General Discussion

There used to be a time, if I recall correctly, when the Labor Party held the majority of Knesset seats and was the only party in history able to form a government without forming coalitions.

This changed when Israel's politics went global, and this might explain why the right wingers took over and how. The right wingers in Israel get enormous support, and not just financial, mostly from the right wing religious zealots, Jewish and Christian, in the US, Europe and elsewhere.

Conversely, Israel's left not only gets no support globally, but the traditional antisemitic elements in the West and the newly formed antisemitic elements in the Global South not only ignore Israel's left, but make no distinction between the left and the right, or the religious and the secular segments of Israeli society, and actively demonize both with equally extreme prejudice. Since these activities come largely from the supposedly enlightened Western progressives, the popular resentments within Israel increasingly, and naturally, trend against Israel's secular democrats who are seen as the allies of those who openly despise and undermine Israel as a whole.

The Israeli right wingers could not have taken over Israel without the active assistance, in equal measure, from both the global right wingers and the global left wingers outside Israel.

Edited to add: to me as a Jew, political and ideological affiliation is very important, and my presence on this site makes clear of what it is, but it is secondary to resisting antisemitism in all its forms. The history of my people taught me this lesson.