Politics & Society

This land is your land, this land is my land

A new bill would grant traditional agricultural settlements ownership over 90% of their lands, with the other 10% going to nearby development towns.

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A new (leftist) savior to rise from these streets

There’s a buzz in the sidewalk cafes of greater Tel Aviv this week, as we saw politic’s future and its name is General Gabi Ashkenazi.

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Peace by the numbers

A new poll commissioned by the energetic, leftist think-tank Molad, suggests a new strategy for ending the right’s grip on power.

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The Way Home (Road Trip!)

Social protest leader Daphni Leef and singer-songwriter Yael Deckelbaum are planning a politically-motivated, crowd-funded road-trip across Israel.

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The wages of politicization

The newly more-politicized “Judicial Appointment Committee” met this week, and Likud MK Nurit Koren caused a stir with her appointment suggestion.

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Israel and the “A Word”

Haaretz columnist and mensch Bradley Burston wrote an essay entitled “It’s Time to Admit it. Israeli Policy is What it Is: Apartheid.”

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Bread and circuses: Reality TV and the boundaries of artistic quality

Dr. Noa Lavie, a sociologist at the Tel Aviv-Yaffo Academic College, specializes in the impact of television on society, in Israel and beyond.

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Israel’s dead, long live the Jewish State!

Is Israel, as 91-year-old peace activist and moral compass Uri Avnery asserts, shifting from a “Hebrew” state to a “Jewish” state?

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Palestine in ruins: Israel and the depopulated villages of 1948

Noga Kadman discusses her recent book, “Erased from Space and Consciousness: Israel and the Depopulated Palestinian Villages of 1948.”

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