Do you stand with the Israeli protestors?

[Zinneke]

I actually think David is right and there should be some mechanisms to overrule a potential court decision but only through a strong, convincing majority. I do think that the judicilisation of politics may become a serious problem in democracies but not in the way the right-wing thinks it will. I'll just cite an example that left-wingers should take into account : we European member-states signed EU treaty law basically enshrining certain rules that were overt post-1990 neo-liberal ideological ones. And while nobody seems to mind if certain big member states break them, would you really like it if ECJ judges suddenly dictated fiscal policy, or even monetary policy (a german court ruled the ECB's QE actions illegal for example)? Sometimes the judges are there to enforce a straightjacket on political creativity, and the result is most of the political class are lawyers who debate the fine print rather than economists, engineers, sociologists who look for original political economy solutions to complex societal problems.

The spirit of this law however is to basically ram several other laws while they still have a majority and eventually achieve right-wing hegemony within the judiciary branch. And Israel is a segregated society now, that requires a constitution guaranteeing basic rights for its various different segments, stripping them of the right to impose their way of life on other segments.

I also think its a shame these kind of protests aren't made for guaranteeing a settlement with the Arab population of Israel-Palestine...Palestinian flags being torn down at protests for example...surely the Israeli secular classes need to understand that if they want guarantee of protection on their basic rights, then Arabs need their own guarentees of autonomy and identity recognition (the security issue is another debate).