Which are Israel’s democratic values ?

JPC qd
2 min readJul 13, 2018

I mean : the Israeli Values which the EU is talking about. Here is a good summary : (extract from ISRAEL’s Declaration of Independance 1948)

“The state of Israel will promote the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; will be based on precepts of liberty, justice and peace taught by the Hebrew prophets; will uphold the full social and political equality of all its citizens without distinction of race, creed or sex; will guarantee full freedom of conscience, worship, education and culture; will safeguard the sanctity and inviolability of shrines and holy places of all religions; and will dedicate itself to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.”

The EU pretends to believe that these values are threatened by the Nation Bill. But the hypocrites well know that these values are NOT met today !

There are many direct & indirect discriminations within the State of Israel. And discriminations are not something new: they have been present since the early years of the State:

Also, the citizenship is asymmetrical : it is not the same for all citizens.

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