Dahlia Scheindlin
Haaretz.com
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Past articles by Dahlia:
Israel's Government Is a Clear and Present Danger for Its Arab Palestinian Citizens
Even taking into account Israel's history of discrimination against its Arab citizens, the measures that Netanyahu's government is advancing still stand out for their horrifyingly explicit persecution of the country's Arab minority → Read More
The Big Lie at the Heart of Netanyahu's Extremist Government
Kill the judiciary, but at least stop the lies: Why the hard right Netanyahu government's assault on Israel's justice system is so dishonest, and so dangerous → Read More
Will Netanyahu Return? What Israel's Last-minute Election Polls Tell Us – and What They Don't
The far right is rising, the left is in trouble and Netanyahu’s fate hangs in the balance: Israel's last-minute pre-election polls are crucial windows into who will win power in Israel – and who Israelis really are → Read More
Will Netanyahu Return? What Israel's Last-minute Election Polls Tell Us – and What They Don't
The far right is rising, the left is in trouble and Netanyahu’s fate hangs in the balance: Israel's last-minute pre-election polls are crucial windows into who will win power in Israel – and who Israelis really are → Read More
Will Netanyahu Return? What Israel's Last-minute Election Polls Tell Us – and What They Don't
Amazingly, you’re still here, wondering what will happen in the Israeli elections next week. I have no answer, but will try to address a closely related question: What do we know from the polls? What can we expect them to tell us in the final, fateful days, and how much should we believe them?? → Read More
Israel's Arab Voters Hold Netanyahu's Fate in Their Hands. But There's a Big Catch
‘Can’t we get the Arabs to vote?’ What's disturbing about the anti-Netanyahu camp’s approach to the Palestinian citizens of Israel who will play a crucial role in deciding November’s election, and the country’s future → Read More
Why Iran Won't Save Netanyahu
Netanyahu's Iran policy was a disaster for Israel's national security, poisoned relations with U.S. Jews and the Democrats and failed at the ballot box. But ahead of November's elections, his opponents are making a similar mistake → Read More
From Gaza to the Ballot Box: Do Palestinians Really Matter to Israelis?
Hostilities with Gaza have only just ended, but the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will soon fade from campaigning for the November elections. But despite its absence, the conflict will be everywhere → Read More
Biden is making a big mistake with the Abraham Accords
No one expects Biden to spend political capital (or even much time) on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during his upcoming Mideast trip. But as Israel and its new Gulf allies fast-track ties, excluding the Palestinians feeds disturbing trends → Read More
The new battle in the Israeli right's relentless war on Palestinians
The West Bank's Area C represents every layer of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Annexation vs. self-determination, inequality, violence and, most recently, as the new front in the Israeli right's shameless reversal of the truth → Read More
What's God got to do with it? How religion fuels the Israel-Palestinian conflict
Surveys of Israelis and Palestinians are definitive: There's a stark, unyielding connection between religious devotion and political extremism. Religious Jews and Muslims stoke incitement and violence. But could they also resolve the conflict? → Read More
Ukraine war: Why most Israelis blame Putin, but most Palestinians don't
In recent surveys, Israelis and Palestinians hold sweepingly different attitudes towards Russia’s war on Ukraine, exposing how far their own conflict filters how they see the world, all the way to Kyiv and Moscow → Read More
Should Israel arm Ukraine? Israeli generals speak out
Israeli ‘strategic ambiguity’ on Russia's war on Ukraine is intensely controversial. Amid rising calls to send military aid, here are Israel’s top defense experts on whether Israel can risk arming Kyiv, how to deal with the fallout from Russia, and what is really at stake → Read More
On Ukraine, Israel's anti-occupation left is a shameful failure
Between blaming American imperialism, whataboutism and full-on indifference, the Israeli left is not standing with Ukraine. Does our commitment to freedom, self-determination, law and universal justice end at Palestine? → Read More
When Recognition Is Reckless
Russia is not the only country irresponsibly offering diplomatic stamps of approval. → Read More
Trigger warning: This is what could spark the next Israeli-Palestinian war
Learning the long menu of potential sparks for the next Israeli-Palestinian escalation – from Sheikh Jarrah to spiking food prices, Hamas to Homesh – is grim, but better to do it before the next war → Read More
Can Israel’s pro-peace left still justify sitting in a Bennett government?
Israel's left-wing parties, Meretz and Labor, gambled their deepest principles to join a government led by a right-wing nationalist champion of settlements. Is their political bargain paying off? Are they influencers, or fig leaves? → Read More
How to look for signs of life in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process
Defiant Israelis, despairing Palestinians: Why dire polls expressing rock-bottom belief in peace and disillusionment with democracy could also be cause for hope → Read More
This is Israeli COVID anti-vaxxers’ most crooked, toxic claim
Proselytizing anti-vaxxers, a vocal minority in Israel, make many spurious and damaging claims, but one fallacy about the pandemic and the COVID vaccine stands head and shoulders above the rest → Read More
Guess who's fueling Israel's disastrous COVID anti-vaxxer movement?
Out of power, but still eager for the spotlight, Netanyahu is now playing politics with Israel's COVID vaccine campaign. It's unforgivable → Read More