(JNS) Jonathan S. Tobin - Opponents of the Israeli government's judicial reform are seeking to emulate the anti-Trump resistance. The claims that the proposed judicial reforms will shred democracy are risible. All the government wants is to move Israel's judiciary into line with those of other democracies, in which the courts may be powerful but do not operate as unchallenged rulers of the country - not only with the unlimited power that they arrogated to themselves, but with the ability to perpetuate it by naming their successors. This is something that Americans wouldn't tolerate in their courts, yet Israeli critics have convinced their foreign allies that preserving such a system is essential to safeguarding democracy. This is not so much an example of the lawful exercise of the right of the minority to dissent as it is an effort for elites, with the help of foreign allies, to overturn the results of an election. Far from preserving Israel as a democratic state, they are asking Americans to help squelch Israeli democracy.
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