A lot of ink has been spilled during the recent months defining Netanyahu’s reform of Israel’s judiciary as an “assault on Israeli democracy” and a “judicial coup.” The Israeli Supreme Court began hearing arguments against the reform on Tuesday in what is being described as a “constitutional crisis.”  But a closer look at the political-legal agendas and historical development of some of the most ethno-nationalist sectors of the Israeli government reveals a more complicated relationship between the judicial overhaul, the Occupation, and Israel’s settler democracy. More

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