Defend Israeli democracy (and Jewish privilege)
JVL Introduction
Neve Gordon examines the goals of the huge protests which fill Tel Aviv’s streets every weekend, opposing judicial overhaul plans the demonstrators see as dangerous to democracy.
He examines how the judicial system handled calls for the Israeli government and military to fulfil their obligations under international humanitarian law. How did this bastion of democracy address the humanitarian needs of Gaza’s civilian population amid catastrophic conditions?.
Gordon concludes that for most of the protesters, the danger that concerns them is not the threat Netanyahu’s regime poses to democracy, but the fear that it endangers Jewish privilege.
He writes: “The regime, in other words, can continue to eliminate Palestinians unhindered as long as the rights of Israel’s Jewish citizenry are secured.”
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This article was originally published by Al Jazeera on Thu 10 Apr 2025. Read the original here.
Why I don’t cheer for Israel’s ‘pro-democracy’ movement
The antigovernment protests in Israel are not about achieving true democracy, but maintaining Jewish privilege.
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Every Israeli government of whatever party has been Zionist and expansionist. Even the non-Zionist opposition, with the exception of some native Palestinian Jews, are totally hypocritical and eagerly receive the benefits of occupation while wringing their hands
If I have interpreted it correctly, although the State of Israel is secular, indeed it is notably self-interested, it affects to be fundamentally religiously based.
More genuine theocracies, such as Afghanistan and Iran, do not provide good government either; they repress the female halves of the populations.
As this article alludes to, the State of Israel is actually operating closest to the old colonialist and racist South Africa. That too justified evil oppression on the basis of old scripture one-sidedly interpreted in an unholy manner.