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[–] Joe_McCarthy [S] 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

I would say no. But both are probably closer than the US. If we think of fascism as authoritarian nationalism - Israel has elements of ethnonationalism inasmuch as its leadership has openly said it seeks to maintain a 80% Jewish majority in an explicitly Jewish state, and Russia has elements of authoritarianism and to a lesser extent nationalism.

But fascism is something else. Even considering the fascist minimum, or bare basics, or what Umberto Eco called ur-fascism, or eternal fascism, or a set of ideas that transcend any specific system, I don't think a fascist regime exists today.

But maybe I'll change my mind after I finish Griffin's book.

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[–] Helena73 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Recall that any member of the jewish race, even someone who’s ancestry have not lived in the levant for 1500 years or more, can automatically obtain citizenship. And although some Israelis live fairly liberal or decadent lives even, the state props up the orthodox community(it’s also a theocracy imo) who are truly living to achieve the palingenetic utopia. Let me know if he touches the third rail. Maybe some islamic regimes fit the bill.

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[–] Joe_McCarthy [S] 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago  (edited ago)

If we look to something like citizenship based on some kind of right of return - a number of European countries would probably come closer to an ancestral, or at least racial standard, than Israel would, yet I would not call, say, Ireland a fascist state of any sort. But in places like Ireland, or Norway, or Italy, it is possible to obtain citizenship in those countries if one has ancestry from there going back a few generations.