Extreme speech has surged under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 's far-right government and can be heard at the highest levels ahead of Israel's Oct. 27 elections.
With just days before the vote, Israeli think tank OFEK shared a spreadsheet with The Associated Press listing 227 extreme comments made this year by officials, as part of an ongoing project tracking incitement. While Netanyahu has not used the rhetoric of his far-right allies, he campaigns with the slogan “right or Palestine,” which some critics have called incitement.
