Published: 24 July 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
ZEHAVA GALON DOESN’T WANT anyone to think she’s a loser. In fact, she’s pretty good at making sure this won’t happen. She has energy, joie de vivre and skills that even her rivals admire, but also an infectious ability to enjoy things like Pilates or a manicure.
Galon, now a Haaretz columnist, is the latest interviewee for a series of talks with leaders on the left from various fields. They all try to answer the question: “Did the left lose the battle against the occupation, and if so, why?”
'Look at all the people sitting in this café. You think that they saw a Palestinian recently? That they care about the Palestinians?'
The choice to talk to Galon is obvious: In politics, Galon is the living person most identified with the fight against the occupation, even though she left the stage two and a half years ago to save herself from a humiliating defeat in a Meretz primary. She served in the Knesset for 16 years, six of them as the party chairwoman.
Since then, she has reinvented herself as a Twitter star who shows no mercy to right-wingers. She’s now promoting a report by a new left-wing group that she founded, Zulat for Equality and Human Rights. The report’s name, Whitewashing Apartheid: How Netanyahu Manipulated Language to Hide the Consequences of Unilateral Annexation, is succinct enough.
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Outpost is far from any other settlement and was moved from privately owned Palestinian land closer to Israeli army base
US stands alone on Israel annexation plan as China backs Palestinians (Newsweek)
Photo: Zehava Galon (Tomer Applebaum)
