Given the recent tragic events and the inability of our speakers to come to New York, the October 24th event, The War Over a Democratic Future in Israel, is cancelled. Let us hope for better days.
Demonstration against the judicial overhaul at Kaplan Street Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, July 15, 2023 (Gilad Furst)
The War over a Democratic Future in Israel (CANCELLED)
A View from the Ground with a Glance to the Rest of the World.
October 24, 2023 5PM
The Rifkind Room 6/316
Since its election in November 2022, Israel's first ever exclusively conservative government has attempted to restrict and control the judiciary, the media, the universities, the public schools and the police. Against these attempts, a large-scale, broad coalition protest movement has emerged as a counterforce.
Professors Sagi and Ben Yishai have both written about abuses of governmental power and are also deeply involved in this protest movement. They will be in conversation with CCNY's Mikhal Dekel, who also holds degrees in Law and literature.
Ayelet Ben Yishai holds degrees in both law and literature and is currently Chair of the English Department at the University of Haifa, where she specializes in postcolonial and Victorian literature and culture. Her latest book, Genres of Emergency: Crisis and Continuity in Indian Writing in English (Oxford 2023), is a cultural and literary history of the 1975 Emergency in India.
Yair Sagi is professor of law at Haifa University, specializing in Israeli and American public law, the history of the Israeli judiciary, and history and theory of regulation in Israel and the US. He is a key figure in the Israeli protest movement and a member of the Israeli Law Professors’ Forum for Democracy & Academics for a Democratic Israel.