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Annexation in the name of archeology
Armed with huge budgets, far-right Israeli ministers are pushing ahead with plans to displace Palestinians under the guise of safeguarding heritage sites.
By
Alon Arad
and
Talya Ezrahi
August 1, 2023
Land grabs. Homophobia. Radicalized police: What to expect from Israel’s far-right government
The new coalition is set to deepen colonization on both sides of the Green Line, while expanding its tools to oppress Palestinians, leftists, and LGBTQ people.
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
December 29, 2022
Ben Gvir’s dream ministry brings Kahane’s vision one step closer
With the portfolio he’s craved, the far-right lawmaker can accelerate Israel’s colonial violence against Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line.
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
November 30, 2022
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‘We survived Begin, Shamir, and Netanyahu. We’ll survive Ben Gvir too’
Despite Arab parties focusing their election campaigns on the threat of the far right, it is the Jewish center left who seem to be more afraid.
By
Baker Zoubi
November 28, 2022
Kahanism’s triumphant makeover
Itamar Ben Gvir, the star of Israel’s most far-right party, is thriving off of a national political discourse that allows him to accomplish what his predecessors could not: bringing Kahanism to the mainstream.
By
Noam Sheizaf
October 3, 2022
Netanyahu is embracing fascists — and the world is tolerating them
Itamar Ben-Gvir is not an outlier in Israeli politics; he is part of a far-right alliance that the international community has been normalizing for years.
By
Sami Abu Shehadeh
March 4, 2021
The Israeli right is erasing Arabic from Jerusalem, one street sign at a time
A campaign by right-wing activists to strike off Arabic from Jerusalem street signs goes hand in hand with government attempts to uproot the city's Palestinian identity.
By
Ben Reiff
September 24, 2020
Otzma Yehudit is out. Does that mean Israelis reject Kahanism?
While the Kahanist Otzma Yehudit party failed to pass the electoral threshold, the latest national elections in Israel saw the normalization of Kahane’s particular brand of overt racism. Twenty-one years ago, Rabbi Meir Kahane stared into the camera during an election ad for his Kach party and told viewers, “[the Arabs of Israel] want to kill…
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
September 19, 2019
Elections reveal a seismic split within Israel’s right
Once the ascendant elite, the settler movement’s political power is on the decline. By Meron Rapoport While political analysts wonder if we have come to the end of the Netanyahu era, little attention is being paid to another major outcome of this election — that is, the decline of the national religious movement’s political power.…
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+972 Magazine
September 19, 2019
Are voters about to send Kahanists back to the Knesset?
If the polls are accurate, more than 140,000 voters will vote the Kahanists back into the Knesset in next week’s election. Yet the desire for a pure Jewish state long ago moved from the margins of Israeli society to the mainstream. By Ron Cahlili One week before Israel’s national election, nearly every major poll shows the Kahanist party Otzma…
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+972 Magazine
September 11, 2019
How to stop Kahanists from taking over
Twenty-five years after a follower of Meir Kahane massacred Palestinian worshipers in Hebron, Netanyahu is basing his future coalition on a Kahanist party. Now Israelis will have to decide between apartheid and a future of hope and equality. By Raluca Ganea Reality is often too complex to draw clear lines between cause and effect. But occasionally, a single act…
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+972 Magazine
February 26, 2019
Israel’s fascist sideshow takes center stage
For the first time in over 30 years, a proper Kahanist party could be entering the Knesset. But is the rise of a party that advocates for Jewish supremacy, theocracy, and ‘total war’ as unprecedented as the outcry has suggested? The last week has been an eventful one in the annals of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s dalliances with the…
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
February 24, 2019
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