Last weekend, The Jewish News - one of the UK Jewish community's leading newspapers - dedicated its front page to the nightmarish rise of Itamar Ben Gvir and Betzalel Smotrich, the leaders of the Jewish supremacist far-right party in Israel and their expected success at the upcoming election (see photo in the comments). The headline asked, plainly and pointedly - "Where's the outrage?".
In a response op-ed published on Friday on the Jewish News website, Joel Carmel explains that the rise of the far-right was inevitable as long as the occupation, which breeds violence and racist tendencies, is the mainstream policy of successive Israeli governments.
"As one generation of young Israeli soldiers after the next is sent to uphold a system of violent military rule over the Palestinian population and to actively deprive it of basic rights, it’s not surprising that so many of my fellow Israeli citizens have come to internalise the idea that Palestinians on either side of the Green Line simply aren’t equal to us."
Read the full article here: https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-israel-should-take.../
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