Europe’s Rising Right-Leaning Political Parties Lean In on Robust Support for Israel

The electoral shake-up around the corner in Europe could reverberate in Israel, too — but in an encouraging way.

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The leader of the far-right party Party for Freedom, Geert Wilders, talks to the press . AP/Peter Dejong, file

By now the narrative is so familiar it is almost soporific: Europe’s right-wing parties, or most of them, are poised to leap ahead of many of their rudderless left-wing counterparts in the EU’s parliamentary elections 10 days from now.

That has most of the reflexively liberal press from Politico to CNN in something of a panic, to the extent that it obscures a far more interesting question — namely, exactly what the “far right” intends to do with the power it could find itself wielding after June 9. 

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