Populism ends with a phone call Yesterday I was also checking my phone anxiously to see what was going on in Hungary’s election.

Last night Viktor Orbán conceded Hungary's election after 16 years in power. The man who said "the homeland cannot be in opposition" called his opponent to congratulate him. I didn't see that coming.
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1.3K views · 39 reactions | 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐊𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐡? אתמול דיברתי בהפגנה בבאר שבע- I spoke at the Beer Sheva Demonstration last night 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐊𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐡? If... 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐊𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐡? אתמול דיברתי בהפגנה בבאר שבע- I spoke at the Beer Sheva Demonstration last night 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐊𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐡? If they told us a story about....

I spoke about the difference between a democratic government and the current Israeli regime at a demonstration last week
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The Israeli internal crisis isn't about restoring democracy, nor is it a pendulum movement. It's a hollowing out of democratic institutions, opposition, and all means of oversight and accountability. It is, as Navot and Goldshmidt show, an elite-driven project to dismantle Israel's flawed democracy.

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Thinking of calling my forthcoming book "Laclau meets convolutional neural networks" to boost sales

Frontiers | The deconstruction of the Israeli state

In a thought-provoking new paper 👇, Doron Navot and Yair Goldshmidt show that Israel's crisis is a culmination of a project that challenges the authority of unelected state institutions, thereby dismantling and deconstructing the state. Relevant far beyond Israel. shorturl.at/5x58i.