Talk:Eretz Yisrael Shelanu

who is right?

What makes this party more right than 'right'? I think painting them with one label might be a violation of categorization and BLP. There is no consensus on a litmus test for what differs between right and far-right, so we are dependant on what WP:RS use to describe it, unless something academic can be accepted. --Shuki (talk) 23:34, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

The fact that it has people like Baruch Marzel and Michael Ben-Ari in it? It's very clearly a far-right party. пﮟოьεԻ 57 07:54, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

That is clearly WP:OR and you have no way of knowing that the rest of the membership of lesser known people are similar. Until there is an agreed scale on how to rate Israeli political parties, the most widely used term should be used, and other significant opinions can also be mentioned. --Shuki (talk) 16:31, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm going to add WP:V and WP:NPOV as well. --Shuki (talk) 21:21, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Why? The statement of it being far-right is very clearly referenced. Please get over your right-wing bias and allow Israeli political parties to be labelled for what they are. пﮟოьεԻ 57 08:30, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Reply at the 3RR. N57, you disappoint me with the blatant POV and refusal to improve the article. --Shuki (talk) 19:12, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

This is just to point the obvious: the jpost source says ""The far-right Eretz Yisrael Shelanu party, led by Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo and Baruch Marzel". Btw, I think that a better description of the ideology is in place. Mashkin (talk) 13:43, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Part of reply copied here from 3RR.

Claiming the party is 'clearly far-right' without any WP consensus litmus test to judge is blatant OR and POV. The lone Jpost article does not even describe why it labels the party 'far-right' and merely uses the term in an off-hand manner. In contrast, the compromise reached at the Meretz article is that the main label is 'left' yet 'some claim' that it is far-left is deprecated and included lower down. In fact, the 'far-left' label there is well sourced to a wide variety of international media, the far-right label here is simply not. The lack of wanting to reach a compromise on Eretz Yisrael Shelanu article is suspect of the attempt to add derogatory language to an article the editors oppose (right-wing articles).

WP:AVOID The use of explicit far-left, far-right should be avoided unless it is undeniable and proven. The current use of the term in Israeli media (legitimate or not) is certainly not the same one used in other Western countries but the world reader would not know that.

There is nothing to show how this new party is more extremist on one side of the political spectrum than Meretz is on the other. Meretz supports parading homosexuals through the Jewish city of Jerusalem, supports the forced removal of Jewish settlers from homes on the West Bank, and radically supports the separation of 'church&state' on Jewish issues, while Eretz Yisrael Shelanu (and similar Jewish National Front party) support parading Israeli flags though an Arab town, supports motivating the emmigration of Arabs from Israel (not their forced removal), and encourages Israel to be more Jewish/religious. Meretz activists have been documented regularly opposing religious leaders, Eretz Yisrael members do not show the same fervour to oppose secular people. --Shuki (talk) 17:46, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

An interesting take on things. "Parading homosexuals" through the "Jewish" city of Jerusalem! "Radically" supporting the separation of "'church&state' on Jewish issues"! "Supports motivating the emmigration of Arabs from Israel."     ←   ZScarpia   18:12, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

You are making this into a massive false analogy. The key issue is that Meretz is not a far-left party (even if some on the right like to claim it is) - it is neither radical nor communist (and the argument that Meretz opposing religious leaders makes it far left is pathetic; Shinui were even more anti-clerical). Eretz Yisrael Shelanu on the other hand is a far-right party; its main members are well known far-right activists (even Arutz Sheva describes Baruch Marzel as far-right.[1]

This article in the Jewish Daily Forward also discusses the party's far-right credentials:

Wolpe, 60, from Kiryat Gat south of Tel Aviv, is a leader of the Chabad faction that believes the late Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, to be the messiah. While the Chabad mainstream tends to keep out of politics, Wolpe believes that the rebbe ordered him to promote a far-right agenda in Israel.
While his belief system is seemingly esoteric, his organization, SOS-Israel, has ensured that his views are spread widely. A newsletter, theoretically about the week’s Torah portion but focusing mainly on politics, is distributed to thousands of mainstream synagogues across the country every Sabbath.
Wolpe has achieved such renown that he has created his own political party, Eretz Yisrael Shelanu [the Land of Israel is Ours] and is confident that it will win five of the Knesset’s 120 seats — presuming a legal effort by the dovish group Peace Now to disqualify him on the grounds of racism is unsuccessful.

пﮟოьεԻ 57 08:13, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

57, this is just another label, no fact to support it and don't you think that 'guilt by association' is not too encylopedic besides WP:OR too. Please, please do you want to solve this once and for all? Can we make a WP Israel politics subproject or something? Frankly, and especially after all this, I'd like to remove any left/right labels from all WP Israel politics articles. Is Likud right, or centre-right? Is Kadima centre or centre-left, or left? The way the Israeli media has used the left/right labels is simply not the same as the rest of the world. Maybe you would actually understand the root of your 'soften the right' accusation - in articles dealing with Israeli politics and activism, there simply seems to be no left at all except in extreme cases. This reflects the POV attitude as well that the left is normal, but anything 'right' needs to be emphasized as such. See Women in Black and Women in Green for an example.

