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Is there still a Left in Israel? How October 7 shaped Israel's political landscape

Polls show that since October 7, many Israelis on the Left have lost faith in the chances for any kind of peace deal with the Palestinians.

 Hostage families take center stage at the People’s Peace Summit
 PROTESTERS DEMONSTRATE against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government near the Knesset earlier this month. Israeli society is splitting in two, and the bridges, if any still exist, are collapsing, the writer laments.

Israeli society is veering towards the brink of collapse – opinion

 AT THE ceremony celebrating the new Dahan Gate (L-R): Bar-Ilan U. President Prof. Arie Zaban, Dr. Zipora Schorr, Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg, Shlomo Zohar, Bar-Ilan CEO and Senior Deputy President Zohar Yinon, and Rector Prof. Amnon Albeck.

Grapevine, May 23, 2025: They also see

 Yair Netanyahu over the Jerusalem fires of April 30, 2025.

'I hope this was just Arabs': Yair Netanyahu speaks on 'suspicious' timing of fires


TAU archaeology prof. faces calls to be dropped from nat'l conf. for West Bank dig stance - report

After publicly boycotting an archaeological conference in Judea and Samaria, a TAU professor finds himself at the center of an argument on his role as a lecturer at a national archaeology conference.

The first building ever discovered in Yavne from the Sanhedrin era. It contained fragments of ‘measuring cups’ identified with a Jewish population.

Fighting antisemitism beyond politics: Building alliances, not boycotting - opinion

In fighting Jew-hatred, we must build alliances rather than boycotting activists willing to fly to Jerusalem and denounce Jew-haters.

 Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli seen at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem on March 27, 2025

The two-state delusion is dead: Israel knows it, the world must accept it - comment

Israel is not the same country it was before October 7. It never will be again. The only question now is whether the world is ready to accept that.

 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the Turkish parliament during an extraordinary session on August 15, 2024 in Ankara, Turkey.

Israel expels British Jewish activist who tried to immigrate under Law of Return

Franks said he sees his politics as compatible with the Israeli identity he hopes to achieve. 

 Israeli security forces try to disperse Palestinian, left-wing Israeli and foreign activists, during a protest near the West Bank Israeli settlement of Mitzpe Yair in Masafer Yatta near Hebron on June 10, 2022.

Is Yair Golan the Labor Party's new hope? - opinion

If the left-wing bloc led by Golan will take mandates from Yesh Atid and National Unity, then the battle between Golan, Gantz, and Lapid is just beginning.

 YAIR GOLAN speaks after the results were announced in the Labor Party primary election, in Tel Aviv, on Tuesday.

The Left's attempts to ruin Independence Day thankfully failed - opinion

Whilst the hard left rejected Independence Day, most Israelis set out into Israel’s streets and parks to celebrate.

 CELEBRATING INDEPENDENCE Day in Tel Aviv: Fortunately, most Israelis clearly rejected the rejectionist, dangerously debilitating narrative, and set out into Israel’s streets and parks to mark the day, the writer asserts.

Israel's Left needs to unify like their right-wing counterparts - comment

Ultimately, however, if there is anything to be taken away from the municipal elections this week, it is that the Left needs to learn the strategy of unity if they wish to succeed.

 REELECTED JERUSALEM Mayor Moshe Lion celebrates victory, early Wednesday morning. Whether it be Jerusalem, Netanya, Ra’anana, Bat Yam, Holon, Ashdod, Tiberias, Safed, Arad, Elad, or many more, right-wing parties enjoyed a sweeping win across the country, the writer notes.

The left turned its back on Jews, time for a new pro-Israel coalition - opinion

It is hypocritical for Israelis to advocate for the preservation of the Jewish character of the State of Israel while playing the role of progressives as we “tsk tsk.”

 A SECURITY member takes away a keffiyeh and Palestinian flag from a pro-Palestinian demonstrator during the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, in New York City.

Israel's political identity crisis: Right divided, left reevaluating

Israel’s right is moving away from Netanyahu as the left is reevaluating its worldview.

 Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Cabinet minister Benny Gantz during a press conference in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv , Israel , 28 October 2023.

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.'

'Left-wing Israelis will burn synagogues,' Beersheba mayoral candidate warns

According to a police complaint, Beersheba Deputy Mayor Shimon Boker used "inciting language" in his ad.

Campaign advertisement by Beersheba Deputy Mayor Shimon Boker, October 3, 2023.