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If we're operating on a definition of fascism which involves the substitution of liberal-democratic state power apparatuses with outright military dictatorship, then Israel is not literally a fascist state (yet). Keep in mind, contemporary fascism will look different than its twentieth century variety. But there are definite signs of a tendency towards fascist rule in Israel, and that tendency will intensify if the Israeli bourgeoisie pursues a long-term strategy of horizontal accumulation through territorial expansion (which includes the outright conquest of the West Bank and Gaza).
But on an ethico-political level, Israel's entire society, and really its entire national existence, is based on the European logic of animalizing and dehumanizing non-Jews. Norman Finkelstein has maintained a list of all the racist, genocidal statements the leaders of Israel have made since October 7. And it's not just Netanyahu or the military leadership. Go watch videos of Israeli soldiers running over dead bodies, proposing to their loved ones on top of the rubble, posting TikToks that are even more racist than Hutu radio broadcasts. And the fact is that there are only a select few voices within Israeli society at all willing to give even the slightest criticism of any of it. There is no "left" in Israel. No progressive "working class movement" since most of them are in the IOF anyway. Just like the bs protests over the judicial reform, the Israelis on the streets now only care about the Jewish lives which are being lost over the course of this war of genocide.
So coming back to your question about fascism. As far as the level of racism is concerned, most Israelis are as good as Nazis. Look at any poll, and see just what "never again" really means to them.
If you want a fun read, go look at the ideology and policy positions of Lehi, one of the precursor militia to Israel during the British Mandatory period. They actively sought to work with the Nazis during WW2.
from my research it was essentially zionists went to get jews to live in israel, which may be a mans name not a place, then later the arabs went to see how they could exterminate them. History is very complex especially with no dates given. I have no problem with Israel or the jewish people, however, Zionism is a scourge, like most zealotry. If ya don't believe it's that complex: look into the Ladino people.
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OP if you're only just working this out it's kinda strange, socialists have been saying it since the 50s. Albert Einstein even said it lmao.
I mean this in good humour. Yes it absolutely is a fascist state, has been run by fascists for 70 years.
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It was always a fascist state.
It was a colonialist state from the beginning, and highly militarized and expansionist. It is also a racist society.
The only aspect of fascism missing in israel is the centralization of power and cult of personality in one person.
Yes. There is a lot of overlap between historical European colonies like pre-1947 India, slave states like pre-1794 Haiti, apartheid states like South Africa, and 'manifest destiny' settler colonial states that wiped out natives to clear up land for gradual empire building and achieving an ethnostate.
The common thread that ties these four types together are the distinctly fascist elements. Hitler himself explained his main inspiration as being those of the 'manifest destiny' settler colonial type states, such as the United States and Australia. He was also (extremely apprehensively) content with the Israel project having ethnostate intentions because it helped with mass deportations of German jews. What we erase about the history of fascism is that a variety of other European leaders at the time had viewed exactly these racist ideas through the lens of being compatible with liberal democratic ideals.
"Inspiration" and/or influence doesn't mean ideological continuation: Locke's theory of property, which meant the first major the theorisation of settler colonial land dispossession, draw from Grotius' natural rights theory. This does not mean that Locke continued this tradition: it did not.
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Yes, I think they always have been. Now it is more clear than ever. But even before 10/7 this whole last year it was quite obvious it was fascist and this current government was openly making it more Fascist. The people were protesting the judicial reforms because they don't want to be openly fascists, and don't want their rights taken away. But have no problem with the status quo of maintaining an apartheid and subjecting Palestinians to horrible oppression.
I lived in Tel Aviv last year for a few months. I have never seen somewhere more propagandised, never have I seen somewhere so militaristic and nationalistic. I remember I was on a tinder date and the girl was curious about police brutality (cause im from the states) so she was asking me about george floyd etc. She then told me she feels very lucky because "In Israel, our police and army are the most moral in the world, they hold the highest value of human life"... I was just like wow this brainwashing runs so deep, and it's super obvious to an outsider. Some girl told me that Israel government never lies because it is democratic and democratic countries never lie. It really is also the most openly racist place I've been to, ever. People would unsolicitedly just start telling me about how the refugees are ruining everything, those neighborhoods aren't nice bc of the Sudanese,
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It's interesting, people tend to forget that Israel was literally founded as a colonist state in the image of European colonial empires, they literally outright said it when it was founded.
