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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U.S. Jews are becoming alarmed because Israeli Jews refuse to be suicidal?
Most US jews would have been giving their gold to to Arron for the golden calf and likely been the crowd to fall into the earth when Moses came dawn from the mountain.
Before the war in Europe, Jews were divided into two groups: The Zionists and the Socialist Bund Jews.
The Socialist Bund Jews were all about a global Communist revolution, they opposed Zionism and the idea of all Jews living in one State, because it wouldn’t help their goal of spreading Communism around the Globe.
how come it is never the other way?
What, I wonder, does the AP mean by the word “democracy” when the AP uses it.
This right here. If your rabbi is/can be a fat bull dyke, it isn’t Judaism. Reform Judaism is a joke.
What a ridiculously backwards headline.
Meanwhile...U.S. Jews are undergoing their own “rightward shift” as well, which will only intensify as Orthodox Jews contrinue to grow their numbers. For example, “Libs of Tik Tok” is an Orthodox (Chabad) Jewish woman.
Karl Marx was a lazy insipid leach who had issues with his father. Embracing Marxism and leftist philosophy is contrary to freedom and self determinism.
**What, I wonder, does the AP mean by the word “democracy” when the AP uses it.**
MSM: Dictionary? We don’t need no stinking dictionary! Red is gray and yellow white, but we decide which right, and which is an illusion.
This is Huge and Series!
Wait, no it’s not. This is nothing.
Oops, should be “This is ‘Hugh’.
US Jews are not real Jews, they are JINOS
Very interesting.
Boo hoo
Ping.
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