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| | “There is a feeling of siege,” Yonathan Nowogrodski, a 43-year-old engineer and decades-long community leader who identifies as center-left Zionist, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. | | “There is a feeling of siege,” Yonathan Nowogrodski, a 43-year-old engineer and decades-long community leader who identifies as center-left Zionist, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. |
| | Since the Second Intifada in the late 1990s, the voice of pro-Israel activists on the left has been pushed aside by an increasingly well-organized Palestinian community, especially on university campuses, Nowogrodski said.</blockquote></ref> | | Since the Second Intifada in the late 1990s, the voice of pro-Israel activists on the left has been pushed aside by an increasingly well-organized Palestinian community, especially on university campuses, Nowogrodski said.</blockquote></ref> |
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| − | Father-of-nine Kast is against abortion, same-sex marriage and immigration. He has also praised the military dictatorship under General Augusto Pinochet.
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| − | "We all want things to change but destroying the country is not the way," he says, admitting that as a business owner he's in a difficult position...
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| − | In turn Mr Boric, a former student protester, has played on his rival's authoritarian connections - Mr Kast's father was recently revealed to have been a member of the Nazi party.</blockquote></ref>
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| | == See also == | | == See also == |