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From Zionism to fascism – and beyond

October 31, 2025

The poison of nationalism, in certain conditions, mutates quite quickly into authoritarianism and to fascism, an ideology that distils that poison into a form of ethnic/religious/racial superiority. In its most advanced form, fascism, a spawn of nationalism, becomes genocidal nazism. A classic examples, sponsored by global political powers that support the nationalist creed, is the […]

The genocidal settler general

August 28, 2025

For every humanitarian and concerned individual, the focus is, for obvious reasons, on the horrors that continue to unfold in Gaza, a charnel house justifiably dubbed “Israel’s Auschwitz. But the brutishly vile motivation behind the carnage in Gaza applies elsewhere as well, and no more so than in the central military region including the West […]

The only solutions to genocide & statehood

August 3, 2025

European recognition of Palestine is a hollow gesture that lets Israel off the hook. Without sanctions to stop the slaughter in Gaza, it’s not diplomacy – it’s complicity writes Gideon Levy in his latest (August 3, 2025) column in Haaretz International recognition of a Palestinian state rewards Israel, which should be thanking each and every […]

The Disgrace of Deliberate Starvation

July 25, 2025

To my mind, this is an important example of some honest, journalistic commentary that continues to survive in a society that continues, in the 21st Century, to behave as did those Polish and German citizens who denied knowledge of the Nazi Holocaust. — Terry Bell By Gideon Levy, July 24, 2025 Israel’s plan for the […]

Hebron hell: ‘voluntary’ ethnic cleansing

July 11, 2025

By Gideon Levy & photographer Alex Levac (Haaretz, 11/07/2025) The market square is empty, as the iconic song about another Old City – the one in Jerusalem – goes. Hebron’s main marketplace has been almost completely deserted for years. Anyone who wants to understand why, need only gaze upward: Hanging from the metal grilles Palestinians […]

The massive financial cost of warfare

July 3, 2025

This is a lightly edited Haaretz report on the Iranian response to the US backed attack on Iran. Such details, important as they are, have not had much publicity because the Israeli military continues to censor and block information. 500 Missiles, 200 Interceptors, $1.5 Billion: Numbers Behind Iran’s Attacks on Israel The IDF reported 36 […]

Murdering the future

June 22, 2025

Murder is a very serious crime. And it is very clearly defined: to kill another person “with malice aforethought”. In other words, to plan to kill someone for whatever reason and then to carry out the intention is a serious violation. The same charge applies to those who pay or order someone else to carry […]

Israel: a sick lion, not a rising one

June 19, 2025

By Gideon Levy, Haaretz, 18/06/2025 The fate of the war now depends on the whims of a capricious and voluble American president. He bombs Iran; there might be a victory. He doesn’t bomb, and Israel will have embarked on another futile war, more superfluous and dangerous than all of its predecessors. The involvement of the […]