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How Netanyahu Revived Jewish Supremacism and Paved Its Way to Power

If Meir Kahane hadn't come to Israel, his toxic Brooklyn-born racism would have withered away. But his ideology found fertile ground, shed its accent and has now been legitimated by Israel's prime minister

Anshel Pfeffer
Anshel Pfeffer
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On Saturday, I noted on Twitter that the successfully transplanted from the United States to Israel was the racist Jewish supremacism of the Brooklyn-born Rabbi and that, apart from him, American Jewish immigrants to Israel failed to have much of an impact on contemporary Israeli politics.

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