Four recent films explore the rise of the far right in Israel. But by exceptionalizing their subjects, they fail to get to the roots of their ideology.
Given the accelerating normalization of religious far-right ideology in Israel in recent years, it is not surprising that filmmakers are looking to the history of right-wing fanaticism to try and figure out how Israeli politics inherited its current trends. Four films on the topic have come out in as many years: “Incitement,” which takes a trip to the inner world of Yigal Amir, the man who assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin; “The Prophet,” which charts Rabbi Meir Kahane’s career as he takes his message of righteous Jewish violence from the streets of New York to the halls of the Knesset; “The Settlers,” which tells the history of the settlement movement; and “The Jewish Underground,” about the terrorist group of the same name.
Source: https://www.972mag.com/far-right-israeli-cinema-review/