Chazan: Democracy is Not Majority Rule

Arutz Sheva ^ | 2/7/12 | Gil Ronen

[Eleutheria5]

Naomi Chazan has ended a tumultuous term as president of New Israel Fund (NIF), which leads the ultra-leftist camp in Israel through the use of neo-Marxist tactics and public advocacy "rights groups," and the promotion of "politically correct" Newspeak. The Fund has disbursed well over $200 million in its 23 years of existence.

In her farewell speech at the New Israel Fund's 2012 Guardian of Democracy Dinner in San Francisco last week, Chazan used Newspeak to describe the current state of events in Israel as a "tug-of-war" between the "neo-nationalist" camp in Israel and the "democratic revival" of "civil society."

Video of Naomi

Chazan made it clear that in her view, "democracy" does not refer to majority rule and that she sees Israel's democratically elected government as ruling only "on the formal level."

"When you ask Israelis today what is the best form of government in the world – it is democracy," she said. "But when you ask Israelis what is democracy, over 50% say 'majority rule.' That should get you worried. Very much so. The democratic recession has led to a neo-nationalist upsurge in Israel, which is hegemonic. It rules on the formal level."

"Neo-nationalist Israel is doing very well at the formal level," she added, noting that the coalition has 94 MKs at present.

Chazan said: "There is a neo-nationalist crackdown now. It deals with settlements and women: women's faces, women's voices, women's status, women's prayers... It deals with incitement against foreigners and against minorities within Israel. ...'"

She then explained what true democracy means, in her eyes. "The struggle against racism is a struggle for democracy. The struggle against xenophobia is a struggle for democracy. The struggle against gender discrimination is a struggle for democracy. The struggle against homophobia is a struggle for democracy."

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[Eleutheria5]

But in Egypt, they now have a democracy. They are free at last to mistreat women, hang homos, attack tourists and incite racist violence against Jooos!, Copts and anybody else who is not an Egyptian MB supporter. Yay for the Arab Spring, may it forever sproing./s

[muir_redwoods]

Ugly, stupid and deluded, that b!tch got a hat trick

[Jack Hydrazine]

“The democratic recession has led to a neo-nationalist upsurge in Israel, which is hegemonic.”

That’s correct. The number of Jews becoming more or less Torah observant continues to rise steadily while the secularists are continuing to lose membership.