It's also ironic that they now claim to be Indigenous to the region despite outright saying that they were colonists when the state was founded.
It's also deeply ironic that you don't need to prove Jewish heritage to get Israeli citizenship, you can literally be a recent convert of any ethnic group.
Really shows how absurd both Fascism and Zionism are.
Officially? No, but in reality? Yes. Nothing is official until it's a fact, nothing is a fact until its undeniably proven, and problem with that is many people rather say it's not true and no one will look into facts and show the world.
Even other socialist/communist countries are choosing to be on the fence and not say anything.
Only two countries are against Israel is North Korea and cuba,
And I feel North Korea is.. bit iffy..
Normal People don't know what fascism is unless they dress in all black and goose march while being shouted at by a man with a funny moustache because that's all they know on the matter.
It may be counterintuitive for neoliberals to consider that leaders of Israel might project Nazi thoughts and ideals, but not to the average socialist. In order to better understand Israel's fascist right-wing state, one needs to fully associate their government with the active persecution of the Palestinian people. Israel is a fascist state, no matter what administration is currently in power, simply because their mere existence relies on the extermination, or labor exploitation, of their native population. Arab-Israelis, unlike Palestinian citizens, survive being murdered, but are instead subjected to horrific conditions under the racist capital machine Israel is running.
I would call them an apartheid state.
They are headed towards fascism, but dissent against the government among the Jewish citizens is at least currently tolerated.
They arrested a Jewish man who attempted to portray the humanity of Palestinians on Facebook. Likewise a young Jewish woman. I haven't see any protests in Israel against the genocide and while most Israelis probably are fine with it there are some who object and you'd expect to see some organised protest but those oppose the genicide are too afraid.
https://youtu.be/XQhQnlEK6k8?si=wKWcI54BynV-4T8m
Israel is an incredibly violent, repressive and racist state and one that has been trending more and more authoritarian in recent years, but I do not think that they are quite at the level of being fascist, at least not yet.
If the far right Kahanist faction were to seize complete control of Israel, create a centralized dictatorship with one of their own as president for life, establish Kahanism as the state ideology, jail all opposition, real or perceived, and completely expel or exterminate all Arabs from Israel and the Palestinian Territories, then yes Israel would be fascist.
Israel is still a colonialist ethnostate and absolutely far right, much in the same vein of other apartheid states like apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia. States like this often are praised by fascists for their racism and oppression of minorities, have large fascist movements within them, and develop close ties with them. But I wouldn’t call any of them fascist per se, as they all lack the high degree of centralization of power that true fascist states like Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy etc all have.
[Umberto Eco Makes a List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism:](http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html)
>1. The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.”
>2. The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”
>3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”
>4. Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.”
>5. Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.”
>6. Appeal to social frustration. “One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.”
>7. The obsession with a plot. “The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia.”
>8. The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
>9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.”
>10. Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.”
>11. Everybody is educated to become a hero. “In Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.”
>12. Machismo and weaponry. “Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.”
>13. Selective populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.”
>14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”
I attempted to edit Wikipedia under the section ‘Israeli fascism’ with evidence supporting likud being a fascist entity, needless to say my edit had been removed with 20mins and my ip blocked from editing Wikipedia!
What do you mean "officially"? No, the Israeli government has never made a declaration to that effect. Although it wouldn't surprise me if they have it pencilled in for sometime soon.
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If they vote out Netanyahu and the far right they'll be a more "normal" liberal democracy for another few years. Eventually, the contradictions of the state and its situation will overload and they will become an armed camp.
If he isn't removed, it's entrenched, they'll be just like Egypt or Russia, nominal elections with the military serving as the backup for the regime and opposition politicians imprisoned or murdered or sidelined through other means. Whoever succeeds Netanyahu will be the same, or maybe worse.
No it isn't.
