V-Dem index cites government attacks on judiciary and ‘substantive decline’ in freedom from torture as reason Israel is now considered an ‘electoral democracy’ – in which elections are held but civil liberties and equality before the law are not safeguarded

As a result of the Israeli government’s judicial overhaul and repeated attacks by ministers on the country’s justice system, Israel has been downgraded from a “liberal democracy” to an “electoral democracy” by one of the world’s most important indices for assessing the nature of a country’s governmental system.

  • FlowVoid@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Let me save you a click. The US is still considered a liberal democracy.

    Let me save you another click. Israel is now in the same category as Portugal, Austria, and Greece.

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      v-dem democracy index map
      v-dem democracy index map figure subtext

      USA, Portugal and Austria are ranked between 0.7 and 0.8.
      Israel and Greece are between 0.5 and 0.6.

      For comparison: France, Germany, Sweden and Estonia are 0.8-0.9, all beating the US

      edit: added subtext of figure 1

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    The fact that they ever considered an apartheid state a democracy proves their judgement is worthless.

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    And it might get worse after the end of the war, if the dissenters who will bring up the atrocities committed are the minority.

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    I find it hilarious that a country with a voting system like the US is considered by these guys a “liberal democracy”.

    Nowadays even the liberal part is under threat (*cough* criminalization of abortion *cough*) whilst the “democracy” part has always been smoke and mirrors, being mathematically rigged for power duopoly.

    Then again, as somebody else pointed out, these guys consider Appartheid Israel a liberal democracy, so they’re consistently off.

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      I kinda wonder whether they bother generating new maps, or if they just recolor the “always the same map” map:

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