Left wing israel

Dangerous game: Netanyahu risks Israel’s security to save coalition with draft deal - editorial

Everyday, middle-of-the-road Israelis agree: playing politics with the country’s security is wrong and dangerous.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Communications Minister Shlomo Kahri in the Knesset. Kahri advocates opening up the media market in Israel.
A MEMBER of a neo-Nazi party gives a salute outside a speech by Richard Spencer on the campus of Michigan State University on March 5

Schrödinger’s Jew: How antisemitism is more absurd than quantum mechanics - opinion

 Israelis clash with police during a protest against the decision of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire head of Shin Bat Ronen Bar, in Jerusalem, March 20, 2025.

Most Israelis say social division bigger threat to country than Iranian nuclear threat - poll

Left wing activists and Palestinians plant olive trees in the village of Battir, in the West Bank, on February 14, 2025.

Israel bans two Jewish American women for assisting Palestinian olive harvest in West Bank


Marxist Zionism: Israel's often forgotten socialist past - opinion

Not only is a synthesis between Marxism and Zionism possible, but the practitioners of such a fusion played a noteworthy role in shaping modern Israel

 MERETZ LEADERS and activists celebrate on election night, March 2021. The single largest bloc of votes at Lehavot Habashan went to Meretz.

Israel elections: Likud reaching new lows with Netanyahu in charge, shame - editorial

How did we get to a point where in a major party, the understanding is that to score points one needs to trash-talk and accept this type of behavior?

 Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset on June 30.

Six Day War: What's left of Israel's Left, 55 years later?

The Six Day War that initially led the Labor Party to its biggest victory ever, actually caused its demise.

GOLDA MEIR on the dais at the Mapai-Labor Party conference with (from L) Zalman Shazar, David Ben-Gurion and Giora Yoseftal, Tel Aviv, 1959.

Six Day War: Israel’s Left is alive and kicking, 55 years later

Topics such as gender equality, LGBTQ+ rights and the Arab community have moved into the first few slots, whereas topics like ending the occupation and achieving peace have become less of a priority.

 IN THE 1980s, over 400,000 Israelis protested against the Lebanon War: IDF soldiers who returned from fighting in the First Lebanon War demonstrate in front of prime minister Menachem Begin’s residence in Jerusalem, 1983.

Golan calls right-wing high school student a threat to Israel's security

The student's comments were made during a discussion between grade 12 students and Golan on Zionism and religion.

 Deputy Economy Minister Yair Golan at the Knesset plenum

Israeli building in E1 will thwart Palestinian state, NGOs tell IDF

'Israeli construction on E1 harms Palestine’s future growth potential and therefore closes the door to the possibility of a peace agreement,' architect Uri Reicher told the Civil Administration.

The E1 territory, located outside of Jerusalem and within the jurisdiction of the Ma'aleh Adumim settlement

IDF to hold hearing on contentious E1 settler building project

Left wing organizations, as well as the international community, see the project as harmful to Palestinians, while the right sees it as a security insurance policy.

 View of the desert near Ma'ale Adumim, in the West Bank, January 26, 2021.

Changing ideologies: Three people who changed their worldview

NATIONAL AFFAIRS: It could be a former socialist hippie who became a venture capitalist, a haredi woman who became a fashion mogul, or the son of a Hamas terrorist who became a Zionist.

AN ARMED MAN looks at the Israeli flag in the settlement of Rehelim in 2002, whose founders included now-Peace Now activist Shabtay Bendet.

Politics of guilt: Why does the Left oppose 'occupation' - opinion

Although many in the international community promote a two-state-solution and ending the occupation, they are oblivious to the danger this poses to Israel.

ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN demonstrators argue during a protest in Al-Thaalaba village in 2020.

Bennett, Shaked security levels raised to 2nd highest amid death threats

Labor Party chairwoman Merav Michaeli: "[Netanyahu's] hatred is the main reason why I have always refused to sit with him and why I am so committed to replacing him."

Pro-Netanyahu protesters hold up a sign which says "Leftist traitors" outside the home of Yamina MK Ayelet Shaked in Tel Aviv, May 30, 2021.