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Podcast: Beyond Politics
Episode: Why is Israel Erupting Again? Leader of Pro-Democracy Protests Explains.
Description: As we record this on the morning of July 11, Israel has once against broken out in massive protests after an overnight vote in their Parliament that pushed forward the far-right governing coalition’s plan to limit their judiciary. Protestors see the plan as nothing less that a more stealthy version of the overt power grab that Prime Minister Netanyahu
announced in January and that led to a shutdown of the country in March.
One of co-founders of the pro-democracy protest movement is Gilead
Sher. He is a former Chief of Staff and Policy Coordinator to Israeli Prime
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