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Our Think Tank Sparked Mass Protests in Israel. We Proudly Stand By Our Ideas.
Our Think Tank Sparked Mass Protests in Israel. We Proudly Stand By Our Ideas.
A demonstrator in Tel Aviv on March 9, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)
Yesterday, protesters stormed our Jerusalem office over judicial reform proposals. Is this what democracy looks like?
By Eugene Kontorovich and Moshe Koppel
03.09.23 — U.S. Politics
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Our Think Tank Sparked Mass Protests in Israel. We Proudly Stand By Our Ideas.

If you subscribe to mainstream American newspapers—or if you read Matti Friedman’s piece the other day in these pages—perhaps you’ve heard that Israeli democracy is in grave danger because of the government’s proposed judicial reforms. The two of us are well situated to address those concerns: our think tank drafted some of the policy papers that have i…

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Eugene Kontorovich
Eugene Kontorovich is a professor of at George Mason University Scalia Law School, and head of the international law department at the Kohelet Policy Forum, a Jerusalem think-tank.
Moshe Koppel
Moshe Koppel is professor (emeritus) of computer science in Bar-Ilan University and founding chairman of the Kohelet Policy Forum.
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