Lisa Magarrell is <a href=http://www.ictj.org/en/about/staff/4011.html>programme director</a> at the <a href=http://www.ictj.org/en/>International Center for Transitional Justice</a>
A series of legislative measures in Israel will further constrain Israel’s beleaguered human-rights groups. A proposed commission to monitor their work highlights the real motive behind these efforts, say Lisa Magarrell & Iain Levine.