{"id":239168,"date":"2026-08-06T22:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/239168\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T22:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:41:09","slug":"how-the-pro-netanyahu-channel-14-turned-israels-identity-politics-on-its-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/239168\/","title":{"rendered":"How the pro-Netanyahu Channel 14 Turned Israel&#8217;s Identity Politics on Its Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-subtitle\">Discussing opposition politician Gadi Eisenkot, the pro-Netanyahu channel achieved the identity-politics singularity: ethnicity is no longer inherited but determined at the ballot box. All you need to do is ask how someone votes. Bibi? You&#8217;re Mizrahi. Anti-Bibi? Mazel tov, you&#8217;re Ashkenazi<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">Identity politics has imploded. This week, right-wing media personality Yinon Magal said about opposition politician Gadi Eisenkot that &#8220;They&#8217;re always bringing up Eisenkot&#8217;s mother with her head covering and her Moroccan accent. With all due respect, his daughter got married on Shabbat evening not long ago, without a rabbi or chuppah.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Discussing opposition politician Gadi Eisenkot, the pro-Netanyahu channel achieved the identity-politics singularity: ethnicity is no longer inherited but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[48004,41,5292,16707,37,6425,25871,2742,16705,57089],"class_list":["post-239168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-ashkenazi","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-channel-14","tag-gadi-eisenkot","tag-israel","tag-israels-media","tag-israeli-elections","tag-israeli-politics","tag-likud","tag-mizrahi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117050978196333639","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}