“At this rate, Elor Azariya will be appointed Deputy Defense Minister.”
--In a reference to the IDF soldier on trial for shooting in the head and killing an already shot and neutralized Palestinian assailant who was laying on the ground, Zionist Camp MK Erel Margalit reacts to the announcement that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu offered far right-wing MK Avigdor Lieberman to be Defense Minister if he joins the government.**

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This year the Jerusalem municipality tripled the budget for a polarizing annual flag march, where right-wing Jews celebrate the conquering of E. Jerusalem by marching through the city - and through the Muslim Quarter, which the majority of the Jewish public opposes.

"Nobody called S. Yizhar a traitor. Nobody boycotted him. This story, like many others, became part of the curriculum in schools. Israeli society has moved a long way since then."
--Israeli educator Dr. Revital Amiran wrote that the popular and political support for the 'Shooting Soldier,' is a watershed moment undermining the army and tells readers about the book, 'The Captive,' by S. Yizhar, a story about Israeli soldiers who arbitrarily took captive a Palestinian shepherd and how they put him through humiliating and brutal interrogations. In another Op-Ed today Amiran wrote about how the new civics textbooks made Israel appear as if it were a country of Ashkenazi religious Jews, without any internal conflicts. 

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"He is the worst thing that happened to the people of Israel. Because he comes disguised as a right-winger, but in fact he is the most left-wing. He’s like Sharon. He became prime minister and then changed. He is the first one that needs to be taken down."
--‘D.,’ an Israeli hilltop youth in the West Bank tells Maariv reporter Lior Dayan about their plans to change the state.

“We have come to the Knesset of Israel today to warn about the trend of the slow and continued erosion of the foundation of Israeli democracy, which expresses itself in offensive discourse, verbal violence and lack of tolerance for the other and those who are different…”
--The Presidents of Israel's universities made a joint statement backing up the statement by General Yair Golan comparing trends in Israeli society to those of Germany 90 years ago.*

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You Must Be Kidding: 
Israel expropriated land from an East Jerusalem Palestinian family without a tender and against the rules, then handed it over to Amana, an organization that works to establish settlements and outposts.**

You Must Be Kidding #1: 
Israel's Defense Ministry plans to establish a new Israeli settlement for settlers it tried to evict because they lived on privately-owned Palestinian land. The new settlement will be next to the Geulat Zion outpost, which has been a focal point of violence against Palestinians and the home of the settler charged with the arson-murder of the Dawabsheh family.*

You Must Be Kidding #2: 
In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, far right-wing MK Bezalel Smotrich argued that revenge is an “important and moral value” that must be conducted against Palestinians by the Israeli government, and had that been done it could have prevented subsequent Jewish attacks on Palestinians, including the July 2015 arson attack that killed three members of the Dawabsheh family.**