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June 19, 2019

Israel’s Judicial Tyranny and Its Anti-Democratic Defenders

The Supreme Court acts independently of both law and the constitution.

Recent statements by Israel’s minister of justice Amir Ohana have brought back to public attention the controversy between those who wish to defend the unchecked power of the country’s overweening Supreme Court—paradoxically condemning any complaint about the power of this unelected oligarchic body as “undemocratic”—and those who wish to impose limits on its authority. Moshe Koppel comments:

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June 19, 2019

  1. Don’t Blame the U.S. for Iranian Bellicosity

    “Maximum restraint” amounts to giving in to blackmail.

  2. Israel’s Judicial Tyranny and Its Anti-Democratic Defenders

    The Supreme Court acts independently of both law and the constitution.

  3. The British Christian Volunteer Who Fought for Israel’s Independence

    Tom Derek Bowden, in memoriam.

  4. German Neofascists Have Longstanding Ties to Palestinian Terrorists—and to BDS

    Meet Karl-Heinz Hoffman and his “military sports group.”

  5. In Yiddish, “Fiddler on the Roof” Sheds Its Mushy Universalism

    This Tevye is no “sweetie-pie Jew.”