Netanyahu is the democratic elected official of a large public, whose voice is not represented in the mainstream media, academia and the High Court - but can influence political representation • Opinion
Suppression of the Second Israel's Right to Participate in the Democratic Game - Scandal
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Israel's first campaign to overthrow Prime Minister Netanyahu cannot be seriously discussed unless the forbidden point of discussion is touched upon: it is a campaign that is part of the suppression of the second Israel's right to participate in the democratic game. Netanyahu is the democratic elected official of a large public, whose voice is not represented in the mainstream media, who has no representation in academia, the judiciary and the High Court, so all he has in Israeli democracy is the ability to vote and influence political representation. Than the plunder of the Hersh sheep.
To obscure this fact, that the attack on Netanyahu is an attack on his Mizrahi voters, more and more puzzling allegations are heard in the public debate that deny the clear facts about the Mizrahi voting pattern for the right. "Who are you to determine that Israel is second in favor of Netanyahu?" A respectable group of researchers wrote in the article. Some readers will now say "this is clear", but it is known that there is a lively debate on this issue with those who claim that this is not true at all. To close this discussion, here are the clear facts.
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According to research by Camille Fox and Shmuel Rosner of the Institute for Jewish People's Policy, in the 2020 elections - 56 percent of Likud voters are Mizrahi, 30 percent Ashkenazi. 24 percent of blue and white voters are Oriental, 62 percent Ashkenazi.
And more: According to an unpublished study by Natalie Levy, a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at Tel Aviv University, in the 2015 elections (ie even before the peak of the propaganda campaign against the prime minister) between 70 and 80 percent of Mizrahis on both sides voted for right-wing parties.
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Prof. Sami Smuha also wrote to me a few days ago: "The generalization that the vast majority of Orientals, as they define themselves, are right-wing and point-right, is an empirical fact that has scientific confirmation. There is controversy over how to interpret this fact, but there is no denying it."
In fact, there is no need to go to empirical studies and important scholars. Deniers can simply go to the polls clearly identified with the first Israel and those identified with the second Israel and get the slap in the face: the more the polls are the second Israel, the more clearly the polls of parties that swore in Netanyahu's name (like Shas, which declared on the eve of the election A condition in Netanyahu, since it was clear to its senior officials that otherwise it could lose half of its power).
Look at the sample from the 2020 election. Actually you don't have to write anything other than that; The list is the document whose reading tells the story of the social crisis that Israel experienced:
Dimona: Likud 62, Shas 12; Yeruham: Likud 47, Shas 13; Tiberias: Likud 51, Shas 18; Ofakim: Likud 40, Shas 23; Netivot: Shas 40, Likud 37; Or Akiva: Likud 57, Shas 11; Ashkelon: Likud 48, Shas 10; Safsufa: Likud 58, Shas 19; Ramla: Likud 48, Shas 12; Fetish: Likud 53, Shas 28; Azaria: Likud 68, Shas 9; Zeitan: Likud 67, Shas 14; Ahisamach: Likud 69, Shas 22; Adirim: Likud 60, Shas 32; Percentage: Likud 69, Shas 23; Gadish: Likud 80, Shas 8; Alma: Likud 72, Shas 12; Avivim: Likud 71, Shas 24; Elifelet: Likud 75, Shas 8; Avital: Likud: 73, Shas 7; Zavdiel: Likud 61, Shas 30; Beit She'an: Likud 63, Shas 21.
If we sum up the voting data that emerges from the polls, we will discover the following amazing figure: it is impossible to find even one place in the significant second Israel in which Netanyahu lost, and it is impossible to find even one place in the clear first Israel in which Netanyahu won.
Accordingly, any attempt to tell the historical story of the Israeli hegemony struggle to overthrow Netanyahu in isolation from the ethnic rift and the suppression of the right of the second Israel to participate in the democratic game is not only a moral scandal, it is also an intellectual scandal.
Dr. Avishai Ben Haim is a news commentator