For years I have been claiming in postings, blog entries and articles that the ex-Chief Justice of Israel, Aharon Barak (not related to Ehud) is an anti-democratic anti-Israel leftist extremist moonbat. Barak was the leading proponent in Israel of the anti-democratic doctrine of “judicial activism,” which should be called judicial tyranny, under which non-elected judges make up laws and dictate governmental policy about just about everything. Barak also insisted that anyone who happens to sit on the Israeli Supreme Court should issue rulings based on “enlightened opinion,” which means whatever Aharon Barak personally thinks in any given week, and that those same sitting judges should perpetually select other judges by themselves to sit on the Supreme Court and other courts, regardless of what the Israeli voter wants.

When I would slap around Barak in my postings, many people objected that I was showing disrespect to Israel’s Chief Justice, and was exaggerating his anti-democratic tendencies. Last week Barak had the kindness to step forward and prove that I was correct, and in fact showed I was underestimating his political biases and dislike for democracy.

Last week, Barak took off his muzzle, now that he is retired, and launched a malicious broadside against Israel, Zionism, and “settlers.” The most outrageous thing he said was that the Jews were plotting to throw the Arabs into the sea. The truth of course is that the Arabs are trying to throw the Jews into the sea, but Orwellian inversions are the favorite tactic of leftist cranks. Barak also criticized Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria as an “occupation,” and said the Israeli presence there leads to human rights offenses and racism elsewhere in Israel. His presence on the Supreme Court produced anti-democratic restrictions to freedom of speech and to the trashing of any form of checks and balances on the court’s “activism,” and led to an explosion in anti-Jewish racism by Israeli Arabs and Jewish leftists.

There are numerous news reports on the Barak outburst. Here is one from Ynet.

Aharon Barak: Jews want equality, and to kick Arabs out

Former Supreme Court president criticizes human rights situation in the ‘occupied territories’, says it indirectly effects situation within Israel and warns, ‘If we don’t find a way to live in peace with the Arabs, we won’t find a way to live in peace with ourselves’

Daniel Edelson

Published: 06.25.09, 13:22 / Israel News

Speaking at a New Israel Fund legal conference at the Rabin Center in Tel Aviv, former Supreme Court President Aharon Barak said, “The situation of human rights in the occupied territories is problematic, and this situation has an indirect effect on human rights in Israel.”

Barak, who said he is a “big believer in a state of all its citizens”, while maintaining its Jewish character, criticized the general Jewish public.

“If you ask a Jew whether he supports equality with the Arabs, he will say: ‘Certainly’, and if you ask if he supports kicking all the Arabs out of here, he will say: ‘Certainly’. He sees no contradiction between the two,” Barak said.

Of course, in a way there is no contradiction. Both actions lead to peace. The first leads to peace as dhimmis under Sahria Law in an Islamic Republic of Palestine. The second to peace in a Democratic Jewish state from which all the murdering Islamic terrorists have been deported. Barak should ask Israelis a third question, “which solution would you prefer?” – - Isaac