Amir Alon, ynetnews.com; article contains additional illustrations
Novelists, poets, playwrights, screenwriters and others urge the prime minister and members of Knesset to cancel the controversial Nationality Law and amend the Surrogacy Law, which 'are part of a long list of actions by the various Israeli governments that have unjustly penalized the most excluded and disadvantaged sectors in both Jewish and Israeli society.'
Image from article, with caption: Likud ministers and MKs celebrate Nationality Law passage with a selfie
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The [writers] protested the fact that "Those two laws exclude Christian and Muslim Arabs (including Bedouin), Druze and Circassians, and violate the LGBTQ community’s right for parenthood. They are part of a long list of actions by the various governments of the State of Israel that you [JB - Netanyahu] have headed, from 1996 to 1999 and from 2009 to this day, and have unjustly penalized the most excluded and disadvantaged sectors in both Jewish and Israeli society, including Reform and Conservative Judaism, the Arab (including Bedouin), Druze and Circassian minorities, the sick and elderly, Holocaust survivors and differently-abled people, single women, Ethiopian Jews and many more."
"During your years in office, you and those governments have persistently eroded the foundations of our Jewish-democratic country," they accused. "You have damaged the relations between Israel and United States Jewry; you have sentenced huge populations to continued poverty and hardship; and you have knowingly and purposely damaged Israel's education system, public diplomacy [JB emphasis], culture and economy, defense and welfare.
"By doing so, you have done severe harm to Israeli society. But the most severe damage has affected the values of equality and mutual responsibility, on which Israel's society is based and from which it draws its strength." ...
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