Critics of judicial reforms initiated by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say it would weaken the Judiciary and pave way for authoritarianism by concentrating too much power with the Executive.
The law would protect the Prime Minister of Israel from being deemed unfit to rule because of his corruption trial and claims of a conflict of interest surrounding his involvement in the legal changes.
According to the opinion piece published on Monday, the BJP is poorly understood in the West because it grows out of a political and cultural history unfamiliar to most non-Indians.