Don’t Let Israel’s Democracy Become a Law for Everyone Except the Chosen Few

The parable of the law harming redheads is an argument used for years by those who support the High Court of Justice’s authority to strike down Knesset laws that violate fundamental principles of democracy. “If the Knesset passes a law that denies basic rights only to redheads, would you still argue that the High Court of Justice shouldn’t intervene?” the argument goes.