How Israel's democracy is being crushed: Not with violence, but by the normalization of the intolerable
When the media frames verbal assaults on democratic institutions – like the recent attacks on the Supreme Court president – as a 'legitimate debate,' it's not reflecting reality, it's shaping it
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Finance Minister Smotrich. While Channel 12 commentators were seriously discussing the advantages and disadvantages of running over the Supreme Court president, as he suggested, the Shin Bet was already knocking on the doors of protest activists. Credit: Oren Ben Hakoon
When the media frames verbal assaults on democratic institutions – like the recent attacks on the Supreme Court president – as a 'legitimate debate,' it's not reflecting reality, it's shaping it





