This is the Forward’s coverage of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister and an influential figure in Israeli politics.
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Opinion Israeli Elections May Show How Right Wing Young Israelis Are
We will know soon enough whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s shocking declaration in favor of extending Israeli sovereignty into the West Bank will motivate enough voters in Tuesday’s election to propel him to an unprecedented fifth term in office. But we already know this: He’s got one segment of the population in his electoral pocket…
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Opinion I’m Palestinian. Neither Candidate In The Israeli Election Gives Me Hope.
Despite wall to wall news coverage, Israel’s election this Tuesday isn’t much of a choice at all. The election comes down to whether Israelis will renew the term of the corrupt, divisive and fear-mongering Benjamin Netanyahu — who shamelessly boasts that under his leadership, the country is no state for its non-Jewish citizens — or…
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Fast Forward Did Trump Invoke Dual Loyalty By Calling Bibi ‘Your Prime Minister’?
President Trump seemed to be confused about who he was addressing at the Republican Jewish Coalition over the weekend. He appeared to refer to the crowd of American Jewish Republicans as Israelis, even noting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “your prime minister,” Business Insider reported. Speaking to the American Republican Jewish Coalition, Trump refers…
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Fast Forward Brazil President Calls Nazis Leftists After Israeli Holocaust Museum Tour
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro said “there is no doubt” that Nazism was a leftist movement, just after visiting Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum. Bolsonaro’s remarks directly contradicted information on the museum’s website saying Germany’s Nazi movement rose out of right-wing radical groups responding to the rise of communism. In…
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Fast Forward Trump: Watch Your Back Bibi, I’m Coming For Your Job
President Trump said on Tuesday that the United States is doing just fine — so perhaps he could run for prime minister of Israel. At the National Republican Congressional Committee annual spring dinner, Trump spoke about supporting Israel’s security and recognizing the Golan Heights as part of the country. “To support Israel’s security, just last week…
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Opinion Why Netanyahu Is Going To Win. Again.
Why would any sane person vote for Benjamin Netanyahu? It’s a question one hears a lot, particularly from dovish American Jews. Bibi is corrupt, they say. He is racist. He’s been in power too long. He’s ruined relations with the U.S. and turned Israel into a partisan issue. He has transformed the wonderful old Israel…
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Fast Forward Fake Social Media Accounts Working To Help Netanyahu Reelection Bid
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hundreds of social media accounts, many of them fake, are working together to help the reelection efforts of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party, an Israeli watchdog group has found. The watchdog group, called the Big Bots Project, found no links between the network of social media accounts and…
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Opinion By Recognizing The Golan, Trump Greenlit Annexing The West Bank
On Monday, President Donald Trump officially proclaimed his recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. It did not even take until the next day for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take the Golan victory and try and extend it to the next arena. Speaking after the White House ceremony that night, Netanyahu said, “When…
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