Conservative pundit Ben Shapiro defended the Netanyahu government’s plans to reform the Israeli judicial system, and excoriated media coverage of the proposed reforms.
Arutz Sheva reports that in a segment on The Daily Wire, Shapiro called the Israeli judiciary a “dictatorship,” and argued in favor of the reforms proposed by Justice Minister Yariv Levin (Likud). “Benjamin Netanyahu has come under fire from the Left for pursuing a plan to democratize the Supreme Court of Israel,” Shapiro said.
“The media are so hypocritical about this stuff…particularly in the United States. The media in the United States keeps saying that Benjamin Netanyahu is some sort of fascist, that the newly-elected Knesset majority in Israel is some sort of fascist organization for seeking to…change the procedures for Supreme Court’s nominees… so that they are nominated by the Knesset or nominated by the Prime Minister and then confirmed by the Knesset, which sounds very much like the American system.”
“Also, they want to make sure that because Israel has no constitution, the Supreme Court can’t make up some constitution and declare itself dictator. And somehow, this makes Israel more fascist. It is ridiculous.”
“You have to understand exactly how the Israeli judiciary works. It is essentially a self-selected dictatorship. The way that Israel selects its judiciary is absurd.”
“There’s no constitution in Israel,” Shapiro explained. “In the United States, the Supreme Court says ‘We are speaking in the name of the Constitution, we are striking down an unconstitutional piece of legislation.’ Israel’s Supreme Court says the same thing, but there is no constitution in Israel, so they’re basically just saying, ‘Whatever we don’t like, we can strike down.’”
{Matzav.com Israel}
as always ben is right
It goes further than “Whatever we don’t like, we strike down.”
Because it is ‘essentially a self-selected dictatorship”, the leftist clique appoints only leftist judges from its own group, so the laws that get struck down are whatever issues don’t appeal to the leftist agenda. It is a dictatorship because if the democratically elected members of the Knesset pass a law that the judiciary doesn’t like, they strike it down.
There is no system of checks and balances and that’s what the new reform is trying to create in order to have true democracy. The leftist protesters are in a panic and taking to the streets because their dictatorship is now being threatened for the first time since Israel’s war of independence.
the supreme court judges are ayatollas, just like in iran.
Why does Matzav censor those who posts against Israel’s courts and here they are posting an entire article of these self-appointed dictators.
I’m no Ben-Shapiro fan with his theories of fake news propaganda media, but here, for a change, he’s saying something rational, giving his opinion on factual stuff.