyond. It was a full house...
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Israel Murders IDF Soldier to Prevent His Capture
I’ve devoted a good deal of my life to Israel. I’ve studied, read, visited, lived, breathed it. Not in the way diehard pro-Israel fanatics do. But in a different way that matched my own intellectual...
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Haaretz Censors Interview Reporter Conducted With Me
Debra Nussbaum Cohen, willingly-censored Haaretz journalist (PBS) About two weeks ago, Debra Nussbaum-Cohen sent me an urgent e-mail saying she was on deadline for a Haaretz story and wanted to...
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Israel’s Supreme Court Affirms Book-Ban After Publication
Noam Solberg, Israel’s first settler Supreme Court justice, and reigning judicial literary critic! In an unprecedented violation of basic guarantees of free expression in a so-called democracy, last...
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If Israel Outlaws Palestinian Political Voices, Declare One State
I have an idea. It’s perhaps a bit far-fetched. It may not be realistic for a thousand reasons. Not to mention that the Shabak may arrest anyone who proposes it seriously in Israel. But before I...
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Saban Tells Israel to Bomb Iranian “Sons of Bitches,” Adelson Says If Israel...
The two largest donors to a new pro-Israel lobbying group, the Israeli-American Council, addressed its first national conference today. They called for Israel to pursue an implacable, hawkish,...
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Israel and the Rise of Judeo-Fascism
Well I see a bad moon rising Yeah I see the end coming soon Well I hear earthquakes and lightning Yeah I hear the voice of rage and ruin Well don’t go out tonight It’s bound to take your life Yeah...
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Standwithus Fundraiser Honors Israeli Ex-MK and Local “Liberal” Rabbi, Local...
Einat Wilf glumly contemplates the fate of the Jewish state. (Israel National TV) The Pacific NW chapter of StandWithUs will hold its annual fundraising event this month here in Seattle. It will...
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