Reply To: Zionism and anti semitism
There are indeed better sources to use
Haaretz confirms that she did indeed say she was happy to be a fascist although no reference to the rest of the quote
https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-how-a-likud-mk-talked-her-way-to-the-top-1.5277198
“proudly proclaiming “happy to be a fascist” in a televised interview”
And another time calling Sudanese migrants a cancer.
In regards to the broader claim we should add that related references to the rise of fascism in Israel are made by prominent commentators inside Israel itself.
Barak, Israel’s ex-prime minister has warned that his country is “infected by the seeds of fascism.
Israeli Maj.-Gen. Yair Golan in a Holocaust Remembrance Day speech compared Israel with 30s Germany
Israeli journalist Gideon Levy warned that he saw the “first signs of fascism” in Israel.
The nationalist right-wing extremist views seldom get reported by the main news outlets here in the UK but they are very influential in directing public opinion in Israel and are not on the margins but inside the government, such as Ayelet Shaked, a justice minister, who asserted that “the entire Palestinian people is the enemy” and called for its destruction, “including its elderly and its women, its cities and its villages, its property and its infrastructure.”