Netanyahu’s failed attempt to replace Shin Bet’s chief violates longstanding Israeli political taboos, as the apartheid state’s internal power struggle spirals to a new level of crisis while Gaza burns, writes RAMZY BAROUD
A new far-right movement is a threat to all of us and we must unite and drive it back
Racism must be challenged head on and that means taking on myths peddled by the far right, says SABBY DHALU

THE international rise of the far right continued and deepened further this week with the Brazilian Social Liberal Party’s Jair Bolsonaro gaining over 46 per cent of the vote in the first round of the presidential election.
Bolsonaro is the candidate favoured by Donald Trump and the international alt-right, which is co-ordinating a far-right movement in the US, Europe and Britain.
Steve Bannon, the main architect of the international alt-right movement, recently met senior Tories, Michael Gove, Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg.
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