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Oct 24, 2018, 5:58 PM

Peace without democracy? The Palestinian case

A recent report by Human Rights Watch found out that despite the deep animosity between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas, they tend to share one common sad characteristic: ongoing, ruthless violations of human and civil rights. The report...

Oct 11, 2018, 8:57 PM

Who is afraid of Lara Alqasem?

The frenzy regarding Lara Alqasem, a 22-years old American citizen with Palestinian origins, seems to be reaching new heights: the Israeli authorities are extremely busy in searching the Facebook account of the young girl in order to find evidence...

Oct 11, 2018, 12:08 AM

The long post-Zionist march of Ayelet Shaked

In an interview given by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked to The Atlantic magazine, the rightwing, nationalist politician exposed her plan to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in her own unique way. The C territories, heavily inhabited by the Palestinian population,...

Oct 7, 2018, 12:34 AM

The liberal dead end and the anti-Trump campaign

The anti-Trump movement in the United States seems to be stronger than ever. The US President is insulted, delegitimized, hated and offended more than any other President before. Even former President George W. Bush, a known enemy of the...

Sep 1, 2018, 9:09 PM

The nation-state law and the road to serfdom

The recently-legislated nation-state law is portrayed as an instrument to discriminate the Arab citizens of Israel and perpetuate the Jewish hegemony within the country. Its critics argue that it contradicts Israel's Zionist ideology forged by Herzl, Ben-Gurion and Jabotinsky...

Mar 5, 2018, 4:09 AM

The Alt-Right and the way to Post-Capitalism

The political systems in Italy, Germany and Israel are quite different from each other. However, the three are marked by the process of enormous political and social polarization. In Germany, the old political apparatus is uncapable anymore of building...

Feb 18, 2018, 7:42 AM

Israel Is Ready For Bennett

A poll published in the Friday edition of The Jerusalem Post informed that nearly 60 percent of the Israelis believe that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ability to run the country has been harmed by the police probes. The Post’s...

Feb 13, 2018, 7:04 PM

Whither Meretz?

There are some people in the Left who wish to portray the elections to be held on March 22nd to the leadership of Meretz, Israel’s Left-Zionist party, as personal ones. On the one hand, we have Zehava Gal’on, who initiated...

Feb 11, 2018, 10:40 PM

The Iranian Acid Test of the Left

The name ‘Max Shachtman’ is not familiar to most English readers. Shachtman was the leading figure in the US Socialist Workers’ Party, the American section of Leon Trotsky’s Fourth International. As a talented journalist, he contributed to the party’s...

Jun 2, 2013, 4:07 PM

Turkish Spring or another Islamist Winter?

THE SITUATION IN TURKEY has been a great surprise to the West: many considered Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to be an all-mighty, powerful authority in the republic whose ties with the Islamist world were tightened due to the...

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About Me

DAVID MERHAV is a journalist writing for The Jerusalem Post, The Jerusalem Report and The Forward. Since 2008, he is working as journalist & Op-Ed columnist in Makor Rishon daily, Hebrew conservative newspaper published in Jerusalem; He also served as the Public Relations director for the Jabotinky Institute in Israel.