Israel’s parliament has voted into law a controversial curb on some supreme court powers submitted by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, the Knesset speaker has said.
The bill passed by a vote of 64-0, the speaker added, after opposition lawmakers abandoned the Knesset plenum in protest.
I know this is like talking about an ex, but I find it absolutely bizarre that the news about Israeli judicial overhaul is not being covered at all on Reddit in r/worldnews. This is a bfd, and not a single post above the fold over there.
I’ve barely seen talk of this anywhere, really.
I’m pretty sure the mods there actively censor any negative news about Israel and it’s government, even when it’s internal matters like this that is pinning Israelis against Israelis and not directly part of any larger conflict.
Whelp! There goes democracy!
Israel really needs a written Constitution. The problem is the ultra-Orthodox are not interested. To them, the Torah is the Consitution.
It’s far more than just looking to one set of scripture when it comes to the charedi movement in Israel. They’re reading in thousands of years of Rabbinic Judaism, most importantly the idea that the sacrificial cult of Ancient Israelite Religion (A.K.A. Torah) is the way God wants people to engage in worship. It’s using thousands of years of anti-Semitism as a cudgel to state “we can’t be oppressors because we were oppressed.”
My hot take is that one reason for a strong connection between the U.S. and Israel is that Israel is a settler-colonial, white supremacist, patriarchal, theocratic apartheid ethnostate. There’s a non-insignificant portion of the U.S. populace who wish the U.S. had the same kind of government.
Huh, I guess living in a dictatorial ethnostate constantly committing genocide against its neighbor has its drawbacks sometimes.
דמוקרטיה no more :(
