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A scholar of Israeli politics explains why Israelis are increasingly turning against Netanyahu and his promise that Israel can quickly defeat Hamas and bring Israeli hostages home.
Israel’s highest court has struck down the government’s law limiting its power. Three scholars look at why the law was proposed, what it aimed to do and who supported – and opposed – it.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has presided over disasters before – and remained in power. But is the intelligence failure preceding the Hamas attack so big that this time he won’t?
It will take a lot of strategic ingenuity to fight the rise of populism. And it will get harder to do so as politicians rig the game with rules designed to reduce voting.
Mass protests against the government’s plans to weaken the judiciary have exposed the deep divisions in Israel’s civil society.
Three scholars examine the implications of the crisis roiling Israel as hundreds of thousands of people protest across country.
Israel’s leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, has fired the country’s defense minister. That deepened the country’s crisis over proposed judicial reforms that even military reservists have protested.
Huge pro-democracy demonstrations in Israel have taken place for almost two months in protest of new rules for the Supreme Court that Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government is rushing into law.
A claim about how persecuted Jews were freed from the Soviet Union decades ago relates to how Palestinians might be treated today.
The Likud leader looks set to return as Israeli prime minister after a period of political instability in the country – and five elections in less than four years.
Benjamin Netanyahu wasn’t ousted just for typical political reasons, such as other politicians’ ambitions or grievances. He was thrown out because he was seen as a threat to democracy.
An unwritten rule in Israeli politics kept Arab political parties out of ruling government coalitions – until the latest election.
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was indicted on corruption charges Wednesday, both the charges and Netanyahu’s response to them were reminiscent of the situation President Trump is in.
The winner of Tuesday’s Israeli election must form a government and tackle four problems that will shape the future of the country and the relations among its citizens and Palestinian non-citizens.
A major swing to the right and the abstention of a key demographic have bolstered the Israeli leader’s position.
Rather than transform Israel into an undemocratic ‘apartheid’ state, the new nation-state law is more likely to ensure that Israel can’t be transformed into a liberal democracy or binational state.
In its valid claims to be regarded as a country that respects the rule of law, Israel is now at risk of demeaning that reputation.
Why the 2015 Israeli elections are witness to big shifts in how minorities vote and why that’s bad news for Benjamin Netanyahu.
Top contributors
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Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Scholar-in-residence at the Center for Israeli Studies, American University
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Emeritus Professor of Law, University of East London
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Associate Professor of International Relations, American University School of International Service
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Texas at Arlington
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Executive Director, Leonard and Shirley Goldstein Center for Human Rights, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Associate Professor (Politics), University of Nottingham
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Professor of Political Science and Founding Director, International Studies Program, Burman University
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Professor Emeritus, Department of Politics, York University, Canada
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Chair, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, UMass Amherst
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Visiting Research Fellow, Research Centre for the Study of Parties and Democracy, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Sociology, University of Haifa
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Professor of Rhetoric, University of Oregon
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Affiliate Researcher, The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University
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Tony Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
