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'We’re on the point of a fascist dictatorship,' Knesset member Ofer Kassif instructed Marc Lamont Hill.
Over the previous 5 months, Israel's warfare on Gaza has triggered widespread destruction and greater than 30,000 deaths.
In January, the Worldwide Court docket of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague discovered that there was a possible threat that Israel might commit genocide.
Whereas the ICJ case has confronted opposition from Israel's political class, there are additionally those that have voiced assist. Israeli Parliament member Ofer Kassif has been a vocal supporter of ICJ procedures – a place that final week resulted in an unsuccessful try and expel him from Israel's legislature, the Knesset.
So what’s the worth of dissent in Israel within the present local weather?
This week on Upfront, Marc Lamont Hill talks to Cassiff in regards to the present political local weather in Israel and highlights the strain inside Israel to silence dissent.