Israeli left regroups to survive Trump era

Ir Amim Executive Director Yudith Oppenheimer: “We felt this sense of urgency earlier. It is not as if everything here was so wonderful until Trump was elected. We could feel the distress before that too. What is different now is that it is clear that the rules of the game have changed. What worries me most is the lack of inhibitions shared by the US administration and us [the Israeli government]. We are in the era where politics is constructed by images and emotions. [Former President] Barack Obama represented a humanistic liberal ideal, while everything here [now] is so capricious.”

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