Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich slams anti-judicial overhaul protests as “privileged,” shortly after the Knesset’s Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee advanced a bill to curtail judicial scrutiny over the “reasonableness” of elected officials’ decisions.
Smotrich tells the committee that the protest movement “isn’t a fight for democracy,” but rather that “the privileged group is choosing to protect their own.”
Yesterday, thousands of anti-overhaul protesters shut down traffic to Ben Gurion Airport for hours. Smotrich says that such protests are held by figures on the “fringe,” and despite 52 arrests, says police are failing to take on the demonstrators and are engaging in “selective enforcement.”
“The left is allowed to block roads and the right is prohibited,” he claims.
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