Netanyahu brokers deal with racist party ahead of 2019 Israel Elections

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[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

*awaits the Israeli lobby to cry anti semitism when someone points this out*

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

*awaits the Israeli lobby to cry anti semitism when someone points this out*

I still wonder how they were able to monopolize the word Semitic? A lot of Semitic peoples outside of the Jews.

 

[Robbie3000]

*awaits the Israeli lobby to cry anti semitism when someone points this out*

Looks like publicly all the Jewish groups are like

 

[ORDER_66]

Nothing surprises me anymore... I've always suspected alot of hardline right wing jewish groups to have turned their eye to white racism & white nationalists when it suited them because they work together...

 

[hashmander]

they are white people with a different religion. the scam they've been pulling for so long is convincing certain people they too are a minority. "but the jews overcame this and that why can't you?"

 

[hayesc0]

I'm sick of Israel's bullshyt.

 

[mbewane]

Their own government is basically extreme-right too. Sructural racism against Palestinians, arbitrary killings, anti-migrant stance. They've been coddling up with various Eastern Europe nationalist movements too.

 

[mbewane]

The reality is that the four states composing the Visegrad bloc—Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic—form a common entity imbued with hostility to the values of the Enlightenment, to human rights, to the concept of a nation as a community of citizens, to the principle of equality, and, generally speaking, to foreigners.

Indeed, this is the natural place of an Israel dominated by a nationalist, occupying, and colonialist right wing that does all it can to efface whatever remains of the liberal principles inscribed in its unwritten laws and legal system since its inception. If Netanyahu—who earlier this week enthusiastically encouraged the violent right-wing extremist party Otzma Yehudit to join hands with his frequent coalition partner Jewish Home—is successful in the elections to be held in April, these liberal democratic remnants will be wiped out.

Despite Netanyahu’s latest spat with the Polish government, present-day Poland is beloved on the Israeli right and represents a sort of political and moral ideal. That is the basis of this partnership. This also applies, of course, to the Hungary of Orban, the man mounting a crusade to insulate Christian, white, and nationalist Europe from the non-European world full of poverty and refugees.

More than 50 years later, Jewish nationalism has become so radical that today very little is left of the liberal aspect of Zionism, and the Nationality Law passed last year by Israel’s Knesset stated it precisely: Israel is a Jewish state, and the Jewish national community takes precedence over the community of citizens and is morally, judicially, and politically superior to it—so that the Arab citizens of Israel, 20 percent of the population, have effectively become second-class citizens. This is nothing compared to the situation in the occupied territories, where a form of apartheid is rampant and an occupation permits the theft of Palestinian land.

Moreover, Israel has become a state with which white racists in Europe can identify. Indeed, far-right Europeans feel they can learn from Israel how to deal with strangers from Africa and local Muslims.

After some 800 years of continuous Jewish history on Polish soil and with the revival of the Polish state after World War I, the Jews enjoyed Polish citizenship, but they were never considered part of the Polish nation. The Poles define themselves as Catholics—and anyone who is not Catholic is not Polish.

The nationalistic and xenophobic Israeli right has no trouble in identifying with this point of view. In their view, only a Jew is regarded as a true Israeli. A person who is not Jewish may be a citizen, but the political and legal concept of citizenship is considered a fiction in comparison with the concept of the “Jewish people.” According to the new Nationality Law, the State of Israel belongs to the Jewish people, not to the community of citizens, which also includes non-Jews.

Why Benjamin Netanyahu Loves the European Far-Right