Left-wing

Open letter to Peter Beinart: When the Left comes for you, where will you go? - opinion

The Left is turning on Jews in ways that have nothing to do with Israel.

|ByJEFFREY LAX
PETER BEINART attends the PEN America 62nd Annual Literary Awards at Town Hall in New York City.
US REPRESENTATIVE Ro Khanna looks on during the National Action Network National Convention in New York City, earlier this month.

Rep. Ro Khanna: Betting against Jews - opinion

Rep. Ro Khanna’s criticism of Israel has become a very vocal part of his public message. Here's when it all began.

|ByLEV STESIN
FILE PHOTO: Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez meet at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, March 6, 2024.

Global leftist leaders gather in Spain to mobilize against far right

Europe's far right lost one of its biggest champions with the defeat of Hungary's nationalist leader Viktor Orban in Sunday's election.

|ByREUTERS
IRAN’S CROWN Prince Reza Pahlavi meets with Iranian former left-wing political prisoners in Paris. Many who formerly would never would have the son of the shah have now backed his post-regime plan for Iran. Iraj Mesdaghi is second from left, next to Pahlavi, and bottom right is Mahshid Sepehri.

From revolutionaries to royalists? Why some of Iran's former leftists now back Reza Pahlavi

IRAN AFFAIRS: Nearly half a century after the Islamic revolution, a number of former leftist revolutionaries are arriving at a conclusion that would once have seemed unthinkable.

|ByALEX WINSTON

What stands in the way of Israel's national unity? - opinion

The question is whether we can somehow remain united despite our real differences in positions on many pertinent issues.

MAY 20, 2024BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF
A woman waves an Israeli flag as people gather during the event "100 days 100 voices" to mark 100 days since the October 7 Hamas attack, calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza, in front of the Opera Bastille in Paris, France, January 14, 2024

Sorry, neo-Nazis: The antisemitic progressive Left is the real threat to US Jews - opinion

In recent months, we have witnessed the equivalent of dozens of Charlottesville neo-Nazi marches, only this time the participants are from the extreme Left.

MAY 3, 2024ByMICHAEL FREUND
An illustrative image of the KKK.

AOC decries lack of genocide ruling on Gaza, urges halt of weapons trade with Israel

The New York Representative does not mention Hamas in her commentary on the events currently in the Gaza Strip.

MARCH 23, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Labor MKs Kariv, Lazimi endorse Yair Golan to lead party

Golan previously served as a member of the Knesset within Meretz. He ran for leadership of Meretz ahead of the November 2022 election and lost to Zehava Galon.

MARCH 17, 2024ByELIAV BREUER
Yair Golan attends a conference at the Reichman University in Herzliya, on February 6, 2024.

Yair Golan launches campaign to lead Labor, Left

Other than Golan, the only other person to announce her candidacy is current Labor MK Efrat Rayten.

MARCH 7, 2024ByELIAV BREUER
Former Meretz MK Yair Golan

Letters to the editor, March 4, 2024: Contrasting articles

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

MARCH 4, 2024ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters

Left-wing Zionist groups Americans for Peace Now, Ameinu to merge

The groups declared that the merger made sense because the groups complemented one another.

FEBRUARY 16, 2024ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA
Rep. Andy Levin speaks at a press conference introducing his "Two-State Solution Act" on Capitol Hill, Sept. 23, 2021. He is flanked by Hadar Susskind, the president/CEO of Americans for Peace Now; Rep. Alan Lowenthal; Rep. Sara Jacobs; Rep. Peter Welch; and J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami.

Left out: How the global Left betrayed its Israeli supporters - opinion

As the pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian PR war goes on, I realize that the radical left has abandoned its values to support pro-Palestinian antisemitism.

JANUARY 31, 2024ByDANA RIES
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest near the entrance of the Jamaica to JFK AirTrain Station in New York City, U.S., January 27, 2024.

'JPost' election poll: New party of IDF reservists shakes up Israeli politics

According to the poll, a reservists’ party headed by Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli (Likud) would win eight seats.

JANUARY 25, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
How many seats would a new party of reservists receive, if headed by:

As Liberal Jews Feel abandoned by the Left

What’s next?

JANUARY 10, 2024ByADAM MILSTEIN
Liberal Jews - Abandoned by the left