Canada must rethink its friendship with Israel
This week, the Israeli parliament approved a controversial law that constrains the Supreme Court’s ability to provide judicial oversight of government actions. According to many critics, this is only the first step in a plan by the coalition government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to concentrate power in the executive branch. The Netanyahu government, which includes Jewish supremacists and is the most extreme in the country’s history, has also taken steps, and will likely take additional ones, toward Israel’s further annexation of the West Bank.
I can’t wait till they conflate Israeli Supremacism with White Supremacism.
Worth reading an opposing opinion on the Judicial flap in Israel which to my view resembles the Canadian public’s dismay with our own unsolicited judicial activism. Well some of the Canadian public’s dismay.
The truth about the Israeli protests
This elitist, anti-democratic movement wants to constrain the power of the Israeli parliament.
On Monday night, amid large-scale protests, the Israeli Knesset (parliament) passed the first part of the government’s judicial-reform package.
The ‘reasonableness’ bill, which passed 64-0, is designed to curb the sweeping powers of Israel’s Supreme Court. As Jeremy Sharon has outlined in Times of Israel, using the tool of ‘reasonableness’, the Israeli Supreme Court has been able to strike down the actions of elected ministers or officials as ‘unreasonable’. It can do this even if those actions ‘do not violate any particular law or contradict other administrative rulings’. If it becomes law – incredibly, the Supreme Court could still declare the reasonableness bill to be ‘unreasonable’ – that will no longer be possible.
