Summary
The extremist settler party which, in Moments of Resistance Chapter 8, was the right’s own newborn-star party in the January 2013 elections: it won votes using the images and discourses of the new generation and the claim for equal obligations, agitating against Arabs and ultra-Orthodox Jews (Moments of Resistance, PDF p.273).
Details
- It chose for its leader a young hi-tech professional with a modern, almost secular look, who avoided extremist ideological language and instead spoke the new language of social discourse, talking about housing prices and economic inequality (PDF p.273).
- In the January 2013 elections the newborn parties gained 31 seats, 19 for Yesh Atid and 12 for the Jewish Home (PDF p.273).
- After the elections the newborn parties formed a block whose joint demand was a new law of conscription for all, seeking to block a coalition with the ultra-Orthodox parties, completely distorting the social justice demands of the 2011 resistance mo(ve)ment (PDF p.273-274).
Related pages
Moments of Resistance, J14 Movement, Yesh Atid, Tribal Channeling