Israeli Democracy is Healthy Unless You Hate Democratic Outcomes | The Times of Israel

everal years ago the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations convened in Jerusalem and one of the panels featured Naomi Chazan, a left-of-center academic and former MK, and Zalman Shoval, a right-of-center former ambassador to the United States. The Likud was in power and Chazan urged American Jews to be more openly critical of the Israeli government to which Shoval responded that she didn’t feel that way when Labor was in power. This brief exchange captured the essence of the hypocrisy of the American Jewish and Israeli left who only believe in democracy when it suits them; that is, when Israel adopts their preferred policies.