Author: Andrew O’Donohue | Journal of Democracy

Andrew O’Donohue is the Carl J. Friedrich Fellow in Harvard University’s Department of Government and coeditor of Democracies Divided: The Global Challenge of Political Polarization.

Is Israel Losing Its Last Democratic Safeguard?

Oded Haklai
Andrew O’Donohue

The country’s mass protests were its last democratic guardrail. But Israel’s wartime goals have become a higher priority than keeping Netanyahu in check.