The Complexities of Democracy Protests in Israel

Palestinian citizens of Israel have largely stayed on the sidelines of the country's largest and most sustained demonstrations against a government plan to overhaul the judiciary, which would likely weaken its independence. The Palestinian community sees the demonstrations as an exclusively Jewish movement unwilling to include issues that matter to them and blind to the longstanding injustices against them. Palestinian Israelis have long viewed Israel's democracy as tainted by both the country's treatment of them and its 55-year, open-ended occupation of lands the Palestinians seek for an independent state.