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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Emma Graham-Harrison

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

Itamar Ben-Gvir, flanked by security guards, walks through a market as people wave blue flags
Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s national security minister, is head of the far-right Jewish Strength party, forecast to win nine seats on 27 October. Photograph: Ilia Yefimovich/AFP/Getty Images

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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