Elections 2019

How the UK Labour Party became a hotbed of antisemitism

Corbyn was an obscure Labour backbencher whose focus was on foreign policy and, in the run-up to the 2015 party primaries, was thought not to have met the 15 percent threshold.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn makes a campaign speech in Battersea, England, Oct. 31, 2019.
VOTERS AND TELLERS outside a polling station inside Menorah Primary School in Golders Green, London.

British Affairs: Brexit, antisemitism and Britain

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks during general election campaign event in Swindon, Britain November 2, 2019

Corbyn rejected by prominent historian of Nazi Germany

A demonstrator carries a sign as teachers and students take part in a protest demanding immediate political change in Algiers, Algeria March 13, 2019

Algeria jails artist ahead of Dec. 12 elections


Center Field: Bibi ‘habayta’ – go home with a pardon, not to jail

Another big Bibi lie claims that the elections were unclear, as he threatens triggering a third election.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi, Russia September 12, 2019.

Netanyahu guilty of ‘racist hate speech,’ Palestinians tell UNHRC

The UNHRC is mandated to hold a debate on alleged Israeli human rights violations during each of its meetings, which occur three times a year.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls for people in Jerusalem to go and vote.

Arab party member admits they met with Likud to negotiate in radio prank

Yahya confirmed that Mansour Abbas, Natan Eshel and Miki Zohar met before the dissolving of the Knesset.

Abd al Hakim Hajj Yahya of Raam Balad party, April, 2019

Was Netanyahu-Gantz impasse predicted in mystic's hidden manuscript?

"On the eve of the year 5780 (the upcoming Hebrew year), the year of corrections, there will not be a government in Israel for an extended period..."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri meet at prime minister's office, Sept. 1997

Netanyahu 55, Gantz 54 as President Reuven Rivlin concludes consultations

President Reuven Rivlin is set to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz at 6:30 p.m. to announce which of them will form the next government.

President Rivlin hosted the end of the year event for "Israeli Hope Standard"

Joint List endorses Gantz without Balad, giving Netanyahu majority

Blue and White decides to forego first shot to form government

President Reuven Rivlin has Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz shake hands at memorial ceremony for former president Shimon Peres

Rivlin to present 'options the public hasn't even heard of' to form gov't

Harel Tobi explained that, according to Israeli law, the president has the option of giving the task of forming the government to the MK "with the highest chance" of succeeding.

President Reuven Rivlin has Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz shake hands at memorial ceremony for former president Shimon Peres

Grapevine: Palestinians and the justice system

Pascal N’zonzi, Motti Verses, Philippe de Chaueron and Ary Abittan reunite last week in Tel Aviv for the Israeli premiere of ‘Lama Ze Magia Li?’

Liberman: 'We'll know how to take care of ourselves in the opposition, too'

The leader of Yisrael Beytenu also noted that Ultra-Orthodox parties no longer refer to him as Hitler.

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman

Netanyahu calls on Gantz to form unity government

"Netanyahu is having difficulty accepting his loss, and is trying to disguise Blue and White's victory as the largest party and say there is no clear decision."

Tension was evident between Blue and White leader Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the opening of the Knesset’s new session on April 30