By forcibly adopting anti-LGBT rhetoric, the Israeli right is marking itself as a counter-movement, writes Oren Ben Hakon. In recent years, certain wings of the secular, ostensibly liberal right have an obsession with gender discourse in general, and with transgender people in particular, he says.
Ben-Hakon: Homophobia in general — and transphobia in particular — is a prominent flag in the wave of moral panic that is sweeping over American conservatism. He says Israel's social democratic left failed – or never really wanted to succeed.