'It's a war on Israel's liberal democracy': the Israeli left as a moral panic community, 2015-19.
This article examines the discourse of the Israeli Left in the years preceding the succession of general elections in 2019–21, with a focus on claims of the purported threats to democracy presented by the right-wing government. Rhetorical analysis of opinion pieces and political commentary in the pr...
| Publicado en: | Israel Affairs Vol. 28; no. 6; pp. 878 - 896 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2022
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