Opinion: How an election defeat triggered a carnival of racism against Palestinians

Opinion: How an election defeat triggered a carnival of racism against Palestinians day before the Israeli elections, I was walking through a well-heeled, leafy neighbourhood in West Jerusalem, five minutes from President Issac Herzog’s official residence. I was on my way to interview an expert on Palestinian citizens of Israel, who were expected to vote in large numbers for the first time. Three children - they could not have been more than seven or eight - jumped off the slides in a playground and ran towards me. One of them asked whom I was going to vote for. A funny question, I thought,…