The protests roiling Israel represent a struggle over its future. The traditional elite is in an existential fight to maintain power, while the ascendant religious-nationalist majority seeks to redefine the state.
Movements and parties grapple with democracy, cost-of-living and shifting power arrangements
While US media fixated on Russian interference in the 2016 election, an Israeli secret agent’s campaign to influence the outcome went unreported.
In an attempt to salvage Israel's Jewish state rule, Israeli president Isaac Herzog presented an alternative to the Netanyahu government's planned judicial overhaul, which Netanyahu rejected outright.
Reports on mass workers action in France, Italy and UK, and a hard look at the politics of climate rescue
The UN statement in question is just that: a statement, with no tangible value and no legal repercussions.
Israel has erected “a formal, full-fledged apartheid regime,” the editorial of Haaretz newspaper said yesterday, in a stark warning about the direction of the occupation state.
Israeli democracy is in danger, demonstrations include very few Palestinians. It’s not a movement for equal rights. It’s a movement to preserve the political system that existed before the coalition took power - to save liberal democracy for Jews.
Taking over the culture and media industry by the government goes hand in hand with efforts to limit the power of the courts. One cannot maintain a democracy for its citizens along with military dictatorship for its noncitizens, without consequences.
A leading Israeli think tank warns the country's “special relationship” with the US is in danger due to a progressive shift among American Jews, which poses a strategic threat to Israel.
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