Identity Politics Underpin the Controversial Judicial "Reforms" that are Gutting Israel

Israel’s ongoing political crisis has everything to do with misdirected anger from long-festering culture and identity wars and less to do with any well-formulated ideas about justice and democracy

Part I. Getting Even

i) The Million Man March in Jerusalem

It was billed as the “Million Man March”.  

Organizers had worked for weeks to attract one million Israelis to demonstrate in Jerusalem in support of the coalition government’s judicial reform legislation.

In the end somewhere between 100,000-200,000 supporters of the reform made their way to Jerusa…