The Special Relationship: Shoring Up Declining Sympathy for Israel among Democrats
By Jonathan Rynhold
Jonathan Rynhold relates that while Democrats overwhelmingly hold a favourable view of Israel, the special relationship increasingly rests...
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September 2019
IsraelVotes2019 (2) | Third Elections are Israel's No Deal Brexit
By Eylon Aslan-Levy
Israelis who are completely certain there will not be a third election after just holding a second vote...
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September 2019
IsraelVotes2019 (2) | Israel elections: ‘With Lieberman you can never know for sure what he will do next.’ Analysis from...
By Lahav Harkov
Over the last few elections Israelis have gotten used to the idea that the Likud and the Right...
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September 2019
IsraelVotes2019 (2) | Israel elections: ‘Benjamin Netanyahu may be down but he’s certainly not out.’ Analysis by Shalom Lipner
By Shalom Lipner
Last week’s election results dealt Benjamin Netanyahu a major blow, but although he may be down, he’s certainly...
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September 2019
IsraelVotes2019 (2) | ‘People say he who wields the dagger rarely sits on the throne. Lieberman sees things differently’ |...
By Anshel Pfeffer
Anshel Pfeffer is a leading Israeli journalist and the author of Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of...
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September 2019
IsraelVotes2019 (2) | The Robbed Cossack and the Imaginary Reality of the Right: a rejoinder to Yisrael Medad
By Revital Amiran
A sharp rejoinder from Revital Amiran to Yisrael Medad’s critique of her Fathom article ‘The Zionist Left is...
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September 2019
IsraelVotes2019 (2) | The Knesset and the Court: is this Israel's override election?
By Yohanan Plesner
Yohanan Plesner is President of the Israel Democracy Institute. From 2007 to 2013, he served as a Member...
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September 2019
IsraelVotes2019 (2) | Arab Voters and the 2019 Elections
By Eihab Kadah
Eihab Kadah, Director of Research in Arab society at Midgam Consulting and Research, assesses how Arab voters have...
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September 2019
IsraelVotes2019 (2) | Caught between delegitimisation and non-participation in government: the dilemmas of the Arab voter seeking influence in Israel
By Afif Abu Much
Influenced by Netanyahu’s delegitimisation campaign, the Centre-left is making a critical mistake in not reaching out to the...
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September 2019
IsraelVotes2019 (2) | What should be the priorities for the new government?
By Yossi Kuperwasser
Yossi Kuperwasser argues that whoever forms the next government should adopt a ‘Yes, but’ response to the expected...
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September 2019
IsraelVotes2019 (2) | Israelonomics: an interview with Avi Weiss
By Avi Weiss
Professor Avi Weiss is the former Chief Economist and Deputy Director of the Israel Antitrust Authority and now...
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September 2019
IsraelVotes2019 (2) | Another Israel is possible. But not until Israelis wake up.
By Hamutal Gouri
Hamutal Gouri is the former executive director of the Dafna Fund and the founder of consult4good, a feminist...
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September 2019
IsraelVotes2019 (2) | ‘The Likud understand that they will have to approach Gantz’: an interview with Tal Schneider
By Tal Schneider
Tal Schneider is diplomatic and political correspondent for Globes in Israel and is a former DC correspondent for...
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September 2019
IsraelVotes2019 (2) | 'The Left is finished in Israel.' A reply to Revital Amiran
By Yisrael Medad
Yisrael Medad writes a weekly media column for the Jerusalem Post and serves as a foreign press spokesperson for...
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September 2019
IsraelVotes2019 (2) | Ayman Odeh has made Jewish-Arab political partnership possible. The centre left should seize the opportunity to win...
By Ron Gerlitz
Ron Gerlitz, the Co-Executive Director of Sikkuy, The Association for Civic Equality in Israel, argues that only a...
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September 2019
Poisonous Pedagogy: Israel Hatred and the Collapse of Liberal Education
By William Kolbrener
Professor William Kolbrener reflects on the corrupting and ideologised pedagogy in higher education that is creating ‘a moral...
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September 2019
IsraelVotes2019 (2) | To renew itself, the Left must give up the two-state solution and embrace civil rights and economic...
By Emanuel Shahaf
Emanuel Shahaf is Co-Chair of the Federation Movement which proposes a federal citizen state in Eretz-Israel/Palestine, excluding the...
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September 2019
IsraelVotes2019 (2) | Netanyahu isn’t just a Prime Minister; he represents a paradigm that is here to stay
By Doron Matza
While some analysts believe Israel is approaching a ‘post-Netanyahu era’, Doron Matza argues that regardless of Netanyahu’s personal...
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September 2019
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Adorno’s ‘Today’ – And Ours
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