Posted on 02/23/2023 8:44:16 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
An array of U.S. Jewish leaders are sounding alarms about what they see as a threat to Israel’s democracy posed by its new government, fearing it will erode the independence of its judiciary and legal protections for minority groups.
While some Jewish leaders dismiss such fears are overblown, a solid majority of mainstream Jewish American groups are voicing unprecedented criticism of the Israeli government, raising fears about a growing rift between Israel and the predominately liberal American Jewish population. Some progressive voices have gone even further, saying Israel can never truly be a democracy as long as it rules over millions of Palestinians who do not have the right to vote.
Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu took office as prime minister in December after the country’s fifth election in less than four years. His coalition allies include ultra-Orthodox parties and ultranationalist parties dominated by hardline West Bank settlers.
They see a planned judicial overhaul as threatening the checks and balances on Israel’s government — echoing concerns voiced by tens of thousands of Israeli street protesters in recent weeks.
“Here we are, about to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Jewish democratic state of Israel that we love,” said Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, a liberal denomination representing the largest U.S. Jewish religious population. Yet that anniversary is approaching amid fears for “the weakening of Israel’s democratic foundations,” Jacobs said.
Rabbi Moshe Hauer, executive vice president of the Orthodox Union, an umbrella group for Orthodox Jews in the U.S., said Netanyahu’s government and its political opposition share responsibility for the tensions.
“Is the government’s initial proposal extreme and in need of correction? Probably,” Hauer said. But he said there’s room for compromise.
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yes he was he lived off income from his wife who passed it on from her own father.
Karl Marx, a nominal Christian with Christian wife (Jenny von Westphalen, of Scots nobility) lived off nominal Christian Brit capitalist Friedrich Engels and American Horace Greeley (“Go west young man”).
With millions of unknown persons coming across the border, including terrorists, plus the tens of thousands unvetted Afghans allowed in by Biden, that may change, unfortunately.
Yes time will tell on that one. I also wonder if honor killings will become more prevalent. As those are the values we are importing.
Two of the big three secularly-oriented rabbinical schools have long since been infiltrated and taken over by the name Marxist cadre as has taken over many of the Christian schools of theology. They did it with the same lies - claiming their agenda is “the Jewish way,” or “the Christian way.” Complete B.S. The perceived desire to “fit in” to the trends of the times exacerbated the damage - and so it continues. Big time brain washing with huge falsehoods.
But they are real Democrats of today’s ilk. Sad to report that by Jewish law, a large portion are Jewish according to Jewish law.
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A firebrand Israeli minister claimed there’s “no such thing” as a Palestinian people as Israel’s new coalition government, its most hard-line ever, plowed ahead on Monday with a part of its plan to overhaul the judiciary.
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