One of the most extreme, racist governments in the short history of Israel has been driving the ongoing genocide that began on 7 October 2023.
This ultra-right coalition came to power in the November 2022 election to the Knesset. The coalition was led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but shored up by an alliance of smaller, even more fanatical right-wing parties, including the infamous Jewish Power party.
Lawmakers from that alliance were then handed several key roles in Netanyahu’s current government.
These include Itamar Ben-Gvir, the current minister for national security, now in charge of policing and prisons. Another high-profile member of this ultra-racist political force now at almost the highest level of Israeli government is Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister and settler.
Ben-Gvir is notorious, among other things, for idolizing Baruch Goldstein, the American Jewish settler who massacred 29 Palestinian people at the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron in 1994. ….more
