The danger of treating Smotrich as an anomaly
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In advance of Bezalel Smotrich’s visit to the USA (now taking place),Edo Konrad stresses the dangers of treating him as an anomaly.
“The selective outrage over Smotrich,” he writes, “while justified, risks obscuring the fact that he is a product of a larger system of dispossession and subjugation”
Furthermore:
“the shortsighted attempt to compartmentalize Israeli extremists — to treat them as inherently more repugnant than “mainstream” hawks and nationalists — is not simply doomed to fail. It will, in fact, only enable more violence. Israeli society refused to recognize that Kahanism drew from the rivers of Zionism, rather than the other way around, only to find that it would return to dominate public life. American Jewish organizations are now making the same mistake.
This article was originally published by +972 Magazine on Thu 9 Mar 2023. Read the original here.
The danger of treating Smotrich as an anomaly
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