The leader of the right-wing National Union party, MK Bezalel Smotrich, says he will combat the “indoctrination” of liberal democracy in Israeli schools if appointed the country’s next education minister.
Smotrich, whose National Union recently merged with the Union of Right Wing Parties, also says that, as education minister, he will not invest in educationally impoverished areas, since “there will always be gaps” and “I’m not a communist.”
Head of the National Union faction MK Bezalel Smotrich during a conference of the Movement for the Quality of Government, in Modiin, February 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
“For many years, there has been religious coercion in the school system, there is religious indoctrination that cannot be accepted. The committee overseeing the study of civics coerces us to learn the religion of liberal democracy,” Smotrich tells party members at a conference.
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