Itamar Ben-Gvir’s extremist Jewish Power is expected to make large gains in next week’s vote, deepening Kahanism’s penetration into the mainstream of Israeli politics.
In the 2022 election, the party was only able to make it into the Knesset by forming a joint list with Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism and another small far-right group.
Four years later, it is poised to win eight seats standing on its own, making it the joint fifth-largest party in the assembly.
Ben-Gvir and his adherents are the successors to Meir Kahane’s Kach party, which was banned from elections in the 1980s for racism and later designated a terrorist organisation.
Anti-Palestinian racism has been at the forefront of the national security minister’s election campaign, the bedrock of which have been pledges to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the occupied territories and conduct mass executions of Arab prisoners.
All that is on the horizon is war and more genocide...welcome to the future!
