1st Edition
The Political Right in Israel Different Faces of Jewish Populism
Introduction 1. Understanding Populism 2. Begin's Inclusive Populism 3. Netanyahu's Post-populism 4. The Radicalization of Inclusion, the Radicalization of Exclusion: the Shas Party 5. Exclusionary Populism: Avigdor Liberman's Radical Right Populism 6. An Israeli Type of Populism?
Biography
Dani Filc is a senior lecturer in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University, Israel, and he is the chairperson of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel. His areas of interest include the Israeli political system, populism and popular sovereignty, and health policies and politics. He has published the books Circles of Exclusion: The Politics of Health Care in Israel and Hegemony and Populism in Israel.
'Filc's book is both important and disturbing and goes a long way towards clarifying the direction Israel has taken since the killing of Yitzhak Rabin.' - Colin Shindler, SOAS, Jewish Chronicle, April 2010
"Filc maintains that this analysis is essential for understanding Israeli attitudes and policies and the Middle East conflict. Recommended." – D. Peretz, SUNY at Binghamton (CHOICE Oct. 2010)