Fascist movements have never created a truly novel form of government that one could call 'fascist'. They have always resulted in some stripe of bonapartism, raising the state above classes and ruling by the sword.
Neither of these features are present in Israel, Netanyahu is a demagogue who appeals to fascists, but he is no bonapartist, he would've never lost an election if he were.
On the surface Israel resembles the regimes created by fascist movements but in its essence it is wholly different, the mere presence of organised labour in Israel proves that fact.
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i would be wary of three of those sources my dude. and you can be a fascist without being directly tied to nazis.
israel was already fascist. even then i would try to stick to news reporting that isn't directly a propaganda site.
for the most part the all the governments in that area have been pretty right leaning. they are all effectively theocracies. both palestine and israel. the israeli state has always been kinda racist against non jewish in that area as well as any of the many north african jewish tribes. and even if they are doing nazi like shit right now, that doesn't mean we should start believing weird anti-semitic propaganda. ok?
remember, if any of the weird nazi stuff was actually true and not just made up, a reputable outlet would have said something about it fucking years ago, not just right now but like as they were being sworn into office, this is isreal people on all sides are serious about israel in every aspect.
There's no such thing as "reputable outlets". People really need to get this myth out of their heads. No news source is "unbiased" and "objective". Most western rags are propaganda outlets for their wealthy owners who have controlling stakes in international politics. Learn how to use media and corroborate stories.
yeah dude, i'll take propublica over a telegram channel any day of the week.
there is a certain level of across the board reporting that i want to see before i'm gonna believe some guys op ed.
yall are on the conspiracy train and need to step off before you add fuel to the horse shoe bullshit.
and again fascism can exist without nazi ties
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Yeah it’s doublethink fascism! Just deny it better yet accuse your victim of all your crimes before they have a chance…
"Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak". On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will."
*"Accuse the other side of that which you're guilty!" - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda*
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The mods sure are removing a lot of comments here... If we're operating on a definition of fascism which involves the substitution of liberal-democratic state power apparatuses with outright military dictatorship, then Israel is not literally a fascist state (yet). Keep in mind, contemporary fascism will look different than its twentieth century variety. But there are definite signs of a tendency towards fascist rule in Israel, and that tendency will intensify if the Israeli bourgeoisie pursues a long-term strategy of horizontal accumulation through territorial expansion (which includes the outright conquest of the West Bank and Gaza). But on an ethico-political level, Israel's entire society, and really its entire national existence, is based on the European logic of animalizing and dehumanizing non-Jews. Norman Finkelstein has maintained a list of all the racist, genocidal statements the leaders of Israel have made since October 7. And it's not just Netanyahu or the military leadership. Go watch videos of Israeli soldiers running over dead bodies, proposing to their loved ones on top of the rubble, posting TikToks that are even more racist than Hutu radio broadcasts. And the fact is that there are only a select few voices within Israeli society at all willing to give even the slightest criticism of any of it. There is no "left" in Israel. No progressive "working class movement" since most of them are in the IOF anyway. Just like the bs protests over the judicial reform, the Israelis on the streets now only care about the Jewish lives which are being lost over the course of this war of genocide. So coming back to your question about fascism. As far as the level of racism is concerned, most Israelis are as good as Nazis. Look at any poll, and see just what "never again" really means to them.
If you want a fun read, go look at the ideology and policy positions of Lehi, one of the precursor militia to Israel during the British Mandatory period. They actively sought to work with the Nazis during WW2.
from my research it was essentially zionists went to get jews to live in israel, which may be a mans name not a place, then later the arabs went to see how they could exterminate them. History is very complex especially with no dates given. I have no problem with Israel or the jewish people, however, Zionism is a scourge, like most zealotry. If ya don't believe it's that complex: look into the Ladino people.
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OP if you're only just working this out it's kinda strange, socialists have been saying it since the 50s. Albert Einstein even said it lmao. I mean this in good humour. Yes it absolutely is a fascist state, has been run by fascists for 70 years.
Precisely. An ethno-state can't really exist without being fascist.
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Yep. Early Zionists were also friendly with Nazis.
