Mass protests against the man who was Trumpian before Trump are part of a worldwide struggle, says the Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
  • SulaymanF@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7111·
    1 year ago

    Hardly. Israel has been running an apartheid system for decades now, but only now that Netanyahu is going to influence the courts to negatively affect Israelis and not just Palestinians, suddenly Israelis are up in arms.

    Netanyahu’s plans are bad and will worsen everything, but the system was already undemocratic to begin with. Courts already denied rights to Palestinians and held minors without access to lawyers, detaining some Palestinians for years to decades without trial. The courts upheld demolition of Palestinian families homes without due process and then when Palestinians petitioned for the same punishment for Israeli terrorists the courts declined to intervene.

    Edit: also this judicial change opens Israel up to even more charges of crimes against humanity, as judicial checks and balances are eliminated it means the government is more strictly responsible for human rights abuses.

    • ForgetReddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      What’s happening in Israel is very interesting though- what happens when a unified extremist slight-minority votes at 100% while the majority votes at 70%? Democracy fails when democracy votes for fascism.

      • cyd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Interesting, thanks for sharing. But the angst is pretty easy to understand: Likud and its supporters are glumly realising that they’re not calling the shots anymore. It’s the far-right that’s on the ascendant and setting the agenda. But what are Likud and Netanyahu gonna do? Once they’ve gotten on the tiger, they’re obliged to ride wherever the tiger wants to go.

  • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    1 year ago

    Clearly having the far right ultra-nationalist, racist and militarist nutters governing the country was only fine as long as the only victims were from a different ethnic group as the majority.

  • Aesculapius@kbin.social
    51·
    1 year ago

    Interesting fact: Israel does not have a formal written constitution. Instead, they have a series of Basic Laws which is like rolling out a chapter at a time. Very interesting reading here.