Liberal

Growing contradictions at the heart of Israel’s liberal camp - opinion

Israeli liberal leaders push policies that clash with democratic principles, showing differing ways of how they treat different communities.

An illustrative image of a reporter for Army Radio (Galei Tzahal) taken in 2019.
Palestinian port authority holds passports of passengers to show the press that they are leaving Gaza legally.

Liberal Zionist groups criticize Trump’s travel ban on those with Palestinian Authority passports

THE KNESSET plenum meets this week. Israel’s rules of the game are not anchored in a constitution and can be changed by a simple Knesset majority, the writer notes.

Thin constitution needed to stabilize the government amid political crisis - opinion

A PALESTINIAN FLAG is attached to a traffic light as a rally takes place to challenge the UK government’s banning of Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws, in Parliament Square, last month. Europe finds itself entangled with radical Islam, says the writer.

Israel advances coexistence while Europe ignores the clash of civilizations - opinion


Women of the Wall have become an oppositional force - opinion

Even if initially their intentions could be viewed with some positivity, today they have become an oppositional body.

 Women of the Wall celebrate after regrouping at the Egalitarian Section of the Western Wall in 2019.

Israel's biggest issues are settlers, haredi birthrate, liberals leaving - opinion

This scenario is too horrifying to contemplate, so most Israelis do not. Yet Israel has the classic characteristics of societies that are at risk of civil war.

 IDF SOLDIERS STAND close to the scene of an attack by a Palestinian assailant near Neve Tzuf, in the West Bank, on Tuesday.

How reality surprised theory in the reform protests - opinion

Under certain conditions, not only is there no contradiction but, on the contrary, nationalistic loyalty strengthens the commitment to liberal and democratic values.

 MEMBERS OF the Brothers in Arms reservist movement meet with the media in Tel Aviv, in March.

The Palestinian flag should not be a contentious symbol - opinion

In the center of the group were several people holding the black, white, green and red Palestinian flags.

 AMID THE more than 10,000 protesters was a group of about 200 Israeli Jews surrounding a large sign that said: ‘First they took the Palestinian flag and I didn’t speak out.'

World Zionist Congress adopts resolutions against Israel's judicial reform

The World Zionist Organization concluded a three day online voting procedure, on proposals that were suggested at the special World Zionist Congress last month.

 World Zionist Organization executive chairman Yaakov Hagoel at the 125th anniversary event for the First Zionist Congress.

The awakening of the Fifth Sector in Israel - opinion

Some call it the State of Tel Aviv and assumed that it has more loyalty toward Silicon Valley, the editorial stance of The New York Times, and post-modern ideas than Israel.

 A PROTEST against the government’s planned judicial overhaul takes place in Tel Aviv, in March. Did Prime Minister Netanyahu underestimate the response of the Start-Up Nation?

Two of UK’s progressive Jewish movements announced a merger

Reform Judaism sees itself as a movement that is traditional but up-to-date with modernity. Liberal Judaism in the UK is quite similar but has become more radical and modern.

 Rabbi Charley Baginsky and Rabbi Josh Levy.

Liberal American Jews, you need to support dialogue in Israel - opinion

Relations between American Jews and Israel have also been subjected to these rising tensions when compromises seem unachievable and the concept of the common good is eroded.

 A DEMONSTRATION takes place outside the US Embassy Branch in Tel Aviv against the government’s judicial overhaul and in support of President Joe Biden’s criticism of the plan, on Thursday.

Conservativism vs liberalism, past vs present wrongs - opinion

Liberalism takes the past more seriously than conservatism.

 THE US and Israeli flags fly at Ben-Gurion Airport ahead of President Joe Biden’s arrival in July. The writer asks: ‘How will young Americans view Israel’s relationship with the US – a strategic asset, or a threat?’

Progressives, liberals alike perpetuate evil with moral ambivalence - opinion

See no evil: In what universe is there a moral equivalency between ramming a vehicle into people standing at a bus stop and a young person losing his life in a crossfire with terrorists?

 AFTER THE funeral, a mourner crouches at the grave of six-year-old Yaakov Israel Pally, killed in a car-ramming attack in Jerusalem, earlier this month.