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April 10, 2023

America’s Misguided Involvement in Israel’s Constitutional Controversies

A flurry of partisan statements about the Jewish state contrasts with silence about France.

While proposed judicial reforms plunged the Jewish state into fierce political debate and social unrest last month, President Biden along with several senior members of his administration did not hesitate to voice their opinions. Elliott Abrams contrasts this active rhetorical intervention to Washington’s apparent indifference to a similarly intense political imbroglio in France, and notes several reasons, “all political and all worrying,” for the discrepancy. Among them is that “a Democratic administration will criticize what it views as right-wing governments and leaders in other countries.”

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