JERUSALEM – Israeli prime minister is defending his partnership with a small ultranationalist party despite local and international condemnation.
Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday took to Twitter and called the criticism, which also came from pro-Israel Jewish organizations in the US, as "hypocrisy and double standards."
Netanyahu is seeking a fourth straight term as premier in Israel's April election.
Earlier this week, his Likud party formed a partnership with a smaller merged party that includes members of the 'Jewish Power' movement.
Jewish Power embraces ideas of late rabbi Meir Kahane, who wanted a Jewish theocracy and advocated forced removal of Palestinians.
In 1997, Washington classified his Kach movement a terrorist group.
Netanyahu accused leftist critics of having once acted "to put extreme Islamists into the Knesset" to weaken the right.
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