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It Is Up To Us To Prevent It

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Shalom to all,

The Knesset’s winter session opened this week amid a disturbing torrent of legislative proposals that continue to advance the regime revolution, never mind the horrific price we have been paying for it over the past year. It’s hard not to watch in horror as those same MKs and government ministers continue to lie, incite, and deceive in their effort to turn Israel into a small, dark, and religious version of Hungary or Russia. Even more horrifying is to hear these individuals speak in the name of “love of Israel.”

People who love Israel do not rob it blind. People who love Israel do not steal its soul. People who love Israel do not watch Israelis being massacred and then declare that survivors will be “rehabilitated last.”

This is a government of plunder, bribery, and bloodshed. It’s a government that sends Israelis to forfeit their lives with 200 days of reserve duty, while exempting entire sectors from that duty and even compensating them financially. This government carries on as if October 7 had never happened because, as far as it is concerned, nothing out of the ordinary occurred then, perhaps just an opportunity. After all, it wasn’t their kids who were taken hostage, or their wives who were raped, or their children who were drafted into the army and sent to risk their lives. Never before has Israel had a government so disconnected from the people at a time of such severe crisis!

The reason this government is now flirting with dictatorship is that they are afraid. They are afraid of the truth, of democracy, and of public accountability. They propose laws that are dangerous and authoritarian, which we at Zulat are fighting relentlessly. We need you with us in this battle. And, we can win! It will take creativity, initiative, and patience, but we have plenty of all three.

This is a government whose members stayed away from funerals, too afraid to look in the eye the bereavement for which they bear responsibility. It is a government that turned the parents of hostages into the people’s enemy and lashed at them its mouthpieces and venomous propaganda machine. It is a government that sent the Israeli army into Gaza without a strategy, choosing blind vengeance and wanton destruction over the release of hostages. It is a government that brought us to the International Court of Justice in The Hague and is likely to drag us even lower.

This is a government that can exist only through lies and deceit, that sees the truth and democracy as a danger. That’s why we’re seeing a flood of legislative proposals aimed at seizing control of the free press, annexing Hebron and Kiryat Arba to the Negev, controlling television ratings, and expelling Arab MKs from the Knesset.

If even October 7 did not rattle it, this government will never get it. Israel cannot survive as a dictatorship that will weaken it, hollow it out from within, and lead to our collapse. This is the danger that lies ahead of us, and it is up to us to prevent it.

Wishing for the release of the hostages,

Zehava Galon

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Dr. Maha Sabbah Karkabi

 

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Tel Aviv University (2015), a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London (2015-2016), a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Sociology at Tel Aviv University (2016-2017), and a postdoctoral fellowship Ph.D. at the Humphrey Institute for Social Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (2018-2020).
Dr. Maha Karbahi’s areas of interest focus on the connection between social change, family behavior, and gender inequality in societies in the process of change and specifically in Palestinian Arab society in Israel. Her research draws attention to the study of family life and employment, using a combined “ethnic lens” and “gender lens” and paying attention to the perspective of Palestinian Arab women, a group characterized by intersections between multiple marginal locations, which over the years has remained hidden from the research eye. Dr. Karkabi-Sabah’s research is published in professional journals and chapters in scientific books that are considered pioneers in family research, work, and gender equality.

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Prof. Frances Raday

Professor Emeritus in the Lieberman Chair in Labor Law, in the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University and serves as a full professor in the College of Management’s academic track, where she also serves as chair of the graduate program and as honorary president of the Concord Center for International Law Absorption. Radai was a member of a working group of the UN Human Rights Council on discrimination against women. In addition, she is a prominent and feminist human rights activist.

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Dr. Rawia Aburabia 

Faculty member of Sapir Academic College’s School of Law, received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research deals with the interface between law, gender, minorities, and human rights. Has published in leading journals on the subject of the matrimonial laws pertaining to Muslim women in Israel. Her book Under the Law, Outside Justice: Polygamy, Gendered Citizenship, and Colonialism in Israeli Law is expected to be published as part of the Gender Series of Kibbutz Meuhad Publishing House.

Dr. Aburabia has extensive experience in international human rights and public law. She has worked as a jurist for the Association for Civil Right and has been invited as a specialist to address such international forums as the United Nations and the European Parliament on the subject of indigenous communities and minority rights. She has interned with Human Rights Watch in Washington DC, and has been a member of the executive board of Amnesty International. In 2018, she was selected by the magazine Globes as one of the 40 most promising young persons in Israel under the age of 40.

 

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Ron Kessler

With over two decades of experience in the field of digital content, Ron has participated in numerous political and social campaigns. He helped run the digital activity of senior public officials, and worked in various NGOs. Ron is a fundamentally optimistic man, who believes that Israel can be changed and so can people. Lives in Tel Aviv.