I Took Up Arms to Defend Israel. Now I March Against Its Government.
Protesters hold Israeli flags and signs Saturday evening in Tel Aviv. (Eyal Warshavsky via Getty Images)
Anyone who loves the Jewish state should be speaking out against its proposed judicial reform. Matti Friedman writes.
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Matti Friedman, the author of today’s essay, is among Israel’s most articulate and insightful writers. Perhaps that’s because the Jewish state is his chosen country.
Friedman immigrated from Canada as a teenager in 1995 and served in the military, as he outlines in his magnificent book Pumpkinflowers. In the years since, in other books and in countless …
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