they are opinion pieces and are open to the public to provide.

then why do they accept funds and the agenda of foreign entities?

One who tries to legitimize the ethnic cleansing of land in 1949 by Jordan as a basis for the rightful ownership by "Palestinians" today of Judea and Samaria, and one who tries to sacrifice Jewish rights, health, and basic human rights because they decry Israel's method of responding to terrorist attacks because one "innocent" might get hurt - is anything by "Zionist". If you "feel our pain" surely you'd wish to come to Israel, and discuss the merits of your support for Israel to our poor, misunderstood neighbors in Gaza City and Ramallah. Let us know how it turns out.

This which against anything humane and blind hatred of economic justice and demos against the moguls is sickening .Who created israel not the religious right with their psychotic states .

Post Shoah Judaism ought be something else Fierce Belligerant andHorriibly Deterrant but Inexcusable Cruelty Unecessary Sadism Never Againp

Avramele, the fundamental problem with your self-description as one of the Zionist left is that the term zionist left is an oxymoron. You can no more be a leftist and a Zionist than you can alive and dead at the same time. "Zionism" is the doctrine of self-determination for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland. The "Left" condemns Zionism as racism, hence denying the Jewish people the right of self-determination.

Seriously the author and those supporting this argument/article are pathetic. The Left has been heavily critical of Arab dictatorships. The problem is so many righwingers have their head shoved to far up their proverbial rightwing backsides to notice it.

It;s true that some may interpret situations and facts differently and disagree with each other. Common sense , reality, facts -- these all trump humility and philosophical wishful thinking no matter how sincere the motive. When the gun is pointed at you, you shoud be able to iterpret the danger using common sense and no debates are necessary or helpful. With the facts presented being self evident, and with due respect, I would side with the views and facts of #4 and #7 rather than engage in intellectual debates.

These left wing 'do-gooders' like Annie Lennox, George Galloway, (now) Sean Penn and the other terrorist apologists are conspicuous by their absence; the silence is deafening. Just picking out Israel as a Pariah, whilst praising ( by former MP George Galloway) regimes like Gaddafi's, Assad's or even further back, Saddam Hussein's smacks of either being a deep-seated mental disorder or just pure anti-Semitism.

as zionists nowdays and would go very far to condamn the IDF, and they do not show that much over zealousness to protest as they did in cast lead, the syria catch 22, the people who rebel in syria r Muslim with extream relgious agenda, either way is no good.

Because they secretly hate Arabs? We know they're rather open about their hatred for Jews.

is a better description, then hypocrisy. It has nothing to do with political enlightenment or moral outrage when Leftists point their arrows at their pet project - Israel. The Leftists have been educated in the traditions first recorded at Babel, a spiritual arrogance that manifests itself as a 'political progressive movement'. Leftists have more in common with 1930-40's German mentality, and Islamic Fascism than it will ever have with Jews who believe Gd ordained their Human and political rights.

Personally, and on this speaking for the left in general, laws indeed must be respected always. But, when laws are fundamentally unjust - when they give opportunity to some, but deny them to others (Israel), or when they deny fundamental human rights to most (Syria, China) then they must be opposed - peaceful if possible. Did you somehow fall asleep in your high school civics class? Did you throw away your copy of the Israeli Declaration of Independence or the American Constitution?

becouse leftists are little in arab lands becouse leftists have no strong believe in any thing but arabs have it strongly

Leftists, in keeping with their pragmatic and humanistic points of view, tend not to howl at injustices about which they can do nothing. Certainly the left joined all humanity in condemning Syrian behavior, but so what? Rightists do howl, attempting to make up in numbers and volume and invective what they lack in understanding.

they have built their "human" world, which collapsed on their heads (in Eastern Europe)

Most anti-semites never would admit, that their thoughts, words, actions are anti-semitic. Arabs deny pogroms, many westerners deny Auschwitz. They hypocritically claim, that they must demand Israel to meet higher standards than they demand from the Arabs, since Israel is a democracy.... while you cannot measure the Arabs at those high standards..... This is why they have no problem when Arabs are threatening Israel with annihilation but they have a problem, when Israel threatens Iran with military strikes against its nuclear program.

When I learned to read we also learned to comprehend, ie understand. From your answer to #24 it seems to me you missed the that.

The entire concept of this article is irrelevant. Mr. Daum's current argument against the left wing is that they are not protesting against the 70 people killed in an Egyptian soccer game???? Or that, as far as Mr. Daum can tell, no left wing person is against the Syrian government actions against the protesters. Looks like Daum is scraping the barrel to come up with his usual banter against the left. Daum...if you can't provide, relevant, intelligent reasons why the Israel left wing are so reprehensible....maybe your case is lost?

Perhaps we should ask the rabbanut and Israel's chief rabbis for an answer? They will certainly turn the zionism of Herzl on its head. I am a Zionist because I subscribe to every word in Israel's Declaration of Independence (btw penned by Ben Gurion who agreed to partition more than once in the years he led the Zionist movement.)

left has lost influence in polite society it still seeks to overthrow with help of its new partners

Each and every sentence of yours about "leftists" and leftism is cramed with demonstrable lies and other than that, untrue dishonest anipulation. On top of that, your inane remark about "pragmatic" and "humanistic" - OOOHHH such big words, usually coming from vain shallow people - are diametrically opposed to themselves most often! Learn some humility, communist leftover!

Leftist silent about it, coz it didn't happen in eretz Israel!, simple!

Progressives like myself seek the end of nations in favor of being goverend by the United Nations. That will finally end war. In order to end nationalism, we need to take down the most controversial of all nations first, and that is israel. What happens in Syria is not our concern because it is an internal matter

I am not convinced of your sincerity of your feelings about Israel as you state them. You comments seem to lack understanding of the facts or you just simply reject them. I would trust #7,#24,#33,#36 in their viewpoints and facts. As I see it, your comments seem somewhat superficial and rehearsed. Your comments are lacking a genuine or meaningful attitude. These are my own views and insights to your comments as written here on Ynet. Please feel free to prove me wrong..

Their hate of Israel-Jews is greater than their love of Arabs.

Happy now?

what about rightist who chants "death to arabs"....who are more racists?

YZ: Your post is wonderful evidence of the accuracy of mine. The anonymity of YZ is typical of rightist cowardice. You favor strong action in strong words, but hide so that you personally won't have to do anything.

or a tweet?