Yet Another Reason Why Israel Is Nothing But A Facist State

FASCISM ON DISPLAY IN TEL AVIV

State-wide censorship of sexually explicit material on the internet. Laws prohibiting driving vehicles on the Sabbath and Jewish holidays. Women allowed to bathe in the Mediterranean only a few hours a week. The face of Baruch Goldstein on the 20 shekel bill. A national holiday celebrating our spiritual founding father, Rabbi Meir Kahane.

Tel Aviv exhibit paints Israel's fascist future

In a new art exhibit in Tel Aviv, viewers become witness to a future Israel where right-wing religious extremists have ousted opponents and democracy. Creator Even Kama says the world he depicts is not just science-fiction. 
 

Flag of the outlawed Kahanist party. In Kama's dystopian imaginings, ultra-nationalist Rabbi Meir Kahane is the "spiritual founding father." [Wikimedia Commons]
Haaretz reported Friday:
State-wide censorship of sexually explicit material on the internet. Laws prohibiting driving vehicles on the Sabbath and Jewish holidays. Women allowed to bathe in the Mediterranean only a few hours a week. The face of Baruch Goldstein on the 20 shekel bill. A national holiday celebrating our spiritual founding father, Rabbi Meir Kahane.
Sound ludicrous? It's the nightmare scenario of art school graduate Yosi Even Kama - and the subject of his 4th-year thesis project. Any Israeli can step into his dystopia, on exhibit at the Shenkar College of Engineering & Design in Ramat Gan until the end of July.
"I read the most recent survey of Israeli society and I was shocked," Even Kama recalled. That report, commissioned by the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research at Tel Aviv University, found that most Israelis believe that "there is too much freedom of expression" in Israel.
The project consists of… snapshots in time from the streets of Tel Aviv, between the years 2020 to 2023. In this twisted parallel universe, the government of Israel finally signs a peace deal with the Palestinians, in which it agrees to withdraw from the West Bank and share control over Jerusalem.
Incensed by what they believe to be high treason, Jewish supremacists manage to mobilize tens of thousands of Israeli citizens and successfully carry out a coup d'etat. In the newly-established State of Judea, there is no freedom, no feminism, and no fun. Only fascism.
So this is what will come to pass in only ten years' time? "It won't happen exactly like that. But it's already happening right now, bit by bit: the loyalty oath law, the religious conversion law, the ban on commemorating the naqba, the ban on demonstrating at the homes of high-ranking army officers... When you break down the basic building blocks of democracy, fascism will fill that void."
Kama’s exhibit has seen a maelstrom of condemnation as well as support. On the site srugim.com, a website outlet for nationalist-religious voices in Israel, many have posted vilifications of both his work and Shenkar for supporting it, Haaretz reported. But other exhibit visitors have expressed support. “I would use different colors,” said one Israeli, “but this is basically what I believe.”
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