Rumors of the Death of Israeli Democracy Are Greatly Exaggerated
They're the product of media events, not any actual policies.
April 5, 2016
Rumors of the Death of Israeli Democracy Are Greatly Exaggerated
They're the product of media events, not any actual policies.
It’s by now a familiar story: a right-wing Knesset member proposes a bill taking away the de-facto status of Arabic as an official language or requiring greater transparency from non-governmental organizations; left-wing parliamentarians denounce such moves as undermining Israeli democracy; the New Israel Fund declares that only the left can retard Israel’s otherwise inevitable slide into authoritarianism. Yet, notes Haviv Rettig Gur, the demonized bills, if they are brought to a vote at all, have a tendency to be defeated, usually by wide margins—and several times Benjamin Netanyahu has been the one to persuade the bill’s sponsors to withdraw their proposals. Gur explains:
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