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.

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

 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

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


A judicial revolution - Shaked's answer to claims of fascism

Shaked sprays the perfume in the air, quipping: “To me, it smells like democracy.”

Ayelet Shaked at a meeting, January 17th, 2019

ACRI asks High Court to order IDF to indict Col. who killed fleeing Palestinian rock-thrower

Left-wing groups charge shooting the suspect while he was fleeing was not necessary. But rocks thrown by Palestinians have killed soldiers and civilians in the past, defenders argue.

Palestinian rock-throwers attack Israeli troops near Bethlehem

Editor's Notes: Why is ‘Left’ an Israeli curse word?

In other words, reporting the news – and boy, was it news – is what makes you immoral and a leftist? Have we gone crazy?

Left wing protesters in Tel Aviv

Kotel fighting

Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid and Moshe Ya’alon would likely not act differently when facing the same dilemma.

Western Wall Plaza.

A conflict of identities

How neglect and denial lead to refusing an adversary’s sense of peoplehood

Druze-Israelis protest the Nation-State Law

Center Field: Who’s afraid of the big bad Left?

We were among the few Jews in New York who celebrated when Menachem Begin won in 1977 – we were among the few who even knew who he was.

Moshe Ya’alon, Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid and Gabi Ashkenazi announce the formation of their joint party, Blue and White, in Tel Aviv on February 21st, 2019

High Court: No blocking scientist appointment because of political views

Scientist with left-wing views was initially blocked from government appointment by Minister Ofir Akunis.

Ofir Akunis at the JPost Annual Conference 2017

Jerusalem activist sending English books to Gaza

The Gaza BookLift program sends English books from Israel to Gaza, but Hamas authorities make sure to remove any Hebrew labeling first.

A demonstrator wearing a mask at the back of his head holds a Palestinian flag during a protest near the Israel-Gaza border fence, in the southern Gaza Strip December 21, 2018.

UN investigators urge Netanyahu to protect B’Tselem

The rapporteurs sent the letter to Netanyahu in December, but was made public by the UN only this week.

Hagai El-Ad, Executive Director of B'Tselem, a leading Israeli human rights organisation, poses in his office in Jerusalem December 16, 2015. An ultra-nationalist Israeli group has published a video accusing the heads of four of Israel's leading human rights organizations, including "B'Tselem", of b

As I See It: The unique disorder of hatred now destroying the Left

No apology can ever expunge the evil of antisemitism.

Demonstrators take part in protests outside a meeting of the National Executive of Britain's Labour Party which discussed the party's definition of antisemitism, in London, Britain, September 4, 2018