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Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Baruch Kimmerling

Baruch Kimmerling is professor of sociology of politics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and coauthor with Joel Migdal of Palestinians: The Making of a People (Harvard University Press, 1994)

MER Article

On Elections in Israel

On June 5, 1996, Binyamin Netanyahu (Likud) became the ninth prime minister of Israel. Soon after his election he successfully replaced the ruling Labor-led coalition with a Likud-led coalition of secular and religious right-wing parties led by his ruling Likud party. This was the third electoral up

Baruch Kimmerling • 12 min read

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Sprinzak, Ascendance of Israel's Radical Right

Ehud Sprinzak, The Ascendance of Israel’s Radical Right (Oxford, 1991). Most of the sociopolitical and historical research on Israel to date has oddly concentrated on the so-called left-wing sections of this polity. Even when recently some researchers (like Shapiro, Heller or Shavit) deal with the

Baruch Kimmerling • 3 min read