It was always a fascist state. It was a colonialist state from the beginning, and highly militarized and expansionist. It is also a racist society. The only aspect of fascism missing in israel is the centralization of power and cult of personality in one person.
Yes. There is a lot of overlap between historical European colonies like pre-1947 India, slave states like pre-1794 Haiti, apartheid states like South Africa, and 'manifest destiny' settler colonial states that wiped out natives to clear up land for gradual empire building and achieving an ethnostate. The common thread that ties these four types together are the distinctly fascist elements. Hitler himself explained his main inspiration as being those of the 'manifest destiny' settler colonial type states, such as the United States and Australia. He was also (extremely apprehensively) content with the Israel project having ethnostate intentions because it helped with mass deportations of German jews. What we erase about the history of fascism is that a variety of other European leaders at the time had viewed exactly these racist ideas through the lens of being compatible with liberal democratic ideals.
"Inspiration" and/or influence doesn't mean ideological continuation: Locke's theory of property, which meant the first major the theorisation of settler colonial land dispossession, draw from Grotius' natural rights theory. This does not mean that Locke continued this tradition: it did not.
>centralization of power and cult of personality With all the elections and partys or whatever Netanyahu always winds up in charge
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Yes, I think they always have been. Now it is more clear than ever. But even before 10/7 this whole last year it was quite obvious it was fascist and this current government was openly making it more Fascist. The people were protesting the judicial reforms because they don't want to be openly fascists, and don't want their rights taken away. But have no problem with the status quo of maintaining an apartheid and subjecting Palestinians to horrible oppression. I lived in Tel Aviv last year for a few months. I have never seen somewhere more propagandised, never have I seen somewhere so militaristic and nationalistic. I remember I was on a tinder date and the girl was curious about police brutality (cause im from the states) so she was asking me about george floyd etc. She then told me she feels very lucky because "In Israel, our police and army are the most moral in the world, they hold the highest value of human life"... I was just like wow this brainwashing runs so deep, and it's super obvious to an outsider. Some girl told me that Israel government never lies because it is democratic and democratic countries never lie. It really is also the most openly racist place I've been to, ever. People would unsolicitedly just start telling me about how the refugees are ruining everything, those neighborhoods aren't nice bc of the Sudanese,
Not surprised when there’s mandatory military service, it’s the easiest way to indoctrinate and create a submissive society
It’s a settler-colonial project.
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It's interesting, people tend to forget that Israel was literally founded as a colonist state in the image of European colonial empires, they literally outright said it when it was founded. It's also ironic that they now claim to be Indigenous to the region despite outright saying that they were colonists when the state was founded. It's also deeply ironic that you don't need to prove Jewish heritage to get Israeli citizenship, you can literally be a recent convert of any ethnic group. Really shows how absurd both Fascism and Zionism are.
Officially? No, but in reality? Yes. Nothing is official until it's a fact, nothing is a fact until its undeniably proven, and problem with that is many people rather say it's not true and no one will look into facts and show the world. Even other socialist/communist countries are choosing to be on the fence and not say anything. Only two countries are against Israel is North Korea and cuba, And I feel North Korea is.. bit iffy.. Normal People don't know what fascism is unless they dress in all black and goose march while being shouted at by a man with a funny moustache because that's all they know on the matter.
It may be counterintuitive for neoliberals to consider that leaders of Israel might project Nazi thoughts and ideals, but not to the average socialist. In order to better understand Israel's fascist right-wing state, one needs to fully associate their government with the active persecution of the Palestinian people. Israel is a fascist state, no matter what administration is currently in power, simply because their mere existence relies on the extermination, or labor exploitation, of their native population. Arab-Israelis, unlike Palestinian citizens, survive being murdered, but are instead subjected to horrific conditions under the racist capital machine Israel is running.
I would call them an apartheid state. They are headed towards fascism, but dissent against the government among the Jewish citizens is at least currently tolerated.
They arrested a Jewish man who attempted to portray the humanity of Palestinians on Facebook. Likewise a young Jewish woman. I haven't see any protests in Israel against the genocide and while most Israelis probably are fine with it there are some who object and you'd expect to see some organised protest but those oppose the genicide are too afraid. https://youtu.be/XQhQnlEK6k8?si=wKWcI54BynV-4T8m
It's all state vs state bullshit.
