Abstract
ABSTRACT Turkey and Israel are known, respectively, for profound conflicts with their Kurdish and Palestinian minorities. Economic and legal liberalization waves raised hopes for expanded civic and socioeconomic inclusion but instead both countries swayed to populism. “Why were the Kurdish and Palestinian politics of hope destroyed and what did it take to do so?” We argue that the HDP and Joint List’s electoral in the 2010s threatened Erdoğan’s and Netanyahu’s authoritarian ambitions and in their endeavours to doom Kurdish and Palestinian aspirations, these leaders and their parties drew on practices and sentiments from the toolkit of populism. While the repression of the HDP has not abated, Netanyahu’s replacement in June 2021 with a diverse coalition, including an Islamic party, has dented Israeli populism but simultaneously forestalled aspirations for civic equality. Despite the dissimilarities between the cases, our comparison teases out the common trends of populist politics that threaten domestic minorities.
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