Right wing

The perils of Israel’s courtship of Europe’s far Right - opinion

While it may generate tactical support from a handful of governments, it accelerates Israel’s alienation from the European mainstream that actually shapes research cooperation.

|BySHARON PARDO
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a 40 signatures debate, at the plenum hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 19, 2026.
Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli.

Israel’s outreach to far-right nationalists driven by necessity - opinion

Israel is walking a tightrope; engaging with far-right parties might be a short-term strategic necessity, but history says it's a long-term risk.

|ByDOV MAIMON
ISRAELI FAR-RIGHT TikToker Roy Star harasses left-wing activist, January 20, 2026.

Israeli far Right TikToker harasses, pepper sprays activists, invades West Bank home

Star pushed his way into the activist house in Ras al-Auja, ignoring activists' calls that he was trespassing on private property and demanding that he leave.

|ByTZVI JASPER
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Communications Minister Shlomo Kahri in the Knesset. Kahri advocates opening up the media market in 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

German far-right party overhauls youth organization to curb radical ties

German media reported that the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party plans to dissolve its current youth association, the 'Junge Alternative' (JA), replacing it with a new organization.

DECEMBER 3, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Maximilian Krah, Alternative for Germany (AfD) party member and member of the European Parliament of the Identity and Democracy (ID) group, speaks during the European election assembly 2023 of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Magdeburg, Germany, July 29, 2023.

What Israel's Right can learn from leftist protests - opinion

How can the Right create a dynamic community framework like the Left has through protesting?

OCTOBER 20, 2024ByEITAN WACHSPRESS
Anti-judicial overhaul demonstrators protest near the Supreme Court building in Jerusalem, last year. The protest movement generated regular, significant social gatherings, offering its participants a sense of purpose, cohesion, and belonging, says the writer.

A judicial reform will happen in Israel whether we like it or not - opinion

There will be judicial reform. It will likely require several years of bitter conflict before a resolution is reached. The result will be a compromise that is unsatisfactory in some degree to all.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024ByLARRY M. GOLDSTEIN
PROTESTERS CARRY a banner that reads, ‘The people chose judicial reform,’ at a demonstration in support of the government, in Tel Aviv, last year. Perhaps the time has arrived for us to face some hard truths about the reform, the writer suggests.

Diving into the 'wokeness' of the political Right - opinion

The Western way of life is under threat. Liberal democracy is threatened by the undermining of trust in its institutions and its history.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024ByDANIEL GOLDMAN
TUCKER CARLSON speaks at the US Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, in July. Anti-history is now weaponized by Carlson and others to attack expert historians and history itself, the writer asserts.

In these times of change and uncertainty, who will lead the world? - opinion

Radical Leftists, anarchists, LGBTQ, and Islamists make strange bedfellows, in a world where a war is being waged to control the hearts and minds of the younger generation.

JULY 27, 2024ByROBERT HERSOWITZ
An illustrative image of the world being held in someone's hand.

BLM founder: Right-wing pro-Israel activists will cast Harris as antisemitic

Elad Nehorai and Patrisse Cullors warned that right-wing activists will try to undermine Kamala Harris’s presidential bid by accusing her of antisemitism.

JULY 22, 2024ByMICHAEL STARR
US Vice President Kamala Harris meets with President Isaac Herzog in her ceremonial offices at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, US, July 19, 2023

Liberman and Bennett meet to allegedly discuss establishing a new right-wing party

Naftali Bennett and Avigdor Liberman discuss forming a new right-wing party amid ongoing talks, but leadership struggles cause delays.

JULY 17, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
THEN-ALTERNATE prime minister Naftali Bennett and then-finance minister Avigdor Liberman attend a cabinet meeting, in Jerusalem, in July 2022.

Bennett's back: Gideon Saar confirms Naftali Bennett will return to politics

Right-wing politicians hint at political cooperation and the return of former PM Naftali Bennett in a bid to oust Netanyahu at the next elections.

JULY 8, 2024ByANNA BARSKY, BENTZI RUBIN
POTENTIAL NETANYAHU successors? Gideon Sa’ar, Yair Lapid, and Avigdor Liberman meet on Wednesday.

Left-wing New Popular Front coalition leads second round of French parliamentary elections –polls

An Opinionway poll for C News TV said the New Popular Front would win 180-210 seats while an Elabe poll for BFM TV projected a range of 175-205 seats for them.

JULY 7, 2024ByREUTERS
Demonstrators hold French flags and "Popular Union" flags in support of the "Nouveau Front Populaire" (New Popular Front - NFP) as they gather to protest against the French far-right Rassemblement National (National Rally - RN) party. Paris, France, June 30, 2024.

'Everything for Germany': Bjoern Hoecke again fined for using banned Nazi phrase

Björn Höcke was ordered to pay €16,900 for chanting the first two words of the slogan “Everything For Germany,” or “Alles für Deutschland."

JULY 3, 2024ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA, REBECCA SZLECHTER
Bjoern Hoecke, most prominent member of the far-right Alternative for Germany's hard-line wing, arrives for his expected verdict in Halle, Germany, July 1, 2024, on charges of using a banned Nazi slogan at a rally.