#judicial highjacking

[agentfascinateur]

Bravo Australia 👏👏👏 for calling a spade a spade:

Australia reinstates term 'occupied Palestinian Territories' for West Bank

Since 2014, Australian officials had avoided using the words 'occupied' or 'occupation' when referring to the West Bank

More countries should do it too. No more two-tiered system of international law.

[agentfascinateur]

Moving out

The sane ones are leaving the mess...

Portuguese Immigration Service announced that 21,000 Israelis have applied for its citizenship since the beginning of the year, ranking first among other nationalities. Immigration offices have become a destination address for thousands of Israelis, and there has been a 10 per cent increase in the number of new inquiries regarding Portuguese, German and Polish nationalities since the formation of the current government. Media outlets and social media networks have published a lot of material talking about Israelis’ immigration and new passports’ requests. The most common word in Google searches in Israel has become “moving out”. A Facebook group called “Leaving the Country – Together” has been formed recently and announced that they have decided to organise groups to leave Israel in light of the changes witnessed.

Jews’ reverse immigration from Israel is on the rise

As Israeli problems escalate and are expected to have internal and external repercussions, more and more Israelis have been lining up in fro

[agentfascinateur]

The bigoted demagogues Trump & Netanyahu :

For both, regaining or holding on to power means, among other things, subordinating judicial institutions that define and enforce the rule of law. That’s because both have hanging over them grave allegations of high crimes against the state.

Opinion | The Trump-Netanyahu Strategy Is Revealed

Israel’s democratic crisis could become America’s.

[agentfascinateur]

Decoupling...but did we otherwise avert a more global coup? 🤔

This Is the End of the U.S.-Israel ‘Special Relationship’

The ultra-rightwing Netanyahu government can no longer claim special status as the Mideast’s only democracy–and Americans share the blame.

While we've been seeing a shift globally towards right-wing extremism in mainstream politics in the West, largely funded by disrupters intent on upending a better world, is the fact of losing the judicial overhaul battle in one area, while the US struggles conversely with a corrupt right-wing Supreme Court, still not the worst thing that could have been in the works - such as a more global overthrow away from the people's will?