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Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Apr 28, 2025, 5:51 PM

Billionaires’ greed now is laying the groundwork for a global violent revolution

Democracy's quiet saved them for a century; they're now squandering it It sounds ridiculous. Why did a century ago the richest agree that the rabble and women would all get equal votes? This is my theory. The richest are always scared...

Mar 30, 2025, 6:45 PM

Would he? Could he? How Netanyahu might delay Israel’s next election

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara casts their votes at a voting station in Jerusalem on September 17, 2019. (Heidi Levine/AFP)

Israeli democracy is on borrowed time. After years of incremental erosion, the democratic backslide is no longer theoretical. It is happening. And if we do not confront this moment with the seriousness it demands, we may soon find ourselves...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Nov 8, 2024, 9:05 AM

An Immodest Proposal: Democratic Recall

For a huge number of Israelis, PM Netanyahu’s firing of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in the middle of a war on several fronts, with another imminent massive Iranian attack in the offing, is the “last straw”. This, especially when...

Sep 29, 2024, 4:37 PM

At the Hostages Families headquarters. One Year On

Hostages Square (Wikipedia)

I didn't want to write this column on the first anniversary of the massacre of the Round Gaza communities and at the beginning of the second year of the "Iron Swords" war (this very name alone awakens all kinds...

Sep 23, 2024, 5:09 PM

Division and Reunification in Israel: Quod Erat, Erit?

The longstanding divisions within Israeli society raise profound questions about the potential for future reconciliation and unity. In two of my recent articles, I explored the enduring impact of historical and societal splits within Israel, tracing the consequences from...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Aug 28, 2024, 10:09 AM

‘Workers, women, and now groups of people have no common sense’

How to make disdain sound scientific or have statistics do the lying for you The YouTube channel Veritasium, with 16M subscribers, just claimed that democracy is 'fundamentally irrational' and 'mathematically impossible.' This is because power gets concentrated in one party, eventually...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Jun 27, 2024, 7:24 PM

The Problem of ‘Nowism’ (1): Addressing the Future

What do these all have in common? 1- PM Netanyahu has never tried resolving Israel’s haredi, education system refusal to include secular subjects that clearly will lead to an economic time bomb down the road. 2- Many Social Security...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Mar 1, 2024, 1:06 PM

How the left lost many of the working class

And the right was able to lure many workers The right can have many slogans (small government) and lies (we're for the little man) but it has only one program: making the rich richer. The rest is window dressing. The...

Oct 3, 2023, 6:50 PM

A Regular Demonstration in Or-Akiva

Here are my remarks at the demonstration last Saturday in Or-Akiva - a not-so-large community that cares a lot about Israel and will not give up. -- Good evening, Or-Akiva! It's good to be here tonight and meet people who care....

Aug 14, 2023, 12:35 PM

When Jim Crow takes over Israel

Imagine a Macbeth-type pre-elections witch session where Messrs. Smotritch, Levin, and Ben-Gvir bend maliciously over a steaming cauldron even before the hurly-burly is done. They confer on going to the ballots without alerting the Israeli public to their true...

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