Netanyahu boosts racist far-right party with pre-election deal

[brooklynite]

Source: Axios

After two weeks of efforts, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu succeeded in forming a united ultra right-wing party that will run in the April 9 elections, paving the way for Jewish supremacists from the "Jewish Power" party to make it into the next Knesset.

Why it matters: This is an unprecedented development in Israel's history and is equivalent to a U.S. president cutting a political deal with David Duke, the former KKK leader. The prime minister and the ruling Likud Party are legitimizing a racist, xenophobic and homophobic fringe party in hopes of bolstering a right-wing bloc after the elections.

"Jewish Power" was formed by the followers of Rabbi Meir Kahane, the former leader of the Kach party, which was banned from running in Israel's 1988 elections and designated a terror organization by the Israeli government in 1994. Kach was also blacklisted as a terrorist organization in the U.S., Canada and the EU.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/netanyahu-deal-jewish-power-israel-election-be6b4501-fa62-472a-ad93-f73bb68a5cbc.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twsocialshare&utm_campaign=organic

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I had no clue that a Knesset Election was coming up, and there's no sign that Labour is likely to do any better.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Netanyahu saw MAGA worked here in the States.

Codify Israel from being a pretend democracy into a theocracy.

[Honeycombe8]

2. Oh,,,,,well, this doesn't sound good at all. Not good at all.

Just when you think the Middle East problems can't get worse, you realize they can.

[DrToast]

3. Wasn't he indicted recently?

[nycbos]

8. To my understanding the Israeli police recommended that he be indicted...

... but the AG has yet to take action.


According to my Israeli friend there have been corruption stories for years. The difference is this time the investigators had cooperators.

[sandensea]

4. Figures

His trolls and hackers helped put THIS far-right despot in office here in the U.S.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Well, David Duke DID endorse tRump's election in 2016. Perhaps there was a deal.

At this point, the tRump-RepubliCon party is "a racist, xenophobic and homophobic fringe party" that tRump legitimized.

[Blue_Tires]

6. k+r

[nycbos]

7. As someone who generally very pro-Israel this is disgusting.

[okaawhatever]

9. +100 NT

[The Liberal Lion]

10. Hmm, would it be anti-semitic to be concerned about this?

[cab67]

11. didn't know anything about Meir Kahane. What a piece of work.

Ever notice that many of the most stridently right-wing politicians in Israel were born in the US?

[Progressive Jones]

12. Boo Boo Naziyahoo needs to go. nt

[onit2day]

14. Netanyahu does so much damage to Israel's image and reputation. He is viewed

as a Jewish Nazi by many Americans. His war crimes in Gaza are viewed as crimes against humanity and should be prosecuted in the Hague.

[Mosby]

15. calling a Jew a Nazi is wrong.

[Mosby]

16. calling a Jew a Nazi is wrong.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. "followers of Rabbi Meir Kahane"

I guess it was only a matter of time before what was Kahane Kach, would be reconstituted. There's a whole new generation of young people who have been born since that group was pretty much disbanded and dispersed.