Haggai Matar & Gideon Levy: Israel's Fight over Judicial Changes Ignores Occupation & Apartheid

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Israel’s justice minister gives away the real aim of the judicial coup’s first law

In a Knesset speech, Yariv Levin listed five gov't decisions that were blocked for being ‘unreasonable.’ All were about Palestinians and the occupation.

However, Levin’s own speech ahead of the vote in the Knesset plenum on Monday told a rather different story — one that centers around entrenching Israel’s control over the Palestinians and eliminating resistance to it.

Halfway through his speech explaining the reasoning behind the bill, Levin presented his fellow lawmakers with five examples in which the High Court invoked the reasonableness standard to intervene in government decisions, asking: “Do you really want these judges to have the power to determine what is reasonable and what is the right thing to do, rather than [those entrusted by] the public?” Yet rather than expanding the concept of democracy, every one of the examples he gave concerned Palestinians or Israeli anti-occupation activists, thus starkly revealing the real driving force behind the government’s agenda.

Source : https://www.972mag.com/judicial-coup-reasonableness-yariv-levin/