{"id":16594,"date":"2011-03-27T20:41:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T17:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/?p=16594"},"modified":"2016-05-13T14:51:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T11:51:11","slug":"israeli-leftists-hold-national-conference-in-tel-aviv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/israeli-leftists-hold-national-conference-in-tel-aviv","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Leftists Hold National Conference in Tel Aviv"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 27, 2011\u00a0| Ben Hartman | JPOST<\/a><\/p>\n

Panels covered cooperation of different\u00a0branches\u00a0of\u00a0the Leftand how to return\u00a0the Left\u00a0to the forefront of Israeli politics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Around 700 members of the Israeli Left met in Tel Aviv\u00a0on Friday for a conference meant to strategize new courses of action and chart the path of the leftwing of Israeli politics.<\/p>\n

The national leftwing conference was held at the ZOA\u00a0house in\u00a0Tel Aviv and organizers said that the turnout was double what they expected.<\/p>\n

Organized officially by Peace Now, the conference was promoted purely through social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, and lacked any sort of advertising budget.<\/p>\n

The panels at the conference covered subjects including cooperation among the different\u00a0branches\u00a0of\u00a0the Left, from the non-Zionist to the center-Left, how to return\u00a0the Left\u00a0to the forefront of Israeli politics, and what the Israeli Left\u2019s message and response should be to the recent revolutions in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

The conference hosted a number of current and former Knesset MKs from\u00a0the Left, such as Daniel Ben-Simon (Labor), Colette Avital\u00a0(Labor), Ophir Pines (Labor), Haim Oron (Meretz), and Naomi Chazan (Meretz), among others. The panels and the round-table discussions did not have a significant showing of Israeli Arabs\u00a0or politicians or activists from Israeli Arab parties.<\/p>\n

Panel discussions were often heated, with disagreement mainly focused on the concepts of whether or not to form a new leftwing party or make an alliance of all of the leftwing parties, including the non- Zionist Left. Whether or not the non- Zionist Left has hurt the mainstream Left was another contested subject at the conference.<\/p>\n

Etai Mizrav, National Activities Coordinator for Peace Now said he believes \u201cthere is an awakening of the leftwing and the turnout [at the conference] proves this. It\u2019s happening among the leftwing from the radical Left to the more moderate Left and we can get this power to come together for the next elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mizrav called the conference a big success, in particular due to the fact that the turnout was much higher than he and other organizers expected. He said that the point of the conference wasn\u2019t to hammer out any sort of agreements among the different\u00a0branchesof the leftwing, rather \u201cto launch a dialogue. We didn\u2019t try to reach any sort of agreement we were looking to build different directions wherein we can work together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 27, 2011\u00a0| Ben Hartman | JPOST Panels covered cooperation of different\u00a0branches\u00a0of\u00a0the Leftand how to return\u00a0the Left\u00a0to the forefront of Israeli politics. Around 700 members of the Israeli Left met in Tel Aviv\u00a0on Friday for a conference meant to strategize new courses of action and chart the path of the leftwing of Israeli politics. The… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17,183],"tags":[2316],"class_list":["post-16594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaigns","category-direct-action","category-press","tag-event"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16596,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16594\/revisions\/16596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}