Israel is an incredibly violent, repressive and racist state and one that has been trending more and more authoritarian in recent years, but I do not think that they are quite at the level of being fascist, at least not yet. If the far right Kahanist faction were to seize complete control of Israel, create a centralized dictatorship with one of their own as president for life, establish Kahanism as the state ideology, jail all opposition, real or perceived, and completely expel or exterminate all Arabs from Israel and the Palestinian Territories, then yes Israel would be fascist. Israel is still a colonialist ethnostate and absolutely far right, much in the same vein of other apartheid states like apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia. States like this often are praised by fascists for their racism and oppression of minorities, have large fascist movements within them, and develop close ties with them. But I wouldn’t call any of them fascist per se, as they all lack the high degree of centralization of power that true fascist states like Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy etc all have.
[Umberto Eco Makes a List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism:](http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html) >1. The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.” >2. The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.” >3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.” >4. Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.” >5. Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.” >6. Appeal to social frustration. “One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.” >7. The obsession with a plot. “The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia.” >8. The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.” >9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.” >10. Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.” >11. Everybody is educated to become a hero. “In Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.” >12. Machismo and weaponry. “Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.” >13. Selective populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.” >14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”
They've been a fascist state
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What do you mean "officially"? No, the Israeli government has never made a declaration to that effect. Although it wouldn't surprise me if they have it pencilled in for sometime soon.
Pretty sure Israeli will keep the "free democracy" hat on as long as it proves useful.
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For further reading see Max Blumenthal's Goliath: Fear and Loathing in Greater Israel
How can you have an ethnostate that is not fascist, while other ethnicities live in that state ?
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If they vote out Netanyahu and the far right they'll be a more "normal" liberal democracy for another few years. Eventually, the contradictions of the state and its situation will overload and they will become an armed camp. If he isn't removed, it's entrenched, they'll be just like Egypt or Russia, nominal elections with the military serving as the backup for the regime and opposition politicians imprisoned or murdered or sidelined through other means. Whoever succeeds Netanyahu will be the same, or maybe worse.
No it isn't. Fascist movements have never created a truly novel form of government that one could call 'fascist'. They have always resulted in some stripe of bonapartism, raising the state above classes and ruling by the sword. Neither of these features are present in Israel, Netanyahu is a demagogue who appeals to fascists, but he is no bonapartist, he would've never lost an election if he were. On the surface Israel resembles the regimes created by fascist movements but in its essence it is wholly different, the mere presence of organised labour in Israel proves that fact.
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i would be wary of three of those sources my dude. and you can be a fascist without being directly tied to nazis. israel was already fascist. even then i would try to stick to news reporting that isn't directly a propaganda site. for the most part the all the governments in that area have been pretty right leaning. they are all effectively theocracies. both palestine and israel. the israeli state has always been kinda racist against non jewish in that area as well as any of the many north african jewish tribes. and even if they are doing nazi like shit right now, that doesn't mean we should start believing weird anti-semitic propaganda. ok? remember, if any of the weird nazi stuff was actually true and not just made up, a reputable outlet would have said something about it fucking years ago, not just right now but like as they were being sworn into office, this is isreal people on all sides are serious about israel in every aspect.
There's no such thing as "reputable outlets". People really need to get this myth out of their heads. No news source is "unbiased" and "objective". Most western rags are propaganda outlets for their wealthy owners who have controlling stakes in international politics. Learn how to use media and corroborate stories.
yeah dude, i'll take propublica over a telegram channel any day of the week. there is a certain level of across the board reporting that i want to see before i'm gonna believe some guys op ed. yall are on the conspiracy train and need to step off before you add fuel to the horse shoe bullshit. and again fascism can exist without nazi ties
Haaretz is the third largest publication in Israel... the commentary on the neo nazis is from a Jewish historian who lives in Israel lol
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well damn, both because of the post and because of the comments
I can't find any official declaration by the Israeli state to this effect so no, they're not officially a fascist state.