Current sectionIsrael NewsShare to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribeNobody's asking them, but they're saying No: From left, Bar Zvirin, Noor Epstein and Anton Zohar Lifsches Segal Credit: Itay RonThey are not persuaded by arguments of peace through violence. What's the point of being punk if you're going to bend and serve?05:51 AM • June 19 2026 IDTOn the balcony of the Left Bank, a radical leftist space in central Tel Aviv, a group of five teens roll cigarettes and compare their latest literary hauls. One exclaims that they picked up Kristen Ghodsee's "Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism"; another reads the group a passage of self-indulgent prose by David Foster Wallace. On the whiteboard of the room behind them – covered in Marxist and leftist posters, and furnished with chairs and sofas with shredded upholstery – are the remnants of an Arabic lesson. In the News'Nobody's Born a Soldier': The Israeli Teens Who Say the Draft Is a ChoicePalestinian Head of Wisconsin's Largest Mosque Released From ICE DetentionWhite House: Vance Not Travelling for Friday's Talks With Iran 'As of Now'Four Centuries After Sabbatai Zevi, the Jewish People Have a New False MessiahNobody's Buying Stale, Recycled Slogans From Israel's Top DiplomatRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIHumiliated by Trump on the Iran Front, Netanyahu May Set the Middle East Ablaze'Once-in-a-lifetime Discovery': 1,700-year-old Roman Busts Found in IsraelTrump and Netanyahu Hurtling Toward a Rupture That Could Shock U.S.-Israel TiesNetanyahu's Mouthpieces Turn on Trump, Revealing a Deeper Israeli IngratitudeFork Found in Kitchen: Israelis Have Discovered the OccupationIran Reportedly Calls Off Missile Strikes on Israel After Trump Intervenes