2-13-2018 Justice Minister: Israel Must Keep Jewish Majority Even at the Expense of Human Rights - Revital Hovel Ha'aretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/justice-minister-israel-s-jewish-majority-trumps-than-human-rights-1.5811106

 

...Minister Ayelet Shaked addressed the proposed nation-state law, contending that Israel as a Jewish state must administer equal civil but not national rights.  On the coalition's intent to keep the word "equality" out of the nation-state bill, Shaked said: "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." Shaked said the word "equality" was very general and the court could take it "very far," adding, "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."...


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