{"id":1439,"date":"2018-02-28T23:39:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T23:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2018-02-28T23:39:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T23:39:33","slug":"ayelet-shaked-israel-must-safeguard-jewish-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2018\/02\/28\/ayelet-shaked-israel-must-safeguard-jewish-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayelet Shaked: Israel must safeguard Jewish majority"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Minister Ayelet Shaked says keeping Israel’s Jewish majority is justified, even ‘at the price’ of rights violations.<\/p>\n

Israel must safeguard a Jewish majority even at the expense of human rights, the country’s justice minister has said in a speech defending a bill that would legally define\u00a0<\/span>Israel<\/a>\u00a0as the “national home of the Jewish people” for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ayelet Shaked said on Monday that Israel must maintain\u00a0both\u00a0a Jewish majority and democracy, but stressed that keeping the state’s Jewish character may come “at the price” of human rights violations.<\/p>\n

“There is place to maintain a Jewish majority even at the price of violation of rights,” Shaked told a conference in Tel Aviv on Monday, Israeli media reported.<\/p>\n

In her speech, Shaked, a member of the far-right Jewish Home party, defended\u00a0the so-called Jewish Nation-State Bill, which would constitutionally define Israel as the national home of the Jewish people for the first time.<\/p>\n

“There are places where the character of the State of Israel as a Jewish state must be maintained, and this sometimes comes at the expense of equality,” Shaked said, as reported by Israel’s Haaretz newspaper.<\/p>\n

Shaked said Israel must administer equal civil, but not national, rights.<\/p>\n

“Israel is a Jewish state. It isn’t a state of all its nations. That is, equal rights to all citizens but not equal national rights,” she said.<\/p>\n

‘Highly dangerous’<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The contentious Nation-State Bill, which still needs to be approved by Israel’s parliament, the Knesset,\u00a0passed<\/a>\u00a0a preliminary reading last May. It is expected to be brought to a first reading later this year.<\/p>\n

The bill states that “the right to exercise national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people”.<\/p>\n

It also demotes Arabic from an official language to a language with “special status”, even though it is the mother tongue of approximately 1.7 million Palestinian citizens of the state.<\/p>\n

Adalah, a legal centre for Palestinian citizens of Israel,\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that, because the bill would become a Basic Law in Israel, i.e. constitutionally binding, “its\u00a0enactment could be used\u00a0to justify through law widespread discrimination” against Israel’s non-Jewish citizens.<\/p>\n

For that reason, it is “highly dangerous”, the group said.<\/p>\n

The bill would also force all citizens of the state, regardless of their religion, to comply with Jewish civil law, often without legal precedent,\u00a0explained<\/a>\u00a0Mossawa, an advocacy centre for Palestinian citizens of Israel, in a position paper.<\/p>\n

The legislation “clearly denigrates the non-Jewish, Palestinian Arab minority to the status of second-class citizens”, Mossawa concluded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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