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The text the scoring pipeline reads. Each document is tied to a party (or politician) with a published date, a source URL, and either Arabic, Hebrew, or English content. Open any one to read the verbatim source and see how it was scored.
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Interview English IL 2024-11-28 Tier 2 Ofer Cassif (Jewish anti-Zionist MK for Hadash; only Jewish member of Israel's Arab-majority bloc) — Tribune interview, Nov 2024: "I had to be an anti-Zionist and actively oppose the ideology and practice of Zionism, given my basic socialist beliefs," indicting Israel for "genocide, ethnic cleansing… occupation" and "fascism growing stronger." The radical anti-Zionist Jewish-left pole.
I decided that my way should be the socialist, humanist one rather than the Zionist one, that it wasn't enough not to be a Zionist, but that I had to be an anti-Zionist and actively oppose the ideology and practice of Zionism, given my basic socialist beliefs. This is the situation in Israel — alongside genocide,…
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Interview Hebrew IL 2024-03-03 Yair Golan — interview, “Unite the Left, topple Netanyahu's government” (Jerusalem Post), 3 March 2024 (English rendering of Hebrew)
(On October 7, after a call that Hamas had begun to invade towns near Gaza, Golan launched a one-man rescue mission; reflecting on that day, he remembers one feeling: rage.) "I remember the moment. […] The feeling that came up was terrible rage, terrible anger. […] I am not angry at Hamas. Hamas hates us and is a…
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Interview English IL 2024-01-18 Tier 2 Gadi Eisenkot (former IDF chief of staff; war-cabinet observer; National Unity MK) — Israeli-TV interview, Jan 2024 (per CNN): prioritizing the hostages over "total victory" — "for me, the mission is to save civilians (hostages) before eliminating the enemy" — and candidly admitting "a strategic achievement was not reached… we did not demolish the Hamas organization."
There's no dilemma: for me, the mission is to save civilians (hostages) before eliminating the enemy. A strategic achievement was not reached … We did not demolish the Hamas organization.
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Interview Hebrew IL 2023-08-27 Itamar Ben-Gvir — “The right to life supersedes the right to free movement” (Jerusalem Post, on his Channel 12 interview), 27 August 2023 (English translation of Hebrew)
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir doubled down on remarks he made in a Channel 12 television interview, in which he argued that Jewish Israelis' safety on West Bank roads outweighs Palestinians' freedom of movement. "It is simple," he said. "The right to life supersedes the right to free movement." "My…
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Interview English IL 2023-06-17 Tier 2 Ehud Olmert (former Prime Minister of Israel, 2006–2009) — interview via The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jun 2023: warning that without a two-state solution Israel risks apartheid comparison — "We are reaching a point where we will be compared with the apartheid regime… of South Africa" — and that "this government doesn't want to make peace."
We are reaching a point where we will be compared with the apartheid regime that led the civilized world to boycott South Africa. This government doesn't want to make peace. It won't make any effort to make peace.
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Interview English IL 2023-06-08 Tier 2 Merav Michaeli (then leader of Israel's Labor Party; feminist, Zionist-left) — interview with The Forward during a 2023 US visit (8 Jun 2023): calls reviving liberal Zionism "the future of Israel," likens Netanyahu's politics to Trumpism, and vows to defend Israeli democracy against the judicial overhaul.
The future of Israel depends on its going back to the Zionist vision,” she said during a recent visit to the U.S. “And our side of the political map must rebuild its political power, build the infrastructure that it doesn’t have today to reach people’s hearts and minds. I think post 2016, Americans should realize…
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Interview English IL 2022-09-05 Tier 2 Miri Regev (senior Likud minister; ex-Culture & Sport Minister) — Davar interview, Sep 2022: positioning herself as the voice of the periphery against the center/elite — "they see me as their mouthpiece, and their representative" — and waging culture war on the Tel Aviv establishment: "I made it clear that culture was not born in Tel Aviv." The Likud populist-nationalist / Mizrahi-periphery / anti-elite pole.
You have to understand that in Israeli society, there are still very large gaps between the periphery and the center; There are people who don't have the opportunity and the tools to fight in an equal way, and they see me as their mouthpiece, and their representative. I made it clear that culture was not born in Tel…
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Interview English IL 2017-08-09 Tier 2 Ayman Odeh interview, Fathom: 'change is impossible without us', 2017
[Q: What is your vision for the future of the Arab-Palestinian minority in Israel?] Ayman Odeh: That there should be peace based on two states along the 1967 borders with very good relations between them, and that following the establishment of a Palestinian state there should be peace between Israel and all the Arab…
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Interview English IL 2007-02-28 Tier 2 Balad doctrine — MK Jamal Zahalka interview, 'A State of all its Citizens', Feb 2007
Balad is [a] national democratic party defined by two political positions. One is the demand that Israel be a state of all its citizens, as opposed to Israel's self-definition as a Jewish state, and two is cultural autonomy for Palestinians inside Israel. Israel should be a state of all its citizens, not a state that…
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Interview Arabic IL 2002-04-15 حوار مع الشيخ رائد صلاح — المجتمع العصامي والمفاصلة التامة (Northern Islamic Movement — Raed Salah programmatic interview)
نحن الأصل: … نحن نعمل في إطار الحركة الإسلامية لفلسطينيي 48 ومن خلال هذه الحركة نسعي إلي تعميق قيم الإسلام في نفوس المسلمين, ثم خدمة الجماهير الفلسطينية ـ بغض النظر عن تعدداتها الدينية والسياسية ـ ونهتم بشكل خاص بقضية القدس الشريف والأقصي المبارك ، مع إصرارنا الأبدي أننا جزء من شعب فلسطين والعالم العربي والأمة…
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Interview English IL Tier 2 May Golan (Likud MK & minister; anti-asylum-seeker activist) — on Sean Hannity's Fox News show (~2016, per JTA), framing opposition to African asylum-seekers as legitimate border protection via a Trump parallel: "this is the same thing in Israel. I… and the rest of the people of Israel, have the right to protect their homes, and its borders." The anti-immigration / ethno-nationalist-populist pole.
I can see here what's going on with Donald Trump. They're calling him racist just for wanting to protect the borders of his country. Well, this is the same thing in Israel. I think I, and the rest of the people of Israel, have the right to protect their homes, and its borders.