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Israelis are angry, resilient, and ready to reject the West’s narrative - opinion

The reality is that Israelis are neither crushed nor dispirited. Instead, they are appropriately angry and motivated to win against all enemies.

Israelis attend a national memorial ceremony marking three years since the October 7 massacre at the Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv on Wednesday.
JEWS ARE seen protesting against Israel and demanding Palestinian statehood recognition, in August 2025.

Progressive Jews embracing ‘craziest’ ideologies are ‘no longer our friends,’ Israeli scholar says

Lawrence Shenkin stands at a protest.

Israeli gov't's betrayal of Zionism: Aliyah is not a privilege for the Right alone - opinion

Religious IDF Israeli soldiers pray during a training of the Ultra-Orthodox Unit at the Givati Brigade near the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, September 27, 2017.

The ‘Jews vs Israelis’ lie: Right does not own Judaism, and the Left has not abandoned it - opinion


Diplomats harassed by Israeli settlers during West Bank tour - EU

Footage from the scene showed the left-wing and right-wing activists scuffling and shouting at each other.

 Israeli settlers hurl stones at Palestinians during the annual harvest season near the Israeli settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank on October 7, 2020.

Labor 'finished its role' in Israeli politics, Michaeli must resign - Omer Bar Lev

"It began when the party decided to lower its security flag to half-mast," the former IDF Sayeret Matkal commander lamented.

 Labor party leader MK Merav Michaeli leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on July 17, 2023

Israel's intellectually dishonest Left must return to sanity - opinion

To my leftist brethren, I say: Please stop being intellectually dishonest. Stop talking about an “end to democracy” when you are the ones trying to overturn the results of the last election.

 DEMONSTRATORS LIGHT a bonfire during an anti-judicial reform protest in Tel Aviv.

Left-wing antisemitism is a growing threat - opinion

For too long, antisemitism from some elements of the political Left in Europe has been excused as “just criticism of Israel” or not worthy of attention. It must be fought and rejected.

 DEMONSTRATORS IN Berlin hold a poster with a drawing of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that reads ‘The King of Apartheid,’ while protesting against Netanyahu’s visit to Germany earlier this year.

Israel needs to reach a judicial reform compromise - editorial

The participants were not all cut of the same cloth: They came from the Right and the Left and included those in favor of the reform and those opposed.

 Pro-judicial reform protesters cover up the "Democracy Square" sign in Tel Aviv. July 23, 2023

Herzog speech boycotted: Left-wing politicians snub J Street again - opinion

No matter how hard J Street tries, no matter how many times J Street defends or praises Bowman, Omar, or Ocasio-Cortez, their wing of the Democratic Party simply hates Israel.

 US REP. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez glances from behind (left) at Rep. Ilhan Omar, after Omar was ousted by the Republican-led House of Representatives from serving on the Foreign Affairs Committee, earlier this year.

Settler rioters as sweet boys? Not! - opinion

To the left and the right everyone is making a mess in Israeli politics. Ironically, IDF soldiers, who are much younger than the Knesset members in charge, are forced to act as the nation's adults.

 NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir addresses a parliamentary faction meeting of his Otzma Yehudit Party in the Knesset last week. It is horrifying, watching the national security minister undermine security, says the writer.

Antisemitism is neither uniquely from the Right or Left - opinion

Not only must we call out antisemitism when we see it in others, but when we see it emanating from our political party, as well.

 US SPECIAL Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt speaks at a news conference during a meeting of envoys and coordinators on countering antisemitism, in Berlin, earlier this year.

Buttressing the middle: Israelis must unite to box out 'zealots'

NATIONAL AFFAIRS: In an ugly skirmish for dominance, the Zionist parties on the Right and Left aligned with the fringes.

 A PROTEST OUTSIDE Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Jerusalem home.

Rothman escorted out of World Zionist Congress after anti-reform protests

The World Zionist Congress has been rocked by arguments between the right and left surrounding the judicial reform.

 MK Simcha Rothman attends a committee meeting at the Knesset, January 17, 2023.