Political Pressure Groups Lobby for a Constitution incorporating “Arab Communal Rights,” “Social Justice.”
On March 30 a coalition of political pressure groups describing themselves as “civil society groups” met with MK Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson, Chairman of the Knesset Constitution and Law Committee, to demand that the Committee adopt a constitution that would move Israel in the direction of a binational, Jewish-Palestinian state, while creating a constitutional “social rights” enforceable by the courts more....
Law and Civil Rights
In a precedent-setting decision, Judge Moussia Arad of Jerusalem District Court ordered the State Prosecution to hand over to IPC all its files regarding decisions to indict (or not indict) people for the offenses of “insulting a civil servant” or “insulting a judge.” The court’s decision covers the years 2001 to 2007 and will enable IPC to evaluate whether the State Prosecution exhibited political bias in deciding whom to indict and whom to let off. more...
COMMENTARY
by Yitzhak Klein, Director, Israel Policy Center
The latest shtick by opponents of Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann’s proposed reforms of the Israeli legal system is to issue dire warnings that reform will lead to corruption in the courts. The syllogism runs thus: Friedmann wants to give a greater say in selecting judges to elected politicians; politicians are corrupt; therefore the politicians will appoint corrupt judges, who will sell indictments, verdicts, sentences and judgments to the highest bidder. more...
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