nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/8604bea2a73fcd89 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250620s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/8604bea2a73fcd89 doi eng 342 23 Bassok, Or Author aut Democracy Washing - The Israeli Supreme Court’s Selective Activism Bassok, Or Verfassungsblog 2025-06-20 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The Israeli Supreme Court has recently adopted a highly activist approach in rulings that claim to strengthen the structural foundations of democracy, while neglecting its role in protecting the basic human rights of Palestinians. The stark contrast between the Court’s handling of cases involving Palestinians detained incommunicado and its swift intervention in the dismissal of the Shin Bet Director reflects a deeper pattern in the Court’s recent jurisprudence, one that can be described as “democracy washing”. CC BY-SA 4.0 Gaza Israel-Hamas War Israeli Supreme Court Judicial Activism Palestine Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/democracy-washing/ raw object