Golan casts Jewish extremism as ‘existential threat’ to Israel after settler attack on IDF troops

28 June 2025, 1:56 pm

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Leader of The Democrats party Yair Golan leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 26, 2025. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

The Democrats chair Yair Golan describes violent Jewish extremism as an “existential threat” to Israel after settlers attacked IDF soldiers overnight.

“Maybe it is not in the headlines, but the most serious existential threat to the State of Israel is not from Iran or Yemen, but from home,” he writes on X. “Kahanist, nationalist, and fanatical Israel is deliberately working to dismantle Jewish and democratic Israel.”

He says violence against innocents and IDF soldiers is not “not a fringe phenomenon,” but a “dangerous current that has taken a deep hold, even around the government’s table.”

Golan says Israel stands at a “crossroads” where it can remain a Jewish and democratic state or go down the route of extremism and messianism.