Is a genuine Israeli nationality taking shape?
- Eric Walberg Эрик Уолберг إيريك ولبر
For long, Israelis have despised diaspora Jews as weaklings, fraidy cats, too lazy to come to live (and fight) in the Jewish Homeland. But, imperialism -- Israel is the last of that dying breed -- needs constant growth, more bodies to exploit, to fight ...
Shame on you, America
UNRWA's wrong business model
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
The United States has spent hundreds of billions on unnecessary wars, but only the UN relief agency for the Palestinians is improperly run
Mohammad Sabaaneh
Now it’s out in the open: America has declared ...
Israel has no right to self-defense against Gaza
- Norman Finkelstein - Jamie Stern-Weiner
Israel has no legal right to use any kind of force in Gaza — under any circumstances.
Lior Mizrahi / Getty Images
Since the overwhelmingly nonviolent demonstrations in Gaza began on March 30, 2018, the international community has strongly condemned ...
The 'Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People': full text
- TLAXCALA ΤΛΑΞΚΑΛΑ ТЛАКСКАЛА تلاكسكالا 特拉科斯卡拉
Knesset members approved on 19 July 2018 a law that officially defines Israel as the Jewish nation-state, voting the bill through in its second and third plenary readings by 62-55, with two abstentions. The law for the first time enshrines Israel as ...
Who the hell are we?
On Israel's Jewish nation-state law
- Uri Avnery أوري أفنيري אורי אבנרי (1923-2018)
This text, published last 4 August, is the last of the weekly columns published for 20 years by Uri Avnery, first in the daily Maariv and then on the website of Gush Shalom, the Israeli Bloc of Peace he founded. Uri Avnery died in Tel Aviv on Monday ...
The South African model: make Israel's Druze 'honorary Jews'
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
Thanks to the Druze community's protest against the nation-state law, two basic truths were uncovered that can no longer be concealed
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Sheikh Muwaffak Tarīf (2nd-Right), the spiritual leader of Israel's ...
Keep It Up, Ahed Tamimi
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
Now it must be said to her, days before her scheduled release after eight months in prison: It was worth it. Keep up the resistance to the Israeli occupation
"Ahedna", Our Ahed
On Sunday you’re supposed to get out of prison, ...
The march of folly
- Uri Avnery أوري أفنيري אורי אבנרי
ONE CAN look at events in Gaza through the left or through the right eye. One can condemn them as inhuman, cruel and mistaken, or justify them as necessary and unavoidable.
But there is one adjective that is beyond question: They are stupid.
If the ...
Israel's LGBT Strike of the Pampered
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
The community has come by its power honestly – and become powerful, well-connected and fashionable. Not the Arab community, though
Protest against the surrogacy law in Tel Aviv, July 19, 2018. Photo Ilan Assayag
Another fun day ...
Arabic was an official language in Israel for 70 years, 2 months, and 5 days
- Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
You can look at the new Jewish Nation-State Law from two angles: the message it sends to Jews, and the message it sends to Palestinians — you don’t belong here.
Arabic was an official language of the State of Israel for 70 years, two months, ...
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