A leading figure on the Israeli left and member of the
Israeli Labour Party, Levin is considered a liberal icon.
[7][
better source needed] After losing out to
Avi Gabbay in the Labour party's elections in June 2017, he expressed his support for the winner. He has supported Breaking the Silence, and thinks the army has grown soft because of the occupation. He also believes Palestinians deserve being occupied militarily because they refused to accept the borders set out for two states in the
1947 United Nations Partition Plan. He does not accept the borders existing before the
1967 war, thinks Israel was right to conquer the
West Bank ('Judea and Samaria') and is on record as advocating the expansion of Israeli settlements. He has also opined that if Palestinians fail to abide by agreements, Israel should "tear them apart" in a future war and
forcibly transfer them to "the other side of the Jordan River",
[8][9] i.e.
Jordan.