While Israel maintains that it is the Jewish state, the majority of the world Jewry doesn’t reside in Israel. Based on 2007 figures, only 41 per cent of world Jewry actually do live in Israel. But Israel’s legitimacy as a self proclaimed nation state, while it should [...]
Many a word was written on the topic of the GLBT teen gathering shooting in Tel Aviv. Here, at IsraLeft, we’ve covered the issue extensively: Maital’s words, defined by Chris Geidner of Law Dork as “Crushing”, and then Or’s post explaining why this is, indeed, a hate crime, followed by Elad’s educating post about the [...]
Two other posts about the Attack on Gay Israeli youth were recently published on this blog: by Or Bareket and by Maital Rozenboim
A grave thing happened in Israel last night. A terrible thing happened, in Tel-Aviv of all places. It was vile, but not particularly surprising. Tel-Aviv is considered a gay-friendly city, and that is [...]
Two Army Radio broadcasters urge violence against whistleblowing soldiers.
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