Tag Archives: Fascism

Creeping Nazism in Israel

Creeping fascism in Israel Uri Avnery draw on his personal experience of Germany on the eve of the Nazi party’s victory, and during the early years of Nazism, to show that similar processes of creeping Nazism are underway in Israel today. Read more [...]

What motivates US policy towards Israel?

Hillary Clinton kowtows to Israel Lawrence Davidson analyses the amorality and mercenary underpinning of US Democratic Party policy towards Israel, as exemplified by Hillary Clinton, National Security Advisor Susan Rice and ambassador to the UN Samantha Power. Read more [...]

The cats of Ariel and the deranged politics of Israel’s far-far right

Uri Ariel Uri Avnery describes what happens when you mix religion with far-right fascist politics, as is the case in Israel now with its mix of surreal, religiously-inspired policies, supremacism and racism. Read more [...]

Israel, where a Las Vegas casino mogul’s stooge is God

Sheldon Adelson and Binyamin Netanyahu Uri Avnery reflects on the pathetic state of Israeli politics, where the utterances of Binyamin Netanyahu, the stooge of an American casino mogul, go unchallenged as if they were the words of God. Read more [...]

Israel’s new government “partly ridiculous, partly terrifying”

Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennett Uri Avnery vividly describes the calamity freely chosen by the Israeli Jewish people: the most ultra-right-wing, openly expansionist, anti-democratic, anti-free speech and bigoted government ever elected in Israel. Read more [...]

The whole truth about Israel in one sentence

Gideon Levy Alan Hart explains why he would not be surprised if he woke up one morning to learn that Israel’s Haaretz journalist Gideon Levy – “the conscience of Israeli journalism” – has been assassinated. Read more [...]

Eyeballing Israel’s Binyamin Netanyahu

Binyamin Netanyahu and his father Benzion Uri Avnery analyses the character of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu: shaped by his embittered far-right Zionist father and willing to “lie, cheat, repudiate himself, raise false flags” to achieve Greater Israel. Read more [...]

Netanyahu, Europe’s far right find common ground

Binyamin Netanyahu and Europe's right Jonathan Cook says Israel’s PM and Europe’s far right’s common vision is a Europe free of Jews, who should be in Israel, and free of Muslims, who risk undermining support for Israel. Read more [...]

Israel’s upcoming election choices

Israeli elections 2015 Uri Avnery advocates a centrist-leftist election bloc to contest Israel’s upcoming polls, which he argues will decide between a racist, warmongering state or a democratic state at peace with the Palestinians. Read more [...]

Time running out for peace in Middle East

Tide of religious extremism Uri Avnery says time is running out for Israelis to make peace with Arab nationalists, especially with the Palestinian people, before religious fanatics – Muslims and Jews – sweep across the region. Read more [...]