What Next: The Far Right’s Alarming Rise in Israel

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🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Though just last year he was ousted from office amidst corruption charges, Benjamin Netanyahu has returned to power, leading a coalition of three hard right-wing parties. Palestinians inside Israel are concerned that some of their leaders are now emboldened in their goal of expelling Arabs from the country. Guest: Peter Beinart, professor of journalism and political science at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York and an editor-at-large at Jewish Currents. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Amicus—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.8	As an American, sure, he was anxious going into our midterms last week.
0:56.6	That is an Orthodox Jew.
1:00.5	How closely were you watching the election in Israel?
1:05.9	Quite closely, especially in the last couple of weeks as the really things came to a head.
1:17.5	Legislative elections in Israel wrapped up just a few days before our own.
1:22.1	Going into this contest.
1:24.1	It seemed like the results were on a razor's edge.
1:27.6	But then in something tipped in the closing days and because of the peculiarities of the
1:34.4	system, then the way voting was distributed, Benjamin Netanyahu and his right wing,
1:39.9	his extremely right wing coalition, is unprecedentedly right wing religious coalition, actually ended
1:45.4	up with a very large victory.
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