How far-right American Jews are enabling Netanyahu’s court takeover

Rabbi Gilad Kariv, a Labour party member of Israel's parliament, warns ultra-conservative members are pushing tighter controls

A prominent member of the Israeli parliament has a warning for America's Jewish community: one of the greatest threats to Israeli democracy comes from within its own ranks.

On a visit to New York to rally opposition against the judicial coup" by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, rabbi Gilad Kariv cautioned that rightwing forces in the Jewish community in America and ultra-right players" were driving and financing the push toward a political takeover of Israel's supreme court and nationalist policies to tighten control over the occupied Palestinian territories.