And, the ultimate issue I am trying over and over to raise and resolve is that there is no NPOV standard that we can use label Israeli political parties, politicians, and activists properly. I would expect that that would be quite important for you to settle. --Shuki (talk) 14:04, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure you're actually reading the articles if you are claiming that "in articles dealing with Israeli politics and activism, there simply seems to be no left at all".

• Israeli Labor Party: "is a center-left political party in Israel."
• New Movement-Meretz: "is a left-wing... political party in Israel"
• Hadash: "is a socialist political party in Israel"
• Meimad: "is a left-wing religious Zionist political party in Israel"

You are right about the way Israeli parties are labelled being different to the rest of the world, and the same can be extended to America. Based on the security policies of its current leadership, the ILP would probably be cast as a centre-right party in most European countries, but is still considered left-wing in Israel (a similar case would be the Democrats in the USA - very right-wing by most European standards, but considerd left-wing in the US). пﮟოьεԻ 57 15:31, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

There is one source at jpost describing the party as far right and two mentioning it merely as right. Per V, it cannot be described as far right. And frankly, no qualification to judge it as far-right. --Shuki (talk) 11:40, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

If sources describe it as both "right" and "far right", we should do the same. Shanghai Sally (talk) 03:33, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Right or Far-right

As mentioned above, we have references describing this party as both right-wing and far-right. However, the party should be described only as a far-right party for the following reasons.

1. Its most prominent members, Michael Ben-Ari (who represents it in the Knesset) and Baruch Marzel are both former Kach members, and Ben-Ari apparently still discribes himself as follower of Kahanism according to the sources on his article.
2. One of its founding factions is the Jewish National Front, another far-right organisation
3. The fact that sources can be found describing the party as being right-wing are irrelevant. One can find similar sources for the British National Party,[2][3] or even those that deny it is right-wing or that it is left-wing [4][5], but it remains clear that the BNP are far-right.
4. The Hebrew Wikipedia, which is relatively bias free (as POV pushers tend to concentrate on the English version) also describes it as far-right.

пﮟოьεԻ 57 11:47, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

"Far-right-wing" is a subset of "right-wing" so sources using both don't contradict each other. It is reasonable to use the more precise term. I see reliable sources using "extreme right wing" as well, but "far-right-wing" is good enough. Zero^talk 13:16, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Yediot calls them "extreme rightist" [6] [7] [8] Zero^talk 13:29, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Number57, you bring a tremendous amount of SYNTH. And FWUW the Hebrew WP is still quite controlled by the leftist founding admins. One reason why I don't bother there. Zero, if Yediot says something today and something else tomorrow, then you choose whatever suits your POV?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Shuki (talk • contribs)

Leftist founding admins? LOL. As I've said numerous times, I'm very tired of your repeated attempts to shift the political spectrum rightwards to fit your views. To date you have:

1. changed Hadash from left-wing to far-left [9]
2. changed Meretz from left-wing to far-left [10]
3. changed Kadima from centrist to centre-left [11]
4. removed Yisrael Beiteinu from the Far-right category [12]

Although I can just about agree with a couple of them (although if Hadash is classed as far-left due to its communist faction, how can this party not be classed as far-right with the JNF on board?), there is a clear pattern here. пﮟოьεԻ 57 14:57, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Shuki, Are you saying that Yediot sometimes calls them left wing? I looked at every mention I could find and did not see any contradiction to the description "extreme rightist" that is used explicitly at least three times. Obviously "extreme rightist" is that newspaper's consensus position. I also don't get your logic regarding the use of "right-wing". If someone says my ears are big, is that a contradiction of someone else's claim that they are very big? Zero^talk 23:16, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Zero, have I ever claimed that Yediot called them right-wing? Yes, the size of your ears is quite relative to everyone's POV. Here 57 thinks you have very large ears, I don't think so. FWIW 57, what does my edit pattern on WP matter if I am bringing sources for everything? Are you just trying to discredit me? I am not moving anything rightwards, and I am not removing your insistance at keeping far-right in the article, but you cannot ignore that some sources like Haaretz you and Zero have chosen to ignore, refer to the them as 'right-wing' as well. --Shuki (talk) 13:39, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

You seem to have missed the point above about the BNP - one can find sources mentioning various far-right parties as right-wing, but that doesn't mean they should be included, especially in the lead. пﮟოьεԻ 57 13:59, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

YOU are the one that keeps ignoring that I'm saying YOU do not have the right to force your POV onto articles. If you think a source is not reliable, than take it to the noticeboard. If Haaretz and ynetnews have said that Eretz Yisraeel Shelanu, a party you obviously despise, is 'right', than that is what we can include. --Shuki (talk) 16:22, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

The issue is not about reliability of sources. The fact that the Jerusalem Post and Daily Mail refer to the BNP as being right-wing rather than far-right does not make them unreliable, but would anyone consider editing the lead of the BNP article to say they are "right or far-right" using these references? I think Zero hit the nail on the head above. Anyway, I have asked for input from WikiProct Political Parties, so hopefully some rational input will arrive soon. пﮟოьεԻ 57 16:43, 4 November 2010 (UTC)