The battle against genocide necessarily involves battling against the emergence of fascist governments. As most people know, we are having a major crisis in Israel these days in dealing with what many of us perceive as serious steps towards fascist types of governance. The following is an article that I succeeded in having published in the Jerusalem Post which will be of interest.  The headline created by the newspaper is a poor one, but the rest of the text is just fine. This is a checklist of fascist characteristics in individual people and in institutions. The list is intended to be used as a way to help us evaluate degrees of fascist or totalitarian control in the ideas and actions of selected leaders, groups and institutions.