by Ludwig Watzal
There, said it! Zionism contradicts not only human rights but also universal justice. Zionism is above all. No less than the Israeli Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked said this at a conference organized by the Israeli Bar Association in Tel Aviv. Haaretz journalist Gideon Levy calls her „Israel’s Minister of Truth.“ The top echelons of right-wing Zionism negate human rights.
Shaked and their ilk have been very critical of Israel’s High Court of Justice. In her speech, she criticized the court for giving insufficient attention to Zionism and the country’s Jewish majority. Zionism and the challenges the country is facing have become a blind spot, which carries no certain weight in comparison to individual rights. According to her, demography and the Jewish majority should be taken more into consideration. Perhaps the Israeli courts should follow Saudi Arabia’s or Turkey’s examples.
„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. The Netanyahu government pushes the controversial „nation-state bill“ that will determine that Israel is the „national home of the Jewish people“ and only they can realize the right to self-determination in the state. Shaked considers national and Zionist values as an „absolute truth.“ Weiterlesen
