“The search, identification and marking of alleged traitors is an old fascist characteristic, an ugly and dangerous one.”
--Likud MK Benny Begin slammed the campaign 'outing' left-wing artists as traitors and called for Im Tirtzu’s funding sources to be exposed.**

"As one of the only ones here who grew up in a dictatorship, I am telling you that (you) are going in a very wrong direction."
--MK Haim Yellin (Yesh Atid), who immigrated from Argentina during that country's "Dirty War" period of state terror, tells Culture Minister Miri Regev after she presented her controversial 'Cultural Loyalty' bill to Knesset.**

“After Operation Protective Edge, Cast Lead, Pillar of Defense and thousands upon thousands of dead and injured that the IDF left in Gaza, a state whose government ministers and MKs call on civilians to shoot to kill; a state whose soldiers shoot and kill Palestinians every day; in whose army a soldier killed a youth who went out to collect thistles; and the trials of those who committed real atrocities goes on and is dragged out and later it turns out that none of them are really responsible for their actions – in a country like this, that’s what bothers us? One dead Palestinian?
--Israeli writes letter to the editor lambasting the ‘racket’ raised by the State of Israel, which arrested three left-wing and human-rights activists.**

You Must Be Kidding: 
"In the fall of 2015, a series of stabbings were made across the country. Most of them were committed by Arab citizens of Israel ..."
--False information in the controversial new Israeli civics textbook.

"How is the Israeli consensus manufactured? It happens when awful facts associated with 50 years of occupation, discrimination and systematic land theft are never “exposed” in prestigious investigative programs such as Uvda. It is achieved by the decisive voice of the “objective truth” touting a “democratic and Jewish state” (barring a few weeds,) a moral IDF, even when it bombs civilians and massacres children, with statements such as an “anti-Semitic world,” “the Arabs want to annihilate us,” “there is only one Holocaust and its ours” and “we all want social justice” (except for a few corrupt ones who we exposed in our program.)"
--Michal Peleg, an activist with the left-wing Ta'ayush organization, slams the Israeli media for its collaboration with the Occupation, in a powerful Op-Ed in Haaretz+.

"This is the reason left-wing activists feel it is open season on them. Because the targeting of activists has become personal, using their names and images. Because the goal is to find something — anything — to eliminate them, at all costs."

--Noam Sheizaf writes in Maariv how the Israeli police only investigate right-wing hate crimes after a crime is committed and in most cases it ends without an indictment. But in the case of the recently detained three left-wing activists, the process was reversed. A right-wing organization went to infiltrate the left-wing organizations and get dirt on as many activists as possible to search for ways to bring them down.

“The message I want to spread and which I have repeated to all those who have come to pay their condolences is to stop sharpening swords, and look for what unites us."
--Natan Meir, widower of the mother of six, who was murdered by a Palestinian teen inside her settlement.

"And in general, we always need to keep the threat in the air and be on guard that the eternal candle of national anxiety isn't blown out."
--Maariv columnist Ran Adelist writes that the Netanyahu government is looking for reasons to keep the Israeli people scared.**

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You Must Be Kidding: 
"But recently we learned that Shufersal supplies a delivery service almost everywhere in Israel, on condition that it is not an Arab community."
--Two Arab Israelis file a class-action suit against the country's biggest supermarket chain, saying it discriminates against Israeli Arabs by not allowing them to buy from its online store.

"Whoever thinks it's possible to heal the hatred by using force alone is raising with his own hands the next monster: a boy without hope can be 50,000 times more dangerous than adults who have come to accept the reality."
--Yedioth commentator Merav Betito goes past the politics in examining what makes Palestinian youth murder Jews.**

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You Must Be Kidding:  
A carwash in Petah Tikva was set on fire on Monday, with the police suspecting that it was an arson attack provoked by the fact that the company employs Arabs.*

"B’tselem invites you – right-wing moles, imposters and pretenders – to a tour in the south Hebron hills, on Friday Jan. 29th. Costumes are not required, no need to equip yourselves with hidden cameras.
Program: Munchies, mingling with Palestinians, discussion circles with B’tselem field investigators about the evils of the occupation, and at the end – free time for questions, quoting and taking sentences out of context."
--B'tselem ad in today's Haaretz newspaper. The ad ended with the words, "Come, ‘Im Tirtzu,'" meaning: ‘if you want,’ but also the name of the far right-wing organization that called B’tselem employees ‘foreign moles.’)