https://znetwork.org/author/gideonlevy/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Thu, 22 May 2025 04:38:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/gideonlevy/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/gideon-levy-gaza-burns-israel-turns-on-itself/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/gideon-levy-gaza-burns-israel-turns-on-itself/#respond Thu, 22 May 2025 15:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1284064 Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist, author and columnist at Haaretz. Levy describes how genocide has become normalised and the internal problems that are building within Israel.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/gideon-levy-gaza-burns-israel-turns-on-itself/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-auschwitz-to-gaza-with-a-stopover-in-the-hague/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-auschwitz-to-gaza-with-a-stopover-in-the-hague/#respond Sun, 29 Dec 2024 16:03:51 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1277704 This bitter and not-so-subtle irony of history supplies a surreal confluence that was nearly unimaginable before now : merely to imagine the prime minister landing in Krakow, arriving at the main entrance of Auschwitz and being arrested by Polish police at the gate, under the slogan « Arbeit macht frei » (« Work sets you free ») ; merely to consider [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-auschwitz-to-gaza-with-a-stopover-in-the-hague/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israel-wants-wars-gideon-levy-on-lebanon-ceasefire-gaza-govt-sanctions-against-haaretz/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israel-wants-wars-gideon-levy-on-lebanon-ceasefire-gaza-govt-sanctions-against-haaretz/#respond Thu, 28 Nov 2024 16:55:00 +0000 We’re joined by Israeli journalist Gideon Levy as we continue our conversation on the Israeli-Lebanon ceasefire. We take a look at the mood within Israel, where Levy characterizes the Israeli public as “sour” about what is seen as a premature deal. “They would like to see more blood, more destruction in Lebanon,” says Levy. “Israel [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israel-wants-wars-gideon-levy-on-lebanon-ceasefire-gaza-govt-sanctions-against-haaretz/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/death-of-sinwar-wont-end-israels-war-while-u-s-gives-netanyahu-free-rein-in-gaza/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/death-of-sinwar-wont-end-israels-war-while-u-s-gives-netanyahu-free-rein-in-gaza/#respond Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:33:19 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1273960 Israel announced Thursday it had killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza, releasing a video allegedly showing Sinwar’s final moments before his death after Israeli forces in Rafah attacked the building he was in. After the announcement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared “this is not the end of the war in Gaza.” In Tel [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/death-of-sinwar-wont-end-israels-war-while-u-s-gives-netanyahu-free-rein-in-gaza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-looming-catastrophe-in-the-middle-east-w-gideon-levy/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-looming-catastrophe-in-the-middle-east-w-gideon-levy/#respond Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:41:42 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1273002 It has become quite rare to hear any meaningful accountability for Israel’s actions from Israeli citizens themselves. Israeli journalist Gideon Levy is an anomaly in Israel by today’s standards, as for his entire career he has challenged the apartheid and occupation of the Israeli state. On today’s episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Levy joins [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-looming-catastrophe-in-the-middle-east-w-gideon-levy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israelis-must-ask-themselves-if-theyre-willing-to-live-in-a-country-that-lives-on-blood/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israelis-must-ask-themselves-if-theyre-willing-to-live-in-a-country-that-lives-on-blood/#respond Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:50:59 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272446 Israel is turning, with alarming speed, into a country that lives on blood. The daily crimes of the occupation are already less relevant. Over the past year, a new reality of mass killing and crimes of an entirely different scale has emerged. We are in a genocidal reality; the blood of tens of thousands of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israelis-must-ask-themselves-if-theyre-willing-to-live-in-a-country-that-lives-on-blood/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/netanyahus-end-game-why-israel-assassinated-hamas-chief-in-iran/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/netanyahus-end-game-why-israel-assassinated-hamas-chief-in-iran/#respond Thu, 01 Aug 2024 15:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1270216 Two assassinations. Two capital cities. Less than 24 hours. One struck an apartment in downtown Beirut, killing a woman and two children – targeting a Hezbollah senior commander. Then just hours later, a strike in the heart of Tehran, assassinating Hamas’ most high profile figure, and its political chief – Ismail Hanieyah. Israel has claimed [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/netanyahus-end-game-why-israel-assassinated-hamas-chief-in-iran/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gideon-levy-getting-rid-of-netanyahu-is-not-enough/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gideon-levy-getting-rid-of-netanyahu-is-not-enough/#respond Wed, 17 Jul 2024 19:25:48 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1269442 Since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, Israel