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Israel’s ‘democracy’ protesters destroy their own platform

The Tel Aviv mob attack on Yom Kippur has far wider resonance

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Melanie Phillips
Sep 29, 2023
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Protesters clash with Orthodox Yom Kippur worshippers in Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv

The shocking scenes in Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur not only destroyed the principal claim of Israel’s nine months-old protest movement against the government. They also illuminated a fundamental and disturbing fault-line in the wider Jewish world and the west.

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