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Thursday, March 30th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Michael Starr Jerusalem Post, Feb. 3, 2023 “What we are seeing now is part of the backlash to that because a lot of the people now would say the inland Supreme Court became too active,” explained Gross. “And [they would say] ‘we want to kind of bring the power back to the people rather than […]

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Thursday, March 30th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Dan McClaughlin National Review, Mar. 28, 2023 “The Biden administration, which never misses an opportunity to attack judicial review by independent courts in the United States or treat foreign policy as a proxy war against domestic enemies, has taken sides against the judicial overhaul.” Be thankful that America has a written Constitution. The Founding Fathers were […]

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Wednesday, March 29th 2023 / Wednesday, March 29th 2023

                 MEDIA-OCRITY  Netanyahu Cannot Be Trusted: Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times,  Mar.28, 2023 “Thank goodness that Israel’s civil society has forced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pause, for now, his attempt to impose his control over Israel’s independent judiciary and gain a free hand to rule as he wishes. […]

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Tuesday, March 28th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

WARNING BELLS SOUNDED What the War Against Judicial Reform is Really About:  Caroline Glick, Mar. 24, 2023 — The left’s total war against the Netanyahu government’s judicial reform plan seems to know no bounds, and appears impenetrable to information or substantive discussion.   JNS Webinar: Israel’s Judicial Reform Crisis Explained:  Alex Traiman, JNS, Mar. 27, […]

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Tuesday, March 28th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  Jonathan Tobin JNS, Mar. 27, 2023   “Will that happen every time the right wins an election from now on? Probably. That means not only will the juristocracy defend its power, but its supporters are permanently committed to thwarting the will of voters who may continue to outnumber them in the future.”   After […]

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Tuesday, March 28th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Netael Bandel Israel Hayom, Mar. 27, 2023 “The Supreme Court ruled this week that the attorney general is not in a conflict of interest by being involved with the attorney general’s law in the reform because “the clashing interests inherently constitute the role of the attorney general, who is responsible for giving legal advice.” This is […]

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Tuesday, March 28th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Ruthie Blum JNS, Mar. 26, 2023 “He was simply too intimidated by the unprecedented situation to know how to handle it. Such gutlessness hardly inspires confidence about his ability to deal with Tehran and its tentacles in Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian Authority.”   To borrow the favorite epithet of the demonstrators in the streets of […]

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Tuesday, March 28th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Haviv Rettig Gur Times of Israel, Mar. 27, 2023 “To the half of the country that hadn’t voted for the coalition, the extreme version was the goal, not a tactic on the way to a more moderate version. One doesn’t negotiate the dismantling of democracy on the breakneck schedule of the dismantlers.”   The Israeli […]

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Tuesday, March 28th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Melanie Phillips The JC, Mar. 23, 2023   “This mindset now unites most of the progressive classes in Israel, Britain and America. For them, ordinary people who don’t share their views are the “deplorables”. By contrast the judges — educated, liberal, cosmopolitan — are people like themselves.” Many appear to believe that the Israelis demonstrating […]

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Monday, March 27th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

IN THE BEGINNING … The Long March Back:  Nate Hochman, National Review, Feb. 16, 2023 — To understand today’s culture wars, we have to go back to the beginning: a jail cell in Fascist Italy. For the last decade of his life, Antonio Gramsci was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini’s regime for his role in founding the Italian Communist […]

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Monday, March 27th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Tal Fortgang National Review, Mar. 22, 2023 “When did the Jewish tradition begin to embrace today’s notion of the “nonbinary,” and why is it news to the most devout Jews?” Not content to enlist their twisted understandings of  to fight state laws protecting unborn children, progressive activists now have taken to claiming that Judaism’s “most sacred […]

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Monday, March 27th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Barbara Kay The Epoch Times, Feb. 20, 2023 “The portrait Reed paints reveals systemic willingness to sacrifice children’s health on the altar of gender mysticism.” Three utopian projects obsess the left: environmentalism, racism, and androgyny. Climate affects us all, racism affects millions of us, but genuine gender dysphoria is extremely rare. And yet the obsession […]