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Legal bullying in the service of the prime minister
The Knesset is fast-tracking legislation to hobble and hide corruption investigations against Netanyahu. The bill would further erode Israeli democracy, training citizens to accept that they do not have the right to know the facts about their leaders. The Knesset raced toward adopting a law this week intended to constrain Israeli police from making recommendations about…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
December 1, 2017
Right-wing TV station ordered to include Reform, Conservative Judaism
A public television channel with a right-wing Zionist slant asks for permission to start a nightly newscast. Israel’s Communications Ministry says sure, but only if they start including ‘every stream of Judaism.’ By Raanan Shemesh Forshner Israel’s Council for Cable TV and Satellite Broadcasting (CCSB), part of the Communications Ministry, accepted last week a request…
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+972 Magazine
December 27, 2016
Israelis don’t get to hold a referendum on Palestine
A recent poll found that if there were a Brexit-style referendum over whether to maintain Israeli control over the West Bank, most Israelis would choose ‘remain.’ But is that up to Israelis to decide? If there were a referendum in Israel about whether to “leave” the West Bank — while holding onto most of the settlements…
By
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
July 6, 2016
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Gag orders in Israel have tripled over last 15 years
As the Military Censor has become more liberal, authorities have turned to gag orders as a convenient alternative for controling the dissemination of information. Over the past 15 years, the number of gag orders issued in Israel has more than tripled. But that is only a rough estimate because no state body actually monitors them.…
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Haggai Matar
May 9, 2016
Views on torture split along ethnic lines, Israeli poll finds
Attitudes toward torture in Israel differ significantly among Jews and Arabs. Poll also finds conciliatory views about the legitimacy of the ‘other’ and their claims to the land. More than 55 percent of Jewish Israelis think it is permissible to use “physical methods” of interrogation, i.e. torture, against terrorism suspects even if there is no “ticking…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
January 5, 2016
Poll: Majority of Jewish Israelis support executing terror suspects on the spot
A recent poll finds that Israelis Jews believe that Palestinians suspected of carrying out terrorist attacks should be killed on the spot, and that their family’s home should be demolished. Over half of Jewish Israelis (53 percent) believe that a Palestinian suspected of carrying out a terrorist attack “should be killed on the spot, even…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
November 8, 2015
Poll: Israelis don’t believe either candidate will make peace
Six days before Israelis head to the polls, Prime Minister Netanyahu and his challengers, Herzog-Livni, are closer than ever. According to a new survey, most Israelis support a continued peace process, but don’t think it will succeed — regardless of who is at the helm. The past two-and-a-half months of campaigning leading up to next…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
March 11, 2015
Israeli society mounts resistance to assault on democracy (updated)
This post has been updated, 21 July, 2011 When we look back on this period in Israeli history, I don’t want to wonder: “why didn’t Israelis fight for their democracy? Why did they stand by and let themselves be taken over by sham leaders representing repressions that belonged to the dark days of the last…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
July 20, 2011
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