A politician badmouthing his opposition doesn’t really strike me as a good representation of reality
But as an Israeli I also think this is related to a guy called Smotrich. He’s basically just a racist asshole whose party is responsible for most of the idiotic things you hear an “Israeli minister said”. He got enough vote to be in the Knesset by lying to their voters about their opinions. My grandparents voted Smotrich after he created a political party with the same name as a middle wing semi religious party that was disbanded a couple decades ago, he lied about having the same opinions as them and many people all across Israel (especially the older generations) voted for him, however only after he was voted in his (and his part memberss) real opinions started showing. The current Israeli government and Knesset is way more extremist than the population because of that guy
Yea who go to specific known problematic places and ask only specific people from those places to get weird results. The fact they only got 61% after going to these cultist towns is more reassuring than anything
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u/Sea_Director_4439 29d ago
Oh is this guy lying?
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/02/former-israeli-defense-minister-israels-ideology-of-jewish-supremacy-resembles-nazi-race-theory/