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At Independence Day ceremony, Edelstein warns of social divisions
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIn his speech at the start of Israel’s 68th Independence Day, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein warns against the divisions in Israeli society.
“The serious phenomena of denigration and incitement has not, to my regret, passed the Israeli public by,” he says.
“The tensions that characterize us, and which are often healthy, have exceeded the boundaries of good taste. Widespread freedom of expression, the lifeblood of democracy, is often characterized by offensive discourse. Utterances have become more and more extreme: sector by sector, belief against belief and worldview against worldview.”
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