Talk:Meretz

Social Democratic?

The party is Democratic socialist. or at least that's what they state. יונתן שושן (talk)

Third party descriptions are more reliable than self-descriptions. Cheers, Number 57 10:48, 16 July 2021 (UTC)

Ideology in Infobox

If anyone does not object, I will reduce the eight Ideologies listed in the Infobox to just three. The eight currently listed is overkill, and contains vague philosophies and policy platform goals, or simply redundant ("secularism" is clearly redundant when describing a social-democratic party). The three "social democracy", "green politics" and "Labor Zionism". Anything else can be described in the Ideology section.--Autospark (talk) 15:27, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Sounds reasonable to me. Number 57 16:08, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

I support this move, although I would prefer if "progressivism" stays in the infobox since they are noted for their egalitarian and socially progressive views. --Vacant0 (talk) 18:45, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

I have to admit, I would find it a bit redundant to list "progressivism", given that that's generally a generic term for centre-left politics, and we already would have social democracy and green politics as broad ideological terms. I'm not completely objecting, just bringing up that issue. Perhaps list "social democracy", "green politics" and "Labor Zionism", and describe in the article lede that the party is known for its strong socially progressive views – what do you think, Vacant0?--Autospark (talk) 22:09, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

Sure, that can do too. --Vacant0 (talk) 22:11, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

@Number 57: At this moment, the infobox seems to be bloated with "ideologies", should I clean it up to only include ideologies that we agreed on in this discussion above? --Vacant0 (talk) 12:36, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

@Vacant0: Go for it! Cheers, Number 57 23:44, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Done. Vacant0 (talk) 12:08, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

@Vacant0: @Number 57: I notice that the two-state solution appears in the ideology inbox of the following parties: Labour, Yesh Atid, Hadash, Mada, Ta'al, Joint List, Ra'am.

5.102.204.143 (talk) 20:43, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

@Vacant0: thanks for reducing it down to that core three. TBH, the articles for most Israeli parties list too many ideologies in their Infoboxes (we don't need six to eight listed per article, as seems to be the usual).--Autospark (talk) 14:46, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

It would be even better if we could reach consensus for other parties. Vacant0 (talk) 15:30, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Position-far left

Why isn't this party to be considered as a party, representing a fringe group on the political sphere, whose positions and policies have shifted to extremism 2A0D:6FC7:212:7F94:76B5:531:1E0E:C90D (talk) 22:18, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

they might be the furthest party on the left but this doesnt make them far-left Braganza (talk) 06:42, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

Hadash is arguably far-left - Meretz certainly isn't. Wellington Bay (talk) 00:54, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Rebranded logo

In July 2022 the Meretz logo was rebranded by Re-Lavant studio and they made a switch with the party colors:

1.  #162066  r22 g32 b102, Pantone 2746c
2.   white
3.  #23e164  r35 g225 b100, Pantone 7479c

They explained it with: In order to graphically express the great change that took place when Meretz entered the government, and the change we want to take place in the way Meretz voters perceive the party as a result, we will perform a "reversal" in the party's colors. From the lead of the green color, which is traditionally associated with Meretz, to the entry of green into surfaces of "state blue" (Meretz itself is the bright and strong green that entered the system) I updated the article with the new logo, but I think, according to this, that we should also update the main meta color of the party accordingly Sokuya (talk) 11:09, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

Just saw the party color was updated by PLATEL, thanks. Sokuya (talk) 23:00, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Oh no, I just figure out the change in the moudle also changed and override all the past use of the party logo. So now Meretz color in article of Israeli general election (infoboxes) is not matching the color of Knesset results diagram images. Sokuya (talk) 22:09, 17 September 2022 (UTC)