The facts are clear. This judicial reform is about strengthening Israeli democracy after former Chief Justice Barak’s judicial activist coup 30 years ago. After decades of a judicial dictatorship, Israel’s government is finally working to return checks and balances between the three branches of government to strengthen Israel’s democracy, not weaken it,.
Yet, more “pro-Israel” voices are falsely claiming that the judicial reform will ‘destroy Israeli democracy and endanger Israel.’
Famous Israeli actress, and active advocate for Israel in the media and around the world, Noa Tishby is one of the latest to use her name to create panic and division: the judicial reform is “not a reform, but a coup”. Tishby said that the laws create a “danger to the national security of the State of Israel.”
Miriam Adelson, Noa Tishby criticize Israeli gov’t amid judicial reforms
The statements from Adelson and Tishby join a chorus of figures who have in the past been notable for slapping down Jewish Diaspora criticism.
The actor Noa Tishby has gone to bat for Israel on US college campuses as an official emissary of her home country. The philanthropist Miriam Adelson has underwritten multiple organizations dedicated to building pro-Israel sentiment in the United States.
And now both prominent advocates for Israel have publicly joined what is turning out to be a resounding chorus of criticism of Israel’s current government and its efforts to sap the country’s judiciary of its independence and power.
Shock among Israel supporters
“I will say it in the sharpest and clearest way: Diaspora Jewry and Israel’s supporters in the world are shocked. They are shocked,” Tishby said in a column published in Hebrew on Ynet Saturday. “With great pain they look and see how the country they fiercely defended — in Congress, in the media, on the networks or to foreign governments — is changing its face.”
Let me make this as clear as day. The judicial reform is not a coup, it is a clearly articulated legal process for all to see, understand and follow as passed into law. It is trying to undue the undemocratic coup that former Chief Justice Aharon Barak did 30 years ago, turning basic laws into a quasi-constitution that then allowed him to implement a judicial activism that today allows the legal system to basically run the country without any checks and balances!
How so?
Here are some high level examples:
1. Politicians make an appointment the legal system disagrees with? The appointment is canceled.
2. Politicians fire someone? The legal system freezes the termination.
3. A right-wing elected government wants to pass laws that the activist-leftist judicial system disagrees with? The legal system kills the bill before during the legislative process or has the Supreme Court annul the law.
4. A left-wing elected government makes an international decision without Knesset approval even though according to law it requires Knesset approval? The legal establishment approved the deal without problems.
5. Terror-supporters forbidden from serving in Israel’s parliament according to Israeli law? The Supreme Court allows those terror-supporters to serve in Israel’s parliament.
Those are just a few of the many examples.
Please, understand. The judicial reform is about implementing checks and balances between the three branches of government in order to strengthen Israeli democracy and return the legal system to how it used to be before Barack’s anti-democratic judicial coup in the 1990s.
All this talk about the judicial reform destroying Israeli democracy is lies and misinformation by a leftist leadership going crazy that they lost the elections and they are about to lose the one base of power that allows them to run the country even when they lose elections. It is these leftist leaders who are destroying democracy and acting in a very undemocratic fashion.
The time to undue the judicial coup from the 90s has come. Do not let the lies and misinformation scare you.
The judicial reform is good and necessary to strengthen Israel’s democracy and end the undemocratic power grab of the political left via the justice system.
The AG in Israel is the cat’s paw of the supreme court. If they can get by with her interference in the management of state affairs, they need not interfere themselves. Since the AG is supposed to be the advisor of the government and more especially of the prime minister, she should be providing advice that need not be accepted. Currently, the AG is demanding obedience rather than advising.
https://www.israpundit.org/tishby-and-adelson-publicize-false-claims-about-israels-judicial-refo9rm/comment-page-1/#comments
The Knesset must quickly pass legislation stripping the Attorney General of her powers over the government and making it so Netanyahu can fire her and appoint any successors at will, perhaps with advice and consent of the Knesset as in the U.S. where the Senate performs that function and it is televised live.
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/the-knesset/legal-counsel-forbids-govt-videos-explaining-judicial-reform-protest-movement-spent-30-million/2023/03/15/
The very next law they pass must reduce the AG’s offfice to legal counsel appointed by, fired by, serving at the pleasure of the P.M. like in the U.S.
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