Israel's election shows its democracy is a sham, but the West can't stop buying the lie

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The same racist, Zionist logic that justified the Gaza genocide is now making it impossible for the Jewish opposition to reach a deal with Palestinian parties to oust Netanyahu Israel’s general election last week unmasked beyond question the West’s much-cherished fiction of Israel as a "Jewish and democratic state". That Israel’s democratic pretensions are taken seriously should in itself be astounding. For decades Israel has been given a free pass - revered even - as the "only democracy in the