Dangerous lure of the modern populist parties
Hirsh, David. 2019. Dangerous lure of the modern populist parties. The Jewish Chronicle, [Article]
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In politics, being popular is good but populism is something different, and it threatens our democracy. Left and right wing populism have a lot in common and they are both part of the same danger. Extremist ideas like racism, xenophobia and antisemitism have returned to the mainstream.
Populism splits everything into good and bad: ‘the people’ and ‘enemies of the people’. ‘The people’ is an idea, the opposite of the material diversity of flesh and blood human beings...
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populism, antisemitism, anti-semitism, 2019 General Election |
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18 Nov 2019 09:54 |
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