Comrade Weingarten calls for strikes in Israel over judicial reforms

Pro-teachers anti-Students Randi Weingarten

Comrade Randi Weingarten likes to mind the business of other countries that haven't asked for her opinion, but since when has that ever stopped a far-left busybody from telling others what to do or not to do? 

Weingarten, the president of the Federation of Teachers, the second largest teachers' union in the nation, has called for a "general strike" after Israel's parliament passed a law that restricts their Supreme Court's power. In other words, Israel is smart enough to limit the powers of a few, unelected justices from making decisions the people of Israel might not go along with. And let's not forget that she made the decision to keep schools closed during the two-year pandemic that seriously affected students across the nation when it was known that the coronavirus was generally not dangerous to children. 

So it's obvious that Weingarten's allegiances were never to the kids she pretended to advocate for, it was always to the cowardly teachers.

"I’m deeply moved by the fierce protests for democracy in Israel," Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, tweeted Saturday morning. "I stand in solidarity with the protesters. Workers have NO rights without democracy. The time is now to get off the fence & take a stand. If ever there was a time for a general strike in Israel, the time is now!"

So again, taking power away from government is somehow a blow to democracy, and not the other way around. This is typical leftist thinking.

The new law takes the power away from the Supreme Court to strike down any law for being, in their opinion, "unreasonable," and it passed 64-0. This was the first win in a push by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies in the Knesset to pass a series of judicial reform bills that have been met with massive protests across the country.

And quite honestly, it's none of Weingarten's business and certainly not having anything to do with education, which is supposed to be her "expertise," but we all know that isn't true.

"The push to topple democratic consensus in Israel by a right-wing, extreme government, must be challenged," Weingarten said in a press statement. "We are heartened that the Israeli public is challenging them at home, and we pledge to do everything in our power to stand with the pro-democracy protesters and to protect democracy in Israel."

While it appears the Israeli public would like a lot of old laws struck down by the Supreme Court, it isn't going to happen and they will just have to obey the laws on the books. After all, who does Israel think they are? California? Detroit?

Weingarten was a failure with her covid policies in the schools and there's no reason to believe she has Israel's best interests in mind. She just wants her ideology to trump common sense, just like the protesters who want the removal of laws they find inconvenient. But she's a lesbian so we must take her seriously.

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