The Agony of Living through Jingoism

Why it's so hard to cut through the nationalist fervour and talk humanist politics

Posters from a demonstration against Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government’s attacks on the judiciary, from April 2023. The poster on the left has caricatures of Netanyahu and his finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich. The one on the right features Theodor Herzl, father of the Zionist movement from the turn of the 20th century, looking on wi…