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Vibrant Israeli Democracy and the Trending Twitter Hashtag #askhamas

16 March 2023

HonestReporting's Yarden Frankl joins VOI's Josh Hasten in-studio to talk about the media. This week's coverage of Israel focuses on the upcoming election. Yarden notes the vibrancy of Israeli democracy and compares it negatively to the complete absence of voting and other democratic rights among the Palestinians. He also discusses the #askhamas Twitter campaign, and the response of a famous actor to an anti-Semitic attack.

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