Yesh Atid MK Ofer Shelah: 'Jewish and democratic is an oxymoron'

Nearly thirty years ago, the Knesset passed a law banning from Knesset elections parties that refuse to accept the 'Jewish and democratic nature' of the State of Israel. The law targeted, and was used to ban, Rabbi Meir Kahane HY"D's (May God Avenge his blood) Kach party from the 1984 Knesset elections.

The Central Elections Committee voted 18-10 today to bar Rabbi
MelrKahane’s extreme

The real threat to democracy

In a piece that's behind JPost's paywall, but which I received by email, Evelyn Gordon reports that Israel really does have a dictator and that his name is not Netanyahu or Beinish or Grunis. It's the attorney general, Yehuda Weinstein.

After
years of dismissing leftists’ hyperbolic claims that Israeli democracy
is under threat, I’ve decided they may be right after all. What they’re
wrong

Is Israel a democracy?

For those of you who think that Israel is a democracy or has 'representative government' (and I know that's most of you, and I admit that Israel is the closest thing to a democracy in this region by far), please consider the case of Yesh Atid MK Adi Kol, who had the gall to abstain in a Knesset vote on changing the electoral system in the wee hours of this morning.
After her
controversial