We must act now to stop the U.K. anti-boycott bill,
which threatens to erode local democracy, restrict freedom of
expression, and undermine all campaigns to protect human rights and
the planet.
The Jenin onslaught further damaged Israel's reputation
in the U.S., and J Street knows it. No wonder the liberal Zionist
group had almost nothing to say even as AIPAC and the ADL and Josh
Gottheimer, too, were defending Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hit out at protests against his government's planned judicial overhaul, summoning the attorney-general to a cabinet meeting to discuss police counter-measures.
Israelis have launched mass protests since January over the reforms, which they say would weaken the judiciary and turn the Supreme Court into a pseudo-political body that would bend laws in favour of the government.
On Monday, Netanyahu's far-right coalition government will bring forward a parliamentary reading of the bill that would limit "reasonableness" as a standard of judicial review.
Opponents have said the move could lead to abuses of power.
In televised remarks on Sunday, the prime minister said that, while it was "unthinkable" to suppress the right to protest, such freedoms should not lead to "violations of the law that harm the basic rights of millions of citizens and are taking place on an almost daily basis".
He cited the e...
Summary: After nearly
17 years weve crossed the 37,000 blog posts milestone; we can
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early morning (at around 3AM) marked one week since I last
contacted London about the 
