Talk:Far-right politics in Israel/GA1

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Nominator: Alon Alush (talk · contribs) 11:19, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Generalissima (talk · contribs) 18:01, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've been noting your progress on this one. Great work so far! However, I think a good article nomination is drastically premature at the current juncture; a lot more work needs to be done, and I think it fails Good article criteria 3a in terms of broad coverage of the topic. Notable gaps I can see in coverage:

• Lack of any coverage of far-right politics prior to the Six Day War. Israel was not founded in 1967, and there are absolutely notable far-right groups and movements prior to this.
• Lack of academic sourcing which connects the Israeli far-right to international far right movements or even to pre-existing currents within broader Israeli politics or earlier Zionist movements; you are mainly using modern news articles, which are essentially primary sources for this: you cannot base an article on that. There are dozens of articles on far-right and fascist politics in Israel that you can find via Google Scholar; take a look at these and use them. Just from a quick search I was able to find a number of sources which might be a good starting place.
  • Bichler, Shimshon, Jonathan Nitzan, and Robin Rowley. "Fascism in Israel. The Funding of Fascist and Neo-Nazi Movements: 1970-1990." (1989).
  • Tamir, Dan. Hebrew Fascism in Palestine, 1922–1942. Springer, 2018.
  • Pedahzur, Ami. The triumph of Israel's radical right. Oxford University Press, USA, 2012.
  • Sprinzak, Ehud. "The Israeli radical right: History, culture, and politics." In Encounters With The Contemporary Radical Right, pp. 132-161. Routledge, 2019.
  • Pedahzur, Ami. "Supporting conditions for the survival of extreme right‐wing parties in Israel." Mediterranean Politics 5, no. 3 (2000): 1-30.
• You give a cursory overview of one far-right party (Kach), and only cursory glances at others, such as recent cabinets being heavily far-right. A reader without background knowledge would assume the 37th Cabinet has essentially identical political views to Meir Kahane, and you know this is not the case. You should dive into the existing major far-right parties; Otzma Yehudit is a big one at the moment, and it's only given a few brief mentions!
• You do not distinguish between far-right Religious Zionism and the secular far-right. Both of these exist as movements.
• You give a brief list of terrorist attacks committed by far-right groups, but do not put this in a wider context, or give an indication which groups were in favor of this and which were not.

You have done a good job, but this article needs far more work. You need a mass revision of sources in favor of academic coverage of this topic, and you need a much broader scale. Look at Far-right politics in Serbia. This is only currently existing "(X)-wing politics in (Y)" article, and it is what you should be judging your article against. Once you have a similar amount of detail and sourcing as that article, I would suggest re-nominating. Until then, keep working. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 18:01, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]