Verfassungsblog (Feb 2023)

Israel: Cry, Beloved Country

  • Joseph H.H. Weiler

Journal volume & issue
no. 2366-7044

Abstract

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Israel, like many other democracies today, is a deeply polarized society. The operating principle of public discourse is typically: “Art thou for us or for our adversaries” (Joshua 5:13). It is thus telling that, in the recent eruption in response to Netanyahu’s new government plan to reform the judicial system, one sees groups whom one would have never expected on the anti-government side of the current protests.

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