The “Not with a Bang, But with a Press Conference” Edition
We discuss: 1) What the hell just happened and what’s gonna happen next 2) Whether Benjamin Netanyahu has lost a step, or maybe a marble
Read MoreWe discuss: 1) What the hell just happened and what’s gonna happen next 2) Whether Benjamin Netanyahu has lost a step, or maybe a marble
Read MoreWe discuss: 1) the President’s compromise plan for judicial reform and why it failed 2) Mijal’s notion of “Ne’emanut” and how maybe there’s more to morality than being principled
Read MoreWe discuss: 1) the growing number of elite reservists refusing to serve because of the judicial reform 2) whether the energy behind the protests comes mostly from secular folks who are fed up with religious folks
Read MoreIn this very special episode, recorded on a “National Day of Resistance Against Dictatorship,” Noah tries your patience trying to figure out what the hell this conflict is about
Read MoreWe discuss: 1) the rampage on Huwara that many here are calling a pogrom 2) the weirdly prominent place of flags in the protests against the judicial reform, and what it means
Read MoreWe discuss: 1) The new, questionable tactics of the demonstrations against judicial reforms 2) A long and self-exposing interview with former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Aharon Barak, the most revered and reviled man in Israel
Read MoreWe discuss: 1) President Herzog’s worried speech to the nation, calling on politicians “to extinguish the explosive fire of division, before it destroys us” 2) Why we don’t hear much of the voices of Palestinian citizens of Israel at the big demonstrations
Read MoreWe discuss: 1) A proposed reform that would give school principals the power to fire bad teachers and give extra pay to the good ones, bringing free-market principles to grade-school principals 2) Why Nazis are so much on the minds of so many who are fighting Netanyahu’s judicial reforms
Read MoreWe discuss: 1) The nearly daily, sometimes deadly Palestinian attacks on Jews, and their impact on the protests against Netanyahu’s reforms 2) The sudden rise of a (very small) religious left, and what it says about today and means for tomorrow
Read MoreWe discuss: 1) Whether the very different natures of the protests in Jerusalem, Haifa and Beer Sheva offer a corrective to the much bigger demonstrations in Tel Aviv 2) Whether it’s right for ostensibly apolitical universities, professors and students to protest the government on campus
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