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May Golan (Likud MK & minister; anti-asylum-seeker activist) — on Sean Hannity's Fox News show (~2016, per JTA), framing opposition to African asylum-seekers as legitimate border protection via a Trump parallel: "this is the same thing in Israel. I… and the rest of the people of Israel, have the right to protect their homes, and its borders." The anti-immigration / ethno-nationalist-populist pole.
Politician: May Golan
Original source: https://www.jta.org/2023/04/20/politics/may-golan-who-once-identified-as-proud-racist-offered-israels-top-diplomatic-post-in-nyc
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I can see here what's going on with Donald Trump. They're calling him racist just for wanting to protect the borders of his country. Well, this is the same thing in Israel. I think I, and the rest of the people of Israel, have the right to protect their homes, and its borders. English translation
[Source is English (Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 20 April 2023, quoting her remarks on Sean Hannity's Fox News show during Donald Trump's presidential candidacy, ~2016; she spoke in English on US television); tier-2, confirmed verbatim against the fetched page. Exact air-date not pinned, so published_date left null. The content_original is anchored on her substantive border/immigration argument; her separate, widely-reported "proud racist" rally declarations (2012–2013) and cruder rally rhetoric are summarized in context rather than reproduced, and her preceding line on the same show — that the word "racist" "has just lost all meaning to me" — is noted here but excluded from the verbatim (curly-glyph quoting).] Declared position of May Golan — a Likud Knesset member and government minister (Social Equality and Advancement of the Status of Women, from 2023), who first rose to prominence as the leading grassroots ACTIVIST AGAINST AFRICAN ASYLUM-SEEKERS (whom she terms "infiltrators") in south Tel Aviv, campaigning for their deportation on demographic, security and "Jewish-state" grounds. She frames opposition to immigration as the legitimate right of a nation to protect itself: "They're calling [Trump] racist just for wanting to protect the borders of his country. Well, this is the same thing in Israel. I… and the rest of the people of Israel, have the right to protect their homes, and its borders." She has defiantly embraced the "racist" label thrown at her ("If I am racist for wanting to defend my country… then I'm a proud racist," 2013) and styles herself "the mother of the politically incorrect." This is the ISRAELI ANTI-IMMIGRATION / ETHNO-NATIONALIST-POPULIST pole — restrictionism on asylum and migration, demographic preservation of a Jewish majority, and border-and-neighborhood "protection" — a distinct axis (immigration / asylum / demography) not captured by the territorial (Orit Strock), security (Israel Katz), or culture-war (Avi Maoz, Miri Regev) right. [Axes: immigration / asylum (deport African asylum-seekers / "infiltrators"; border restrictionism; the south-Tel-Aviv campaign), nationalism / demography (preserving a Jewish-majority state; ethno-nationalism), populism (anti-"politically-correct"; "the people of Israel" framing; the Trump parallel), identity (Jewish-state character over migrant-rights / asylum obligations).] How to cite this document
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(Golan, n.d.) Golan, M.. (n.d.). May Golan (Likud MK & minister; anti-asylum-seeker activist) — on Sean Hannity's Fox News show (~2016, per JTA), framing opposition to African asylum-seekers as legitimate border protection via a Trump parallel: "this is the same thing in Israel. I… and the rest of the people of Israel, have the right to protect their homes, and its borders." The anti-immigration / ethno-nationalist-populist pole.. jta.org. Retrieved July 28, 2026, from https://www.jta.org/2023/04/20/politics/may-golan-who-once-identified-as-proud-racist-offered-israels-top-diplomatic-post-in-nyc
Golan, May. n.d.. "May Golan (Likud MK & minister; anti-asylum-seeker activist) — on Sean Hannity's Fox News show (~2016, per JTA), framing opposition to African asylum-seekers as legitimate border protection via a Trump parallel: "this is the same thing in Israel. I… and the rest of the people of Israel, have the right to protect their homes, and its borders." The anti-immigration / ethno-nationalist-populist pole.." jta.org. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://www.jta.org/2023/04/20/politics/may-golan-who-once-identified-as-proud-racist-offered-israels-top-diplomatic-post-in-nyc.
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