Yitzhak Laor
Opinion We’re the Good Folks
Racism isn’t the exclusive province of the right. Racism is the state.
Opinion Who Put Out a Contract on Jeremy Corbyn?
Slander by the right doesn’t justify the Israeli left’s malice and interference in British politics ‘in the name of the Jewish people’
Opinion Netanyahu Upgraded Our Citizenship
The value of Israeli citizenship is declining. And now comes the little prince to upgrade it with the help of the ‘nation-state law’
Opinion Don't Ridicule Netanyahu's 'Iran Lied' Speech
Ridicule only obscures the fact that he's openly trying to help the Trump administration jump-start a mega war with Iran
Opinion The Tragedy of Jewish Nationalism
Jewish nationalism in Israel is a disaster: It requires religion to justify itself, it uses its citizens to trample the Palestinians, and that's just the tip of the iceberg
Opinion Netanyahu and His Government Are Master Panderers of Fear
What really lies behind Israel's desire to send African refugees back to their homelands? Blame it on the Zionist neurosis that the land belongs to the Jews, forever
Opinion Israel's Economy of Swine
Israelis pay more and more out of their pockets for health, a bigger chunk than in any Western country; but capitalism is running rampant here, led by the arrogant Netanyahu government
Opinion The Leader Banging the Drum of Incitement
The right was always more successful at forging links with the people, mainly through incitement; it's a trait shared by prime ministers from Menachem Begin through to Netanyahu
Opinion After 50 Springs
This Passover, like every other one since 1967, Israel will be full of hollow words.
Opinion Cry of the Right: We Are the Unfortunates
The post-politics of the 21st century is characterized by wholesale claims of victimhood. Such is the map of the Western right.
Opinion From Dallas' J.R. to Trump
The first villainous character whom Americans learned to admire was J.R. from the TV show 'Dallas.' He was Trump’s father, Yankee Doodle as the lord and master.
Opinion An Art Critic's Dying Wish: Eulogize Me as a Difficult Woman
Although she wanted to be remembered as a 'hard woman,' Galia Yahav was also a good-hearted woman who was passionate about art.
The Price an Unwavering Israeli Leftist Paid for Conscientious Objection
Uri Avnery always saw himself as a foreign minister without a government, not a political activist. His memoir is a type of consolation for his political isolation.
Opinion The Real Message Behind Netanyahu's 'Ethnic Cleansing' Speech
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent actions have brought to an end 50 years of Israeli deception about the temporariness of the settlement enterprise.
Welcome, Kids, to the First Day of Becoming Israel-loving Dolts
Our state does not need teachers. It needs agents, and on the cheap. You too, children, will become agents.
The New Environmental Degradation That's Present in Israel
A new phenomenon has surfaced, and it's not only wild animals who are facing extinction. It's also thought, dialectics and literature.
Netanyahu, the Father of the Israeli Nation and Its Orphans
The country's sad state of affairs tends to entrench 'the people' in racist and nationalist clichés. Thus, under Netanyahu’s watch, the volk came to power.
A Few Lessons About Mizrahi Poets Won't Solve Anything
The proposal to teach Mizrahi culture in Israel's schools won't fix the bigger problem of how Jews of Middle Eastern origin have been pushed to the margins of Israeli society.
The Populist Right's Main Characteristic: The Desire to Silence the Forgotten People
It seems as if the only place where there is still a left that hasn’t capitulated to the rule of ego is the Communist Party, which preserves the flame of political logic. But it’s too little.
Summing Up the Glories of the Israeli Occupation as We Enter Its 50th Year
This is what remains: hatred. And for that we thank everyone who was in favor of going into that war and who postponed the end. Now is the life after death, like vampires.
Israel's Fundamental Irresponsibility
The State of Israel was never a state of law - Law with a capital 'L,' the backbone of every democracy, but rather a state in which 'someday there will be law.'
The Palestinian War of Independence
After having periodically repulsed it, we are once again in the midst of the Palestinian War of Independence.
Only Religious Nationalism Can Prop Up Israel's Colonial Principle
For a country to truly devastate its environs with consistency, it needs drones that kill indiscriminately, without feelings of remorse, and a Spartanism that only nationalist religion can provide.
Who Needs Fascism in Israel?
The real crisis of democracy is when the people watch the news but do nothing.
Soviet Spy Marcus Klingberg, of Blessed Memory, Stood on the Wrong Side of History
The Soviet spy stood at the major crossroads of Jewish history on the 'wrong' side, and did so with courage and genius. With pride.
Let's Not Turn the West Into a Temple Under Siege
What was the U.S. administration thinking when it armed and trained the jihadists, including Osama bin Laden, in their war against the Soviets in Afghanistan?
We, the Sheeple of Israel
The Israeli passivity disappears only when the possibility of a mob beating arises. Give the herd a weak enemy and the sheep becomes a biting dog.