Under the slogan, He’s dismantling our democracy, it’s time to dismantle his outpost, Peace Now will help lead a protest on August 4 to the illegal outpost of Pnei Kedem, where Simcha Rothman lives.
Rothman, a Member of Knesset with the Religious Zionist Party, is one of the kingpins behind the judicial overhaul that seeks to neuter the Supreme court so as to advance a radical, illiberal, annexationist agenda.
For months Peace Now has pointed out the direct connection between the settler-driven occupation of the West Bank and the anti-democratic actions of the coalition government, some of whose key members are settlers. The protest at Rothman’s place of residence, an unauthorized outpost even under Israeli law, aims to drive this message home.
Says Peace Now:
“Amidst the government’s judicial overhaul, settlers are quietly expanding their enterprise, seeking to annex the territory and erase the Green Line.
While the world stays silent and Israeli public attention focuses on preventing the judicial coup, the government moves hastily towards an annexation coup, threatening to transform Israel into an apartheid state….
Rothman and his partners are the architects of the judicial overhaul, undermining the judiciary and law enforcement to further their messianic, Jewish supremacist, and racist agenda, expanding plunder and theft in the occupied West Bank.”
The demonstration is organized by Peace Now and a coalition of organizations, including Standing Together, Combatants for Peace, Breaking the Silence, Mothers Against Violence, Machsom Watch, Mechazkim, Mari´dim, The Democratim, the Anti-Messianic Coalition, and Kumi Israel.
Pnei Kedem is located on a hilltop in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc. Built in 2000, It was given the status of a permanent township in 2003 without being legalized.
