There’s a lot of racism, a lot of hatred’: Far right gains predicted as Israel heads to the polls

Whether or not Netanyahu can hold on to power, Israelis are expected to vote in a more rightwing Knesset Four decades ago, when the extremist rabbi Meir Kahane won a single seat in Israel’s Knesset, other legislators passed a law to prevent him running again, left the chamber when he rose to speak and worked together to block discussion of his ethnonationalist proposals.

These ranged from mass expulsions of Palestinians to apartheid provisions such as segregated beaches and the criminalisation of sex between Jews and gentiles.

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