Mass protests are rocking Israel, and the country’s largest labor union announced a major strike Monday in opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s months-long attempt to push through widely-derided judicial reforms that opponents say will pull the country toward an autocracy.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration proposed a series of widely contested government reforms.
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The planned overhaul would significantly weaken the country’s judiciary and make it harder to remove Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, from power.
Just what Trump and the GOP would do in a second Trump administration. Unless, of course, the already rigged Supreme Court took up every case appealed to them by MAGA world, making it unnecessary.
Netanyahu fired his defense minister who opposed the motion, triggering renewed protests across the country.
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Histadrut — which at 800,000 members represents the majority of Israel’s trade unionists — declared a “historic” general strike to “stop this judicial revolution, this craziness,” Bar-David said.
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Flights out of Israel’s Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv have been suspended, as airport workers go on strike, and laborers at Haifa and Ashdod ports — the two largest ports in Israel — have also stopped working. McDonald’s Israel says it has closed branches as part of the strike action.
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“600,000 demonstrating is an extraordinary figure. It means approx 6.5% of Israel’s population is out protesting tonight, many having literally woken up from their beds when they heard Bibi fired Gallant,” Monica Marks, a Middle East politics professor at NYU Abu Dhabi, wrote on Twitter.
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A deeply divided Israel has held five snap elections since April 2019.
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“We’ve never been closer to falling apart,” Israel’s former Prime Minister Yair Lapid told lawmakers on Monday.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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