Why I don’t cheer for Israel’s ‘pro-democracy’ movement


One of many huge Israeli protests against Netanyahu’s planned judicial reforms.

Neve Gordon examines the goals of the huge protests which fill Tel Aviv’s streets every weekend, opposing judicial overhaul plans the demonstrators see as dangerous to democracy.

He examines how the judicial system handled calls for the Israeli government and military to fulfil their obligations under international humanitarian law. How did this bastion of democracy address the humanitarian needs of Gaza’s civilian population amid catastrophic conditions?.

Gordon concludes that for most of the protesters, the danger that concerns them is not the threat Netanyahu’s regime poses to democracy, but the fear that it endangers Jewish privilege.

He writes: “The regime, in other words, can continue to eliminate Palestinians unhindered as long as the rights of Israel’s Jewish citizenry are secured.”

This article was originally published by Al Jazeera on Thu 10 Apr 2025

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