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