has been in a state of emergency. The country is governed by a war cabinet, military censors black out selected reports and expel certain foreign media, and the devastating war in Gaza rages on. It is often said in Israel that Hamas alone is to blame [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gideon-levy-getting-rid-of-netanyahu-is-not-enough/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/let-israels-leaders-get-arrested-for-war-crimes/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/let-israels-leaders-get-arrested-for-war-crimes/#respond Sun, 05 May 2024 14:51:14 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1265923 One may, of course, reply in the negative to the first question – Israel is not committing any war crimes in Gaza – thereby rendering the rest of the questions superfluous. But how can one answer in the negative in the face of the facts and the situation in Gaza: about 35,000 people killed and another [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/let-israels-leaders-get-arrested-for-war-crimes/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/an-israeli-incursion-into-gazas-rafah-will-be-an-unprecedented-humanitarian-catastrophe/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/an-israeli-incursion-into-gazas-rafah-will-be-an-unprecedented-humanitarian-catastrophe/#respond Sun, 11 Feb 2024 16:03:42 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1262035 All we can do now is to request, beg, cry out: Don’t enter Rafah. An Israeli incursion into Rafah will be an attack on the world’s biggest displaced persons camp. It will drag the Israeli military into committing war crimes of a severity that even it has not yet committed. It is impossible to invade [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/an-israeli-incursion-into-gazas-rafah-will-be-an-unprecedented-humanitarian-catastrophe/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/gideon-levy-on-how-israels-press-is-failing-to-cover-the-wars-true-toll/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/gideon-levy-on-how-israels-press-is-failing-to-cover-the-wars-true-toll/#respond Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:29:51 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1260893 We speak with acclaimed Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, columnist for Haaretz and a member of its editorial board, about how the Israeli media has covered the war on Gaza, the genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice and more. Levy says the domestic Israeli media all but ignores the Palestinians being killed, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/gideon-levy-on-how-israels-press-is-failing-to-cover-the-wars-true-toll/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/theres-no-way-to-explain-the-degree-of-death-and-destruction-in-gaza/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/theres-no-way-to-explain-the-degree-of-death-and-destruction-in-gaza/#respond Thu, 28 Dec 2023 18:36:58 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1259924 The evil can no longer be hidden by any propaganda. Even the winning Israeli combo of victimhood, Yiddishkeit, chosen people and Holocaust can no longer blur the picture. The horrifying October 7 events have not been forgotten by anyone, but they cannot justify the spectacles in Gaza. The propagandist who could explain killing 162 infants in one [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/theres-no-way-to-explain-the-degree-of-death-and-destruction-in-gaza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-israel-abuses-the-hostages-that-it-holds/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-israel-abuses-the-hostages-that-it-holds/#respond Mon, 25 Dec 2023 15:59:50 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1259789 That’s their weekly party, according to released prisoners. Four prisoners have died since the war began on October 7, almost certainly from beatings. Nineteen guards who participated in these sick parties are under investigation, suspected of causing one prisoner’s death. Hundreds of Palestinians who were detained in the Gaza Strip have been kept bound and blindfolded [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-israel-abuses-the-hostages-that-it-holds/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/it-is-forbidden-to-even-empathize-with-innocent-gazans/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/it-is-forbidden-to-even-empathize-with-innocent-gazans/#respond Thu, 26 Oct 2023 15:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1256427 And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Upon the face of the abyss of the massacre in the south, darkness is taking hold of Israel. Now it is still a gathering of clouds, but it may turn to darkness: Israel is going mad. The left is “wising up,” the right is growing more [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/it-is-forbidden-to-even-empathize-with-innocent-gazans/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-blood-of-iconic-journalist-redder-than-blood-of-anonymous-palestinians/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-blood-of-iconic-journalist-redder-than-blood-of-anonymous-palestinians/#respond Sun, 22 May 2022 11:00:40 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1058499 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-blood-of-iconic-journalist-redder-than-blood-of-anonymous-palestinians/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-brief-history-of-killing-children/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-brief-history-of-killing-children/#respond Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:01:05 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1052141 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-brief-history-of-killing-children/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/jewish-national-fund-for-apartheid/ 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