Almost three years ago, I suggested in a column that what is at the core of the anti-judicial reform protests and the so-called Kaplan Camp, which had developed on the basis of “anything-but-Bibi,” is not so much a fight for democracy but a struggle for cultural dominance. I opined that, under all the rhetoric and justifications, we are witnessing a form of a class conflict over national and cultural identity.
On March 12, I wrote in this newspaper that the fight among competing parties and the various civic societies is not one on behalf of democracy per se as much as it is a struggle over cultural dominance. I insisted that regime hegemony is at the root of the protests. However, that “regime” is what Israeli sociologists had defined as our own local WASP elite.
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