Understanding the ominous rise of Israel’s most notorious ultra-nationalist

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With a poll giving Religious Zionism 13 seats if headed by extremist Itamar Ben Gvir, a look at where these votes are coming from and what they say about where Israel may be headed

Otzma advocates for the annexation of the entire West Bank, but without granting Palestinians Israeli citizenship; seeks to expel “disloyal” Arab citizens from Israel without defining how such a determination be made; and encourages Arab citizens in general to emigrate so as to make Israel more homogeneously Jewish.

Beyond the political map itself, Herman noted that “chauvinistic nationalism” is on the rise in Israel in general.

The percentage of Jewish Israelis who believe Jews should have greater rights in Israel than non-Jews has risen from 25% in 2015 to 42% in 2021, according to data from the Israel Democracy Institute’s 2021 Democracy Index.

This trend is especially marked among the ultra-Orthodox, religious-Zionist and religiously traditional voters to whom Ben Gvir is appealing.

Understanding the ominous rise of Israel's most notorious ultra-nationalist | The Times of Israel

Theocratic over democratic.
Once again, this election could be very interesting

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and Lapid

Fighting internal division, hatred and incitement is at the heart of Yesh Atid’s platform, Prime Minister Yair Lapid told a crowd at Expo Tel Aviv, where the party launched its campaign on Wednesday evening.

Lapid claimed that Israel’s internal divisions, not Iran, were its most serious threat.

“Everything has changed in the last year, but not our values, not the things we care about,” said Lapid, pointing to the rule of law, strengthening the middle class, freedom of religion and the press, peace with the Palestinians, and a free economy as the goals of the party.

Yair Lapid: We will defeat incitement in fifth elections - The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)

The highlighted part??? The fact this even has to be mentioned.

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From the article in the first post

Aside from seeking to add the death penalty to Israel’s penal code, Ben Gvir has also pursued judicial reform. The Otzma leader, together with other right-wing MKs, has twice brought a bill to a vote in the Knesset which would hand the government and Knesset total control over the selection process for Supreme Court judges, rather than also involving other justices and lawyers as is currently done.

Right-wing Israelis have long seen the court as a bastion of leftism; by installing judges more friendly to right-wing causes, Otzma hopes to remake the court in its ideological image, placing Israel’s Jewish character over its democratic values.

The things that are similar to what we are seeing in the rest of the world is amazing.
Religion is rising up and attempting to take over power.

[Glorify Him]

If and it is a big IF, Israel goes down this path I believe it will lose credibility internationally. Not to mention just how wrong all of this is on so many levels.