Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a system. Anytime he feels pressure from voters on the right, he pulls out a homegrown enemy to justify his actions and unite his supporters around him. Take for example election day in 2015, when he warned about the Arab voters allegedly being bused to polling stations by the political left. The gambit was successful: Netanyahu managed to spread fear among his voters, who rushed to the polls and kept him in power.
For Netanyahu, the most dangerous domestic enemy is the political left, and he makes abusive and frequent use of this scapegoat. In 1997, during his first term as prime minister, he was overheard whispering in the ear of the elderly kabbalist Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri, one of the spiritual leaders of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, that leftists "have forgotten what it is to be Jewish.” During his subsequent terms, nonprofits dedicated to human rights have been turned into enemies of the people, among them B’Tselem, which documents the conduct of Israelis in the West Bank, and Breaking the Silence, which reports human rights violations by Israeli soldiers against Palestinians.
