Jewish democracy

Israel’s new law anti-democratic

Image: Sheldon Adelson, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo by Tess Scheflan   

Multi-billionaire and casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson was forthright when he said recently ‘(God) didn’t talk about Israel remaining as a democratic state … Israel isn’t going to be a democratic state … so what?’

 
 

The plucky professor and the last bigoted democracy

The plucky professor and the last bigoted democracy
In a just world, the Israeli president would be arraigned at the ICC (Courtesy Palestine Chronicle)
 
By JAMAL KANJ
ISRAELI president Shimon Peres is hosting in Jerusalem this week a presidential conference called “Facing Tomorrow”. Its theme is the “human factor and its role in shaping our tomorrow”.