The real aim of Israel’s judicial coup

JVL Introduction

A week ago the Israeli government succeeded in passing a key bill in its project of neutering the Supreme Count – abolishing what is known as the “reasonableness standard” which enables the Court to use its discretion to block government decisions and appointments that it deems “unreasonable”.

The Court has yet to rule on whether this law is reasonable…

Defended as a democratic move to take power away from unelected judges, it is anything but.

Ben Reiff spells out its underlying agenda as stated openly by the Justice Minister who – despite the Court’s pathetic weakness on the issue – paints it as a defender of the Palestinians, of “terrorists”.

Anything that stands in the way of the far right’s unbridled authoritarian ethno-nationalism has to be eliminated. It wants a Greater Israel in which the Palestinians finally and incontrovertibly, know their place.

This article was originally published by +972 Magazine on Tue 25 Jul 2023. Read the original here.