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How to help defeat ethnocracy

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Meir Kahane was such an ethnic extremist that he was barred from the Knesset and his organisation declared to be a terrorist group by the USA. But that was then and now his followers like Itamar Ben-Gvir are accepted members of Israel’s political class; frequently given space to air their views on mainstream Israeli media; and attempting to play the role of king-maker in Israel’s evenly divided parliament. Divided not on politics but only on whether Netanyahu is a fit person to be Prime Minister.

Natasha Roth-Rowland explores how Ben-Gvir’s party, Otzama Yehudit (Jewish Power), thrives due to the prioritization of the idea of an ethnocratic Jewish state — with all the national, ethnic, and religious domination it implies — over the idea of a democracy.

This article was originally published by +972 Magazine on Thu 7 Jul 2022. Read the original here.

How to help defeat ethnocracy

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  • Unfortunately neither the political recipe suggested by the title, nor the required cooks for the recipe, are indicated in the article itself.

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  • The Title followed by the article was a bit confusing.
    The article itself is a serious worry, if these people get full power, I can only see a disaster for the Palestinians, as if they aren’t being treated badly enough. These people show that they have Nazi mindsets, I hope the UN is going to get involved.

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