Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked criticized the Israeli Supreme Court : “Zionism should not continue, and I say here, it will not continue to bow down to the system of individual rights interpreted in a universal way that divorces them from the history of the Knesset and the history of legislation that we all know,”
Shaked said she considered the system of individual rights important, but “not when it is disconnected from context, from our national tasks, from our identity, from our history, from our Zionist challenges.”
Regarding the nation-state bill, Shaked said that those who oppose it “believe that a Basic Law that gives prominence to our national and Zionist values will make us less democratic. I, on the other hand, see the individual rights that the Knesset has recognized as an absolute truth, and I also see our national and Zionist values as an absolute truth.”
The head of the Hatnuah faction of the Zionist Union, Tzipi Livni, said: “Zionism isn’t bowing down to human rights. It is proudly raising its head, because protecting [human rights] is also the essence of Judaism and part of Israel’s values as a Jewish and democratic state.”
The above statements are extracts from Haaretz Article :
