Israeli effects show return of Netanyahu’s far right
Intolerance of gay rights and non-observers: Where Netanyahu and other Western right-wing leaders have tentatively embraced LGBT rights in recent years, Israel’s far right is blatantly hostile.
Smotrich was an anti-LGBT rights activist in his youth and, more recently, drew attention to comments made about Israel’s burgeoning gay community. “Feeling uncomfortable being abnormal. “
Ben Gvir used to protest Gay Pride parades as “abominations,” since then advising a slightly softer stance last year.
“Gay men are my brothers and lesbians are my sisters,” she said in an interview with Comunicate Display, “but I’m opposed to walking down the street in my underwear. “
Critics say the comments are based on an ultra-conservative view of Israeli society. Yitzhak Wasserlauf, a 30-year-old best friend of Ben Gvir who is expected to win a Knesset seat, criticized the Jewish liberal reform motion for making a “mockery of religion. “by celebrating marriages with a rabbi and a priest.
Smotrich, a lawyer by profession, called for primary legal reforms. Their warring parties say they are designed to allow government force to do things like crack down on asylum seekers or even judicial interference from parties to the conflict and that women’s rights will be nullified.
After Israeli elections, Palestinians will have to vote
Acceptance of violent extremism: Kahane contributed to the birth of the Israeli far right by advocating a hateful and violent type of Jewish nationalism. He served in the Knesset for 4 years, but was well boycotted by other politicians and banned from Israeli politics in 1988. racism; Two years later, he was murdered.
But the risk of far-right violence he brought from the United States still hangs over Israeli politics. After negotiating the Oslo Accords with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in 1995. Police temporarily drew a line between the killer and Kahane. -Outside groups.
Ben Gvir, then a young far-right agitator exempt from Israeli military service because of his political beliefs, had threatened Rabin 3 weeks before his assassination.
Although he himself has been convicted of violence, Ben Gvir has defended far-right violent extremists in court (such as Smotrich, a lawyer) and has been convicted of inciting racism and supporting a terrorist group. For years, he hung an image of Baruch Goldstein, an American Israeli far-right extremist who massacred Palestinian worshippers.
Recently, he brandished an armed confrontation between police and stone-throwing Palestinians in East Jerusalem, and called on police to fire live ammunition.
Rights teams have accused Smotrich of peddling settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. And while he is now allied with Netanyahu and proposing legal reforms that could allow the former prime minister to escape from prison, he has shown little interest in the guy. of the cynical but pragmatic politics advocated by Netanyahu.
In a secret recording released in last month’s campaign, Smotrich was heard calling Netanyahu a liar and suggesting that it was his own intervention that halted the center-right Likud party’s plans to become the best friend of Israel’s Arab parties.
“Wait a bit. With Netanyahu, physics or biology will do their job,” Smotrich said in the recording, according to The Times of Israel. “I probably wouldn’t be here forever; At some point, he will be convicted by the court. or whatever. Be patient. There is no doubt that Netanyahu is a challenge, but you have to decide between one challenge and another. “