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.

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

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

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


Israel is changing: Here are the key tribes and trends involved - opinion

The authentic growth of Israeli Judaism, emerging naturally and accepted broadly, will be the defining journey of the next generation. 

 Youth call for unity in Jerusalem, March 2023.

There is no reason for the Israeli Left to disappear - opinion

Being left-wing involves, inter alia, seeking peace and believing in humanism, the welfare state, and a mixed economy. There is no reason for the Israeli Left to disappear.

 LABOR PARTY leader MK Merav Michaeli holds a news conference in Tel Aviv last week. Michaeli announced that she won’t seek reelection as party leader and will not run for the next Knesset.

Netanyahu has been exposed as a skilled manipulator - opinion

As a skilled manipulator, Netanyahu strives to inculcate that Judaism and the Left are diametrically opposed, in which case the Left threatens our very basic identity as Jews.

 Minister-without-portfolio Benny Gantz walks behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as Defense Minister Yoav gallant takes his seat, at a recent news conference.

Israel-Hamas war: Did Oct. 7 change Israeli left-wing views on peace?

36% of Israelis have gone farther Right, as opposed to only 6% who reported going farther Left, following Hamas's October 7 massacre.

 UPDATED PRIORITIES: The papered-over bulletin board outside the Knesset reflects the shift in focus.

Ahed Tamimi: Showing her true colors - opinion

Tamimi stands for the 21st-century iteration of antisemitic blood libels, Nazism 2.0, and the mendacious manipulation of bleeding hearts everywhere, especially in Israel.

 Then-Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebi honors Ahed Tamimi in Tunis, 2018. Now, at last, she has finally removed her mask, say the writers. She posted on Instagram: 'What Hitler did to you was a joke.'

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