The Boston Globe · 9 March 2023

CP-2023-020

In Israel, the rule of law teeters on the brink

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“Since its founding, Israel has faced a host of external threats to its very existence. Today, however, the nation is being rent from within… Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets to protest what have been put forth as alleged judicial reforms by the ruling right-wing coalition… Smotrich, now with a bigger platform from which to rail, last week said of a Palestinian village in the West Bank, the scene of a previous attack by Israeli settlers, ‘The village of Huwara needs to be wiped out. I think the State of Israel should do it.’… This week more than 100 American Jewish leaders signed a statement opposing Smotrich’s planned visit to the United States… ‘We agree with Israeli opposition leader and former prime minister Yair Lapid that Smotrich’s comments constitute incitement to a war crime,’ the group said in a statement.”

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An American newspaper editorial, quoting a hundred American Jewish leaders quoting an Israeli opposition leader on incitement to a war crime.

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"In Israel, the rule of law teeters on the brink," The Boston Globe, 9 March 2023. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2023-020. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2023-020

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