Far-right Otzma Yehudit supporters struck dumb by dire exit polls

The results of the exit polls from the three major TV networks indicate that Otzma Yehudit did not cross the electoral threshold in today’s election

They are met with utter silence in the far-right party’s Jerusalem headquarters.

“What is as clear as ever is that we were right all along when we said that without Otzma Yehudit there is no right wing government,” party member and chairman of the anti-miscegenation Lehava extremist group Benzi Gopstein tells supporters immediately after the exit poll results flashed across the projector screen.

“Apparently, Bibi wants to make a leftist government with Gantz,” Gopstein adds.

Trying to calm the several dozen young party activists crammed into the basement office in the capital’s Givat Shaul neighborhood, the former chief of staff of the extremist rabbi Meir Kahane, Baruch Marzel, tells supporters to get some sleep and “pray for better results in the morning.”

The supporters sing a quick round of “Am Yisrael Chai” before slowly filing out of the party headquarters.

— Jacob Magid