In an interview with Makor Rishon, Prof. Yuval Elbashan says the current Supreme Court justices lack respect for constitutional doctrine, and argues that the court's reasonableness ruling effectively ended Israeli democracy. He also accuses legal academia of operating as an Orwellian thought police, targeting those who dissent from the left-wing 'Forum for Democracy'.
Prof. Yuval Elbashan, a prominent legal scholar, gave an interview to Makor Rishon in which he leveled sharp criticism against the Supreme Court of Israel and the legal academy. Elbashan argued that the current generation of Supreme Court justices, unlike the generation of Aharon Barak, do not respect constitutional doctrine and in some cases do not master it. He singled out Justice Yitzhak Amit's opinion in the reasonableness ruling, which he said discarded the established path and effectively declared that the Court can override any Basic Law by invoking amorphous 'fundamental principles'. According to Elbashan, from that moment Israel ceased to be a democracy. He also criticized the 'Forum of Lecturers for Democracy', accusing it of operating as an Orwellian thought police that silences dissenters through delegitimization and even violent action. The interview is scheduled to be published in Makor Rishon this weekend.
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