![]() A REMINDER OF THE values championed in Israel’s Declaration of Independence: ‘The State of Israel will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex.’ (credit: DAVID BREAKSTONE) With President Isaac Herzog’s call for dialogue between the government and the opposition on these matters as yet unheeded, and the coalition’s insistence on bringing elements of its legal revolution to a vote this past Monday, without pausing for negotiation, it would appear that Israel has moved perilously closer to the sort of estrangement Foxman has warned of – disillusionment not only among the Jewish people abroad but also felt deeply by so many at home.Įven a stalwart supporter of the Right such as Ayelet Shaked warned in her final Knesset speech as interior minister that the incoming government was already alienating many Israelis, even to the point of causing them to consider leaving the country. Simply put, Foxman concluded, “If Israel ceases to be an open democracy, I won’t be able to support it.” Should the current government prove successful in executing its declared agenda, he cautioned, Israel would lose his backing and that of 70% of world Jewry. “I never thought that I would reach that point where I would say that my support of Israel is conditional.” Abe Foxmanįoxman cited the judicial reform underway (whose opponents claim is tantamount to nothing short of regime change) proposed tampering with the Law of Return and Israel’s long-standing definition of who is a Jew looming impingement on the rights of minorities, including the LGBTQ community and other concomitant threats to Israel’s democracy. “I never thought that I would reach that point where I would say that my support of Israel is conditional,” he declared in an interview with The Jerusalem Post. Back in December, Abe Foxman, former head of the Anti-Defamation League and indisputably one of the Jewish state’s staunchest supporters, sounded the alarm. It was a wake-up call, and a rather jolting one at that. NOTE! Consider delaying until first div on page ![]() ![]() If (slot) slot.addService(googletag.pubads()) (function (a, d, o, r, i, c, u, p, w, m) Judicial reform has become Israel's watershed moment - Israel News - The Jerusalem Post
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