“Tag Mechir” and Jewish Right-Wing Nationalism: Notorious Label or a Badge of Honor?

Abstract

On November 2020, members of the Knesset’s (Israeli parliament) Security and Foreign Relations Committee engaged in a heated debate, discussing one of the most disputed issues in an already-divided Israeli society : can Jewish terror attacks in fact be legally compared to Palestinian jihadist terrorism? Alongside national security considerations, judicial power and questions of challenging state’s monopoly on violence, the answer, in part, lies in internal political developments presenting radicalization of religious right-wing extremists, expressed in the use of the term “Tag Mechir” (Price-tag)...