When Israel Has a ‘Demo but No Democracy’

University of Washington Political scientist Jamie Mayerfield recently posed a question: “What do the academic critics of judicial review think about the crisis in Israel? Do they support Netanyahu's efforts to roll back judicial review? If not, why not? Middle East specialist Lawrence Davidson  recently told me that, “I would think that most academics in the West would clearly see that Netanyahu’s coalition is a danger to the (strictly ethnic) democracy in place in Israel. “Most of them,” Davidson stated, “would then support the protest movement. However, most of these academics would take this position based on a rather naive understanding of Israel.” More

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