Eitan Tzelgov
@etzelgov.bsky.social
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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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Yael Shomer, @etzelgov.bsky.social‬, and I have a new editorial in Frontiers. We review the multiple crises in Israeli politics since 2019 and summarize 6 articles published in a “Research Topic” related to these crises. We also review the scale of democratic backsliding before and during the war.
Frontiers | Editorial: The crises of the Israeli democracy
The Crises of the Israeli Democracy:Introduction to a Research TopicJune 9, 2025Introduction: Israeli Democracy’s CrisisDuring the past ten years, Israel has...
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Thinking of calling my forthcoming book "Laclau meets convolutional neural networks" to boost sales
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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.
Frontiers | The deconstruction of the Israeli state
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