Elisheva Goldberg Profile picture
Media & Policy for @NewIsraelFund; Contributing writer for @JewishCurrents
Nov 23, 2021 16 tweets 6 min read
🧵/1 Israel’s Supreme Court is often seen as a bastion of liberal values in an increasingly illiberal country. But, this reputation needs another look.

Without a constitutionally backed system of checks and balances, the Court has been susceptible to rampant delegitimization. /2 Rather than fight and lose, the Court has begun to silence itself.

The result is a once mighty institution, now afraid of its own shadow.

I write about this for @JewishCurrents here: jewishcurrents.org/the-long-reach…
May 13, 2021 10 tweets 3 min read
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[NOTE: This is *one piece* of context for what is happening in Israel-Palestine right now]

1/ Nadine Awad, a talented 16-year-old Palestinian citizen of Israel, was killed alongside her father by a Hamas rocket yesterday morning in the unrecognized village of Dahmash. 2/ This tragedy due in part to the fact that Dahmash has no infrastructure whatsoever, including shelters. I've written about why this is for @TheAtlantic here: theatlantic.com/international/…