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11/10/22 Meeting – Israeli Elections

With the results of the 2022 Israeli elections released, the PSC invited Professor Bernard Avishai for a discussion about the significance and implications of Netanyahu's new government. After reviewing the basic structure of the Israeli government and Knesset, we discussed the far-right nature of this new coalition, which includes extremists like Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. As a club, we had a thoughtful and engaging discussion with Professor Avishai, whose perspectives on the long-term conservative drift in Israeli politics were insightful and important to consider with this new government, which is the farthest right in Israel's modern history. How this will affect the already alarming levels of anti-Arab racism and Palestinian repression in the country is unknowable, but as a club we were able to make some predictions for the future.