Gantz promotes ‘Equality Law’ & IDF reform – Shaked opposes

T. Belman.

“Minister Ayelet Shaked and other members on the right fear increasing the maneuvering space of the High Court, when it comes to issues of identity and national rights.”

They are right, of course. Just as the High Court wreaked havoc with the Basic Law on Dignity“, it will wreak havoc on the Equality Law. It will do this even if the law is amended to stipulate that nothing in the law shall be construed to give citizens national or identity rights. The High Court will find a way.

Given how the high Court has defined “dignity” there is no need for the Equality law.

The Minister of Defense plans to promote the enactment of two Basic Laws, which are supposed to supplement the Nationality Law of 2018, and to promote reform in the IDF service.

ISRAEL HAYOM

Defense Minister Bnei Gantz is expected to advance three laws in the coming weeks, designed to solidify Israel’s national identity.

These are the Equality Law, the Basic Law of the Declaration of Independence and the reform of the service.

According to Ganz, passing these laws would complete the Nationality Act that provoked a public outcry when enacted in 2018, and eliminate the need to amend it.

But these laws may cause controversy within the conflicted coalition anyway, as it is known that Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked and other members on the right fear increasing the maneuvering space of the High Court, when it comes to issues of identity and national rights.

The equality bill, which is supposed to anchor the right to equality and establish a prohibition of discrimination, came up three weeks ago in the Ministerial Committee for Legislation, where it was decided to provide ministers with a one-month postponement in order to reach agreements.

The wording of the law, submitted by MK Eitan Ginzburg (blue and white), states: “Every citizen is equal before the law;

“And a person’s individual rights are not violated because of religion, race, sex, sexual orientation, personal status, country of origin, age or disability.”

Now, towards the end of the rejection period, a source in blue and white says: “Once again we encounter opposition from Ayelet Shaked only. All the other coalition parties and its members agree to promote the law, both on the right and on the left.”

The sources added that they are “sure that a wording can be found that even the minister can live with in peace.”

“Rely on the common”

Another source in blue and white says: “Too many laws are failing to move forward because of Minister Shaked’s ultimatums. She has to decide which battles are important to her, and what she is compromising with the rest of the coalition.”

He said in talks with the joint list, the Arab Party said that as they supported the law in the preliminary reading last time, they could positively consider filling in the missing fingers if necessary, so that Shaked and other right-wing MKs could not vote for these initiatives.

Regarding the legislative initiatives, the party added: “We want to stabilize the status of the State of Israel as a Jewish state, and solve the problem of no small public, like the Druze, who even though they take part in the debts – they are excluded from the equality declarations in the State of Israel. “The other two issues, it will address those groups that feel excluded.”

Gantz also seeks to anchor the Declaration of Independence in a Basic Law.

The third issue that they are interested in promoting in blue and white and that they have begun working on is the service reform, which seeks to correct the way in which they serve in the IDF.

The reform is supposed to examine the decline in IDF recruitment rates, and the nature of service to the state by various groups such as the ultra-Orthodox, Arabs, religious women and other sectors. The assumption is that whoever serves the state – his commitment to it is stronger.

As mentioned, Basic Law: Israel – the nation state of the Jewish people, states that the State of Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people, and enshrines in the Basic Law the status of state symbols and Jewish holidays, and the status of the Hebrew language as the state language.

Over the years, MKs have tried to expand it to include the democratic principles of the state, giving equality to all its citizens, which angered minorities in the country, and led to demonstrations by Druze and Arab citizens. The damage to the Arab status.

January 2, 2022 | 7 Comments »

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  1. It all looked so good when Trump moved the embassy . SO of course , now there is the coalition … I was hoping for 5th elections…

  2. “Palestinian Emirates” is “the baby” of Prf. Mordecai Kedar! Those emirates would have NO armies, just police forces with external security provided by Israel.

  3. @dinastar578@gmail.com

    then same amount of non-jews will be allotted immigration rights as jews

    The above = The Arab Law of Return under the guise of improving Israel’s democracy (the only one in the ME).

    In the meanwhile, there is a carrot in the possibility of the American visa waiver for the Israelis to encourage yeridah.

  4. There is a “conspiracy theory” that in the year 2023 at the latest there will be an Arab Emirate with a Jewish autonomous area in place of Israel.

    There are different versions of the theory.

    Personally, I am almost convinced that the whole government, including the IDF, is building a “Palestinian” state and is planning to put the Israeli public and the world Jewry before the fact no later than 2023.

    This is really astonishing in the light of the rising antisemitism, including in the US, which traditionally was assumed by all Jews to be our safe haven.

    They’ve been boiling the frog slowly since the late 1980s.

    You just have to make a factual timeline of all their (both Left and “Right” – I think the “Right” is even worse) actions (through today) to see it.

    Kenneth Levin’s book The Oslo Syndrome is very helpful in this regard but it doesn’t cover the last (almost) 20 years.

  5. The not so hidden project of the ” left ” is to cancel the Law of Return ; Gantz and his ilk will eliminate ethnic-religious preference granted to the jews ….then same amount of non-jews will be allotted immigration rights as jews ; It’s time Shaked steps down from this lousy carnival government .