Protest heads: ‘Everything will ignite’ if opposition MK not picked for judicial panel

Ahead of tomorrow’s key Knesset vote to place two lawmakers on the Judicial Selection Committee, leaders of weekly protests against the government’s judicial overhaul plan warn that “everything will ignite” if one of the selected MKs isn’t from the opposition.

“We are on alert and all available [to spring into action] at a moment’s notice,” they say in a fiery statement. “If opposition representative [Karine Elharrar] isn’t selected as a member of the Judicial Selection Committee, everything will ignite. We suggest that the government not try us.

“But even if she is selected, as long as the threat of dictatorship isn’t shelved, and the fear of a rotten compromise isn’t removed, the protests will continue and become stronger. In front of politicians’ homes, in conferences and in Kaplan [Street in Tel Aviv],” they add.

“We will keep carrying out our duty to save Israeli democracy from those who want to turn it into a dangerous, messianic dictatorship.”