With protests over Netanyahu's judicial reform entering their 6 months, we need to ask ourselves what are the demonstrations really about? Will or can a political solution solve this issue? Is there a deeper issue of whether Israel should be a Jewish state or a state for the Jews?
In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin spoke with Tablet Magazine’s Liel Leibovitz who argues that the battle over Israeli judicial reform is an “existential crisis” and not just a political dispute about Netanyahu or the Supreme Court. It is about what kind of country Israel would be: a Jewish state or a “normal” country that is like any other.
They also discuss a recent article penned by Leibovitz in which he described the rise of woke ideology about race and especially sex and gender as a new form of “paganism.”
They discuss
- the misconception that supporters of judicial reform want a religious theocracy in Israel.
- the existential crisis and divide facing Israel
- the similarities between paganism and the new progressive ideology
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