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Well, this sums it up well. Though IsraHell declined to follow up the anti-Boycott
bill by passing a law calling for the investigation of human rights organizations,
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was not
Source: Reuters
From Ha’aretz,
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman criticized Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud ministers for their opposition
to a bill calling for parliamentary investigations into left-wing
organizations. Speaking during Sunday’s cabinet meeting, Lie-
berman said the bodies slated for investigation were not left-
wing groups but terror organizations.
Fascinatingly, Netanyahu refused to support the bill because of
“Delegitimization, ” which either means he argues that for every-
thing he does, or he recognizes that repressive laws are what delegt-
imizes Israel, while the human rights groups it mentions are among
its last hopes.
in an emailed press statement.
New Profile Denounces Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman
New Profile rejects and denounces Minister Lieberman’s choice to call New
Profile and other human rights organizations “terrorist organizations”.
New Profile is a civil feminist movement active against institutionalized violence
and for dialogue and peace, for demilitarizing Israeli society, for freedom of
conscience, equality and justice for all – Arabs and Jews, women and men,
including those choosing not to serve in the IDF.
New Profile persists in its commitment to non-violence and encourages true,
open civil discourse in Israel. Minister Lieberman kindles and leads incitement
against human rights and civil society organizations in this country.
The attempt to slur as “terrorist” any view critical of the ruling power’s ideas
expresses a basic misunderstanding of democracy and presents any
controversy as an existential threat that must be eliminated.
We call upon the public in Israel to ask itself and its elected representatives why
criticism and independent thinking threaten them as much as terrorist actions.
Inflaming fear and trembling of real and imagined foes perpetuates the situation
whereby war, inequality and racism are regarded a must, manifest destiny. It is
not. The choice is in our hands, we the citizens – choosing to live in an
egalitarian, non-violent, civil and democratic society.
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