Why Every Reform in Israel Starts with a Slogan and Ends in Shouting
Almost every Israeli reform looks the same.
Same new slogan, same commentators, same protests, same panel with the same person saying “I just want to finish a trial.”
Almost every Israeli reform looks the same.
Same new slogan, same commentators, same protests, same panel with the same person saying “I just want to finish a trial.”
The culture of negating the other is a symptom of a deeper crisis: a loss of faith in dialogue and in our ability to deal with different opinions. It reflects a left that has lost its way, that has forgotten the values of freedom and openness that it once championed.
From a right-wing perspective, the solution is not a counter-boycott or silencing of the left, but a return to open discourse, in which opinions are examined on the basis of arguments, not mass outrage.