Tag: Netanyahus

Starmer rebukes Netanyahu’s ‘unacceptable’ comments on Palestine

UK Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has described Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s opposition to the establishment of a Palestinian state when the war in the Middle East ends as “unacceptable”. In a hardening of tone towards Mr Netanyahu, Mr Starmer said it was wrong to suggest that statehood was “in the gift of a […]

Israel’s Top Court Overturns Netanyahu’s Judicial Oversight Law

(Bloomberg) — Israel’s Supreme Court overturned a highly contested law aimed at weakening the justices’ own power in a loss to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition. Most Read from Bloomberg The court, sitting with all 15 justices for the first time ever, struck down by a vote of 8 to 7 a law passed […]

Key component of Netanyahu’s polarising judicial overhaul is overturned

Israel’s Supreme Court has struck down a key component of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul, a decision that threatens to reopen the fissures in Israeli society that preceded the country’s ongoing war against Hamas. Those divisions were largely put aside while the country focuses on the war in Gaza, which was triggered by […]