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.

|ByJPOST EDITORIAL
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

Schrödinger’s cat is a famous thought experiment used to describe the complex nature of quantum mechanics, but it can also be used to explain the incoherent nature of antisemites.

|ByODED J.K. FARAN, WALTER E. BLOCK
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

While 59% of Jewish respondents viewed polarization as the greatest threat, only 39% of Arab participants said the same, possibly due to higher Arab sympathy with Palestinians.

|ByLEO FEIERBERG BETTER
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

The women travelled with other volunteers to Burin in the West Bank to participate in the annual olive harvest alongside Palestinian farmers as a "protective presence."

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Democratic Union leader Nitzan Horowitz, champion of the Left

Sitting in the Democratic Union campaign offices in Tel Aviv this week, Horowitz sought to explain why the left-wing has been so bereft of power and influence for so long.

AUGUST 15, 2019ByJEREMY SHARON
Democratic Union leader Nitzan Horowitz

The House gets it right on BDS

"A powerful statement demonstrating that an overwhelming bipartisan majority rejects BDS."

AUGUST 6, 2019ByDANIEL B. SHAPIRO
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) administers the oath of office to House members and delegates of the U.S. House of Representatives at the start of the 116th Congress inside the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 3, 2019

Ideological compromises

Larger parties mean less votes that go to waste for parties that do not cross the 3.25% threshold – Zehut and the New Right are two examples from the last election.

JULY 28, 2019ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Israel Democratic Party's Ehud Barak, MK Stav Shaffir and Meretz's Nitzan Horowitz of the Democratic Camp

Shmuli slams Shaffir, signaling he won't bolt Labor for new left-wing bloc

Blue and White invites him to join

JULY 28, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN
STAV SHAFFIR: The world sees us as only Netanyahu, and his voice is the only voice they hear

Labor will not be joining left-wing bloc, sources say

The Democratic Union was formed on Thursday by Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz, former prime minister Ehud Barak and Labor MK Stav Shaffir.

JULY 28, 2019ByGIL HOFFMAN
Amir Peretz is joined in the Labor Party by Orly Levy-Abekasis.

BDS supporter attacked in Tel Aviv, slashed across face

Jonathan Pollak was attacked in Tel Aviv on Sunday and called a 'fu**ing Leftist' – tells 'Post' he doesn't want any 'Jewish privilege.'

JULY 7, 2019ByHAGAY HACOHEN
Jonathan Pollak after his assault in Tel Aviv

Political polarization feeding antisemitism

Both sides are unaware of being biased. Ideological media contributes to each side, forming its own isolated (and distorted) truth.

JUNE 9, 2019ByGINA ROSS
The Knesset House Committee voting on whether to pass Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bill to cancel ministers limit

The road to replacing the right-wing government

So what can we do? We can re-divide the alternative to a right-wing government into three components.

JUNE 9, 2019ByYANIV SAGEE
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara – who will benefit more from another round of elections?

Leftist prof. praises McDonald's for not opening in settlements

Amir Hetsroni praised McDonald's as "supporting BDS" as he munched on french fries. The Israeli franchise of the fast-food chain has refused to open in Samaria.

JUNE 5, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Signs outside a McDonald's in Tel Aviv protest the refusal of the local franchise to open in Judea and Samaria.

Environmental neglect: the big absurd of nationalist politics

JUNE 4, 2019ByTAL HARRIS
Eagle migration to Israel