An underreported news development from November/December last year is the election of the new Benjamin Netanyahu government in Israel. After a brief stint in opposition, Netanyahu has re-emerged as Israeli prime minister. Fresh elections were held, and while no single party won a clear majority, Netanyahu’s Likud party has been able to cobble together support from the ultranationalist right. His new government is a coalition of racist and fascistic minded political partners.
The writers at Electronic Intifada have analysed the composition of the new Israeli government. Netanyahu, having won another general election — the fifth one in four years — has assembled the most extremist cabinet of racists and fascists. The coalition government includes the Religious Zionist party (RZ), ultranationalist and religiously fanatical parties. For instance, the RZ includes militants from the group Jewish Power, an organisation that can accurately be described as an Israeli KKK.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of the Jewish Power group, is a far-right adherent of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane. The latter was the founder of an ideological and political trend now known as Kahanism, a form of Judeo-supremacy. Kahane advocated the expulsion of all Palestinians from the occupied territories, the building of settlements, and the creation of a Jewish-supremacist state. Ben-Gvir is the new minister of national security.
Read the article by Rupen Savoulian in Green Left.