A reflection, one year later

The following is a personal reflection, or some ungathered thoughts about what happened exactly a year ago. This is not an analysis or a review of the war in the Gaza strip and southern Israel last winter, cynically called here ‘cast-lead’.  Many of those already exist around the web.  I just wanted to add a [...]

Why I Go

Almost every year I go to the Yitzhak Rabin memorial, which takes place at the square that now carries his name in Tel Aviv. Almost every year I am disappointed with the speeches, and with what the entire event says about the Israeli left. Yet, almost every year, as my friends swear it to be [...]

Carlo Strenger and the Psychology of the Opressor / Yanay Israeli

Personally, I really lost my patience with those so-called leftists who live in Israel, in 2009 (post assassinations, post “separation wall”, post “Cast lead”) and still refuse to lift their delicate necks and get their heads out of the warm, comforting swamp which is the symmetrical frame of thought. A person who thinks about the [...]

A Lot To Answer For

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 [...]

… and who is Left

As the resident Political Scientist on the blog, I thought it might be prudent to write my first post on an issue that might confuse non-Israeli readers of a blog that features the word “left” so prominently in its title.

Throughout the civilized world, the word “left” means something on the continuum between social-democrats and communists. [...]