30/01/2023
The Trotskyist daily paper “News Line”, which is published by the Workers Revolutionary Party, says the far right coalition government in Israel, assembled by Prime Minsiter Benjamin Netanyahu, is dismantling democracy, wiping out checks and balances in the legal system and opening the way to what it calls “a dictatorship of religious zealots and fascist elements who openly call for the forced removal of every Palestinian and Arab in a violent campaign of ethnic cleansing.”. In addition, the extremist parties that make up the right wing of the coalition have made bizarre suggestions that fascist medics could refuse to treat LGBTQIA+ people. The “News Line” paper goes on: “OVER 10,000 people took to the streets of the main Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Saturday in protest against the policies unveiled last week by the new right-wing government. … protesters waved LGBTQ pride flags. Palestinian flags were also present with placards that read: ‘The settler government is against me’ and ‘Democracy in danger’ and even one banner that read ‘crime minister’. One demonstrator from the Standing Together group told the Jerusalem Post: ‘Extremists and dangerous actors in the newly established government are already planning on how to hurt all of us’ adding the plan of the reactionary coalition was ‘How to deepen racial discrimination against Arab citizens, how to cut social budgets, how to discriminate on gender.’
