Consul of Israel in New York Asaf Zamir speaks at a conference for Jewish donors and refers to the legal revolution.
March 17, 2023 (documentation on the networks according to section 27a)
Israel's Consul General in New York, Assaf Zamir, expressed concern yesterday about the consequences of the government's plan to weaken the justice system on Israeli democracy.
Zamir said these things during an event with hundreds of Jewish donors in New York.
A video of his words came into my possession.
what did he say:
Zamir said at a fundraising event for the "Ano" museum that took place last night in New York that in the last 18 months since he took office, he explained the positions of the Israeli government in New York.
He noted that sometimes he said things he agreed with and sometimes he said things he did not agree with, as any diplomat does.
"Sometimes it's easier and sometimes it's harder. But that's no longer the case in recent weeks. I'm deeply concerned about the direction the country is going right now...if we want to have a national home and for it to be everyone's home - it must be democratic," said Zamir .
Zamir refused to comment.
The first incumbent diplomat to publicly criticize the legal revolution.
Zamir (photo: official website, Mark Israel Salem)
why is it important:
Zamir, appointed to his position by former Foreign Minister Yair Lapid as a political appointee, is the first incumbent diplomat to publicly criticize the government's plan to weaken the justice system.
reminder:
Israel's former ambassador to France, Yael German, who was also a political appointee of Lapid, resigned from her position the day after the new government was sworn in.
In the resignation letter she sent to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, she wrote that the composition of the government "endangers the character and values of the State of Israel."
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The big picture:
Senior officials of the Jewish community in New York, most of whose members are liberal and affiliated with the Democratic Party, have in recent weeks expressed growing concern about the government's plan to weaken the justice system.
A few weeks ago, Eric Godelstein, the CEO of the New York Federation, the largest of all Jewish federations in the United States, published a public letter in which he sharply and exceptionally criticized the Netanyahu government's plan.
"This legislation raises dramatic concerns...it is something that will undermine the basic foundations of democracy in Israel and subject the various minorities in Israel to the tyranny of the majority," he wrote at the time.
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