It is an incredibly low bar for a nation to finally draw the line because citizens can foresee how ongoing descent into belligerent populist illiberal authoritarianism eventually reaches the stage where it personally screws over they and theirs. Alas, looking at recent world history, I don’t know if we can take even that for granted. So, uh, yay.

EDIT: I recommend the article, it really touches and expands on this theme.

To fear for the future of Israeli democracy is not to pretend that it was perfect before Netanyahu: how could it be when the occupation of Palestinian territory is now in its 57th year? To quote the slogan of one wing of the protest movement: “Democracy and occupation cannot coexist.” And yet, that cannot be an excuse for inaction: Netanyahu’s judicial coup will make things worse, including and especially for Palestinians. But it also matters to those who are a long way from Israel-Palestine and have no direct stake in it. For this is part of a wider struggle against what is now, somewhat paradoxically, an international phenomenon: ultranationalist populism.