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Ben White is a writer, analyst, and executive director of The Britain Palestine Media Centre. He has written hundreds of articles for international publications and is the author of four books, including Cracks in the Wall: Beyond Apartheid in Palestine/Israel (Pluto Press, 2018) and Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy (Pluto Press, 2011).
The Israeli election results are not a seismic shift — it’s worse than that
Over the years, recognition of clear, long-term, and structural developments in how the Jewish Israeli electorate votes has been neglected, glossed over, or lost behind reactions to electoral cycles. And the pro/anti-Netanyahu paradigm — which routinely serves as a crude substitute for “right” versus “left” — has helped delay a reckoning and a fork in the road for a host of constituencies.
