Benjamin Netanyahu

This is the Forward’s coverage of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister and an influential figure in Israeli politics.

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Wake Up, American Jews: You’ve Enabled Israel’s Racism For Years.

Much like Donald Trump’s election, the merger between the right-wing settler Jewish Home party and the Kahanist Otzma Yehudit — encouraged and facilitated by Prime Minister Netanyahu — marks less a break with the status quo than its unmasking. There was once a time when even Likud members felt obligated to object to the Kahanists’…

By Joshua Leifer Feb 25, 2019 | 5 min read
Opinion
Netanyahu Just Saved Liberal Zionism

Last Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did the unthinkable and welcomed Jewish terrorists into his ruling coalition. Facing possible indictment for a series of corruption charges and a plausible threat to his premiership during a rapidly progressing election cycle, Netanyahu pressured the far right party Bayit Yehudi to join forces with Otzma Yehudit, the…

By Batya Ungar-Sargon Feb 25, 2019 | 5 min read
Opinion
If You Called Out The Women’s March Over Farrakhan, You Better Call Out Netanyahu

On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, already saddled with a reputation of being willing to do or say anything to keep his job as prime minister, took a step that stretched that reputation even further. In an effort to prevent right-wing votes in Israel’s April 9 election from going to waste, he brokered a…

By Michael Koplow Feb 21, 2019 | 3 min read
Fast Forward
Two Centrist Israeli Parties Merge, Posing Threat To Netanyahu’s Reelection

A merger between two top-polling centrist parties is posing a major challenge to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ten-year hold on the office, the Times of Israel reported. After talks that lasted through the night, Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz agreed that their two parties — Yesh Atid and Israel Resilience, respectively — would merge…

By Ari Feldman Feb 21, 2019 | < 1 min read
Israel News
Major Jewish Groups Mum On Netanyahu’s Deal With Extremist Party

As liberal and progressive Jewish groups assailed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s deal to return supporters of the racist rabbi Meir Kahane to the Israeli Knesset, most leading American Jewish groups are keeping silent. Nine major Jewish groups, including the American Jewish Committee and the Jewish Federations of North America, did not respond to questions…

By Aiden Pink and Ari Feldman Feb 20, 2019 | 4 min read
Opinion
Did Israel Just Lose American Jews?

A lot of ink has been spilled in efforts to explain exactly why Israel and American Jewry are drifting apart. This past December, Israeli MK Naftali Bennett put forward his own analysis: “There’s a terrible problem of assimilation and growing indifference of Jews overseas both to their Jewishness and to Israel,” he said. “That is…

By David A. Halperin Feb 20, 2019 | 3 min read
Opinion
Netanyahu Isn’t The Problem. He’s The Symptom.

On Wednesday, it was reported that in the midst of a tense election cycle, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed the right-wing Jewish Home Party to join with the Jewish Power Party, which is populated by followers of the racist, banned leader Meir Kahane. So important was this merger to Netanyahu that he cancelled a…

By Antony Loewenstein Feb 20, 2019 | 4 min read
Opinion
Netanyahu Just Invited Israel’s Equivalent Of The KKK To Join The Government

The Israeli election cycle currently underway has been awash in anti-Arab racism for a while now. But things just got much, much worse. On Wednesday, Haaretz reported that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed the Jewish Home Party to join another party, the “Jewish Power” party, which inherited its leaders and politics from the well-known…

By Batya Ungar-Sargon Feb 20, 2019 | 4 min read

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Benjamin Netanyahu

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Wake Up, American Jews: You’ve Enabled Israel’s Racism For Years.

Netanyahu Just Saved Liberal Zionism

If You Called Out The Women’s March Over Farrakhan, You Better Call Out Netanyahu

Two Centrist Israeli Parties Merge, Posing Threat To Netanyahu’s Reelection

Major Jewish Groups Mum On Netanyahu’s Deal With Extremist Party

Did Israel Just Lose American Jews?

Netanyahu Isn’t The Problem. He’s The Symptom.

Netanyahu Just Invited Israel’s Equivalent Of The KKK To Join The Government

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