Activists rally in Tel Aviv against loyalty oath

By BEN HARTMAN 
10/11/2010 05:51

Artists, intellectuals, MKs express fears that Israel becoming fascist country at protest in front of old Tel Aviv Museum.

Around 150 protesters gathered in Tel Aviv on Sunday to protest the cabinet’s approval Sunday of an amendment to the Citizenship Law that will require non-Jews seeking Israeli citizenship to swear loyalty to Israel as “a Jewish and democratic state.”

The rally was held outside of Independence Hall in Tel Aviv, where David Ben-Gurion declared the independence of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948. The demonstrators included academics, artists, and Hadash MK Dov Henin, Meretz MK Nitzan Horovitz, and Labor’s MK Eitan Cabel and MK Daniel Ben-Simon.

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During the rally, a number of protesters read from a declaration stating their opposition to what they say is the country’s decline and transformation into a fascist state. 

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