Published: 24 July 2016
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Law allows 90 MKs to oust colleagues who ‘support armed struggle or incite racial hatred.’ MK Nachman Shai (Zionist Union/Labor): ‘History will not forgive those who had a hand in this.’
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And see:
Israel’s right-wing laws: a threat to democracy or much ado about symbolism? – Andrew Tobin – The Times of Israel 20.07.16
A slew of right-wing legislation has been proposed since the hawkish 20th Knesset was sworn in - a ‘populist wave of nationalist legislation’ unprecedented in Israeli history, even under right-wing prime ministers such as Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir - but few have passed into law and many have been softened.
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Suspension of Israel’s democracy? February 20, 2016
Tyranny of the majority February 13, 2016
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