PM backs Regev: ‘Fascism’ is left’s term for its enemies

3 August 2016, 3:30 pm

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hits back at critics of Culture Minister Miri Regev, who accused her of borderline fascist remarks when she questioned why the government could not control the message of the state-funded public broadcaster.

“Fascism is a derogatory term of the left for its enemies,” Netanyahu tells a special session of the Knesset to commemorate the late right-wing Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky.

“They said Jabotinsky was a ‘fascist’ — does that sound familiar? I suggest my colleagues read the Hebrew encyclopedia entry on fascism,” he says, according to Haaretz. “There’s a sentence by the author that states that ‘there was a tendency within the left to denigrate opponents as fascist.’ It is a derogatory name of the left for its enemies.”