OPINION | What the parties that comprise this government all share is the determination to create and shape new laws that serve their narrow interests, even if they violate the rule of law, trample certain rights, and shatter liberal democratic norms.
to the point that all checks and balances on those in power are removed.
For the religious, nationalist, racist, far-right parties—Jewish Power and Religious Zionism, both headed by settlers who are now senior ministers in government—it’s about extending Israeli sovereignty over all occupied territory and making public institutions more religious. There are a plethora of signs at the protests with all kinds of messaging, but on a whole, the protesters—who are almost exclusively Jewish—have galvanized around one main slogan: democracy.
The occupation is inseparable from Israel. The same government that operates Israel’s liberal democratic mechanisms presides over millions of stateless Palestinians, who are effectively barred from protesting their condition. The same Supreme Court thata law legalizing Jewish settlement on private Palestinian land has given the green light to Israel’s continued transfer of citizens to occupied territory and to the siege on Gaza.
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