Episode description
A day after Israel's passage of a highly contested bill to curb the power of the Supreme Court, Mickey Gitzin, director of the New Israel Fund, a non-profit in Jerusale that works to advance liberal democracy in Israel, and Nivine Sandouka, a Palestinian who heads the NGO Our Rights in Jerusalem, discuss its significance, the dangers of the far-right government, the contradictions in the Israeli protest movement and some new openings for progress they see emerging. Gili Getz, chair of the board of American Friends of Combatants for Peace, which sponsored the discussion, moderates. Combatants for Peace is a peace group composed of former Israeli and Palestinian fighers, which since 2006 has worked to promote peace and end the Israeli military occupation.