The Knesset is suffering from malignant Kahanism. On Sunday, it enacted a law unrelated to the government coup, the legislative process of which did not encounter public or parliamentary opposition and did not earn its supporters cries of “shame on you!” Yet it is no less dangerous to democracy than the coup, and it proves that the processes of fascism are in full swing.
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
This is merely the same system that has been used for decades to oppress Palestinians. Fascism does not stop growing and will come for people who thought they were part of the in group.
This is sadly the next in a long list of similar atrocities in apartheid Israel. An Israeli Arab man was convicted of rape after consensual sex with a Jewish woman. This is just another law to help reinforce the apartheid.
Israel has become more extreme and rightwing against Palestinians since the 80s, not less
