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US targets Palestine Action in counterterrorism effort against 'far-left' groups

The move follows Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s push to focus counterterrorism efforts on “far-left terror,” sparking Democratic concerns over the politicization of the fight against extremism.

A person holds up a placard outside the Royal Courts of Justice, on the day judges decide whether the co-founder of Palestine Action can challenge the UK government's ban on the group, in London, Britain, September 25, 2025.
Bob Vylan crowdsurfs in front of the West Holts stage during day four of Glastonbury festival 2025 at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 28, 2025 in Glastonbury, England.

Israel, the DEI exception to 'everyone': How the music industry lost its moral compass - opinion

 President Isaac Herzog and  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pose for a group picture of the then-new government, at the president's residence in Jerusalem, December 29, 2022

What does 'right-wing' actually mean in Israeli politics anymore? - opinion

Many Evangelicals participate in the United for Israel March outside Columbia University in New York City in 2024.

Don’t ignore the similarities between the persecution of Israelis and US Christians - opinion


Progressives, liberals alike perpetuate evil with moral ambivalence - opinion

See no evil: In what universe is there a moral equivalency between ramming a vehicle into people standing at a bus stop and a young person losing his life in a crossfire with terrorists?

 AFTER THE funeral, a mourner crouches at the grave of six-year-old Yaakov Israel Pally, killed in a car-ramming attack in Jerusalem, earlier this month.

Israel needs moderate majority to speak up on judicial reform - opinion

The latest Israeli Democracy Institute poll shows 43% disliking the proposed judicial overhaul, with 31% supporting it.

 PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, last week. Don’t blame Blinken for last week’s low moment in Zionist history, says the writer.

Gadi Taub should celebrate being 'cancelled' - opinion

Taub was informed on Wednesday by the publication, for which he has been writing for more than a decade, that his articles would no longer be welcome.

 Israeli author Gadi Taub speaks at the International Writer's festival in Jerusalem on May 06, 2010.

Tom Friedman’s lies, damned lies and statistics - opinion

No, Tom, Biden ought to be told that the Jewish state isn’t “changing its fundamental character.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Likud’s faction in the Knesset, last week. Threats from the Likud Central Committee may be inserted into the selection procedure for the most important judicial institution in Israel, says the writer.

Israel's democracy is fine - beware Left, Right doom-and-gloomers - opinion

The screeching that Israel is becoming Poland or that the duly-elected government executed some coup d’etat,is disproportionate. Such toxicity poisons the democratic well.

 JUSTICE MINISTER Yariv Levin holds a news conference at the Knesset, last week.

Netanyahu: In a democracy there will be no call to civil riots

Netanyahu talked to President Herzog, stressing that just as the opposition won't be arrested, the coalition shouldn't be compared to the Nazis.

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a government conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on January 8, 2023

New gov't and far-right Americans more dangerous to Israel than radical progressives - opinion

On the Right, any criticism of Israel has increasingly been altogether condemned as antisemitic, a phenomenon that looks suspiciously akin to the cancel culture.

 AN EVANGELICAL supporter prays at an event with then-US president Donald Trump in Miami, in 2020. Evangelical Christians have supported Israel as a means to accelerate Armageddon, says the writer.

Maoz threatens LGBTQ+ Pride parade, women's rights in IDF after deal with Netanyahu

The unit in charge of external programming in the education system will be under the control of far-right MK Avi Maoz.

LGBTQ youth protest against far right Noam party at Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem

Ben-Gvir: Chief of Staff should 'think twice' about punishing Givati soldier

A Givati Brigade soldier has been sentenced to 10 days in prison for his role in the attack of left-wing activists in Hebron.

 Israeli soldiers stand guard during a Palestinian protest near the Jewish settlement of Elon Moreh,east of Nablus, in the West Bank, November 25, 2022.

Father of soldier suspended for Hebron brutality calls son 'hero'

The IDF soldier's father lamented that more focus wasn't being put on the fact that soldiers were being disrupted.

 Israeli troops detain a man during a Palestinian protest over the killing of Palestinian gunmen in an Israeli raid on Wednesday, in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank September 29, 2022