Webinar: The crisis of Israel’s judicial tyranny and the resistance to it being reformed

For the last several months, Israel has been in an unprecedented internal upheaval – perhaps the greatest since its formation in 1948. The trigger for this upheaval was the government’s attempt to check the power of its judiciary branch, which over the last 30 years has asserted such control that it threatens the very principle of parliamentary sovereignty as the voice of the people.

The government’s reform package was designed to address at least in part some of the most egregious excesses of the judiciary’s distorted power, but the initiative was met by an overwhelming tidal wave of organized resistance with both domestic and foreign dimensions.

Consequently on Monday, March 27, after 2 months of unrest, the government was forced to pause the reform process and regroup. Many voices on the left, however, have doubled down on demands and insist the current Israeli government must be brought down – despite it having just been elected.