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[Israel] An assault on democracy (bill to outlaw universal jurisdiction, July 2010)

CMAQ via Mic, Tuesday, July 20, 2010 - 16:48
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By Ishai Menuchin, executive director of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel

25 MKs have proposed legislation aimed at outlawing Israeli organizations involved in universal jurisdiction activity - if passed, the bill would endanger Israeli democracy.

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As the political left has shrunk in size and influence, the organizations that promote universal values have become the only clear and systematic opposition to official human rights abuses, whether within Israel proper or in the occupied territories. Thus, HROs have become the new enemies of the Israeli far right. For it, the human-rights agenda is unacceptable and inherently "anti-Israeli," and thus it has a duty to stop it.

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