Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. His latest book is Peace Movements in Islam, and his award-winning blog is Informed Comment. He is also a nonresident fellow of the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies in Doha and of Democracy for the Arab World Now.

08.13.2023

• Juan Cole

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Judicial Reform Is About Supercharging the Occupation of Palestine

Last month, the Israeli Knesset passed a measure severely limiting the Supreme Court’s powers. The central motivation: ensuring the courts won’t be able to interfere with plans to vastly increase the number of Israeli squatter settlements on Palestinian land.