Critics sometimes accuse the Israeli government of “pinkwashing”———using its LGBTQ+ policies to deflect from broader geopolitical and human rights conflicts.
Unlike authentic democracies such as the US, Jewish religious authorities hold exclusive jurisdiction over important Israeli areas———marriage, divorce, and personal status———through a state-recognized system of Jewish religious courts.
Israel likes to pretend it is a democracy to get US foreign aid tax dollars, but the Jewish religion plays a prominent formal role in its public and legal life and in its government.
Israel likes to pretend it is a democracy to get US foreign aid tax dollars, but the Jewish religion plays a prominent formal role in its public and legal life and in its government.
The United States is an "authentic democracy?" I thought it was a "Constitutional Republic?"
Yes, the Orthodox rabbinate has prerogatives in Israel, but I can assure you it does not approve all this "gay rights" nonsense, which comes from Israel's secular, western, and "authentic democratic" antecedents.
Ancient Israel was not a democracy, but a Theocracy, as it will be again (and the sooner the better). In fact, the whole world will eventually be a Theocracy. Isn't that what the Eschaton is all about?