America says that every baby born in America is entitled to American citizenship. Israel has no such law...
None of the above issues has anything to do with respect for human rights.
How can you separate human rights and entitlement for citizenship? Human rights are bestowed by governments on a group, and the group are usually citizens. Those who are not members of the group (ie, not citizens) are not entitled to the government-granted rights. America gives citizenship to everyone, regardless of religious belief, if they are born in the USA. And those people are entitled to the "human rights" outlined in the Bill of Rights.
Israel, on the other hand, grants the children of Jewish mothers the right to citizenship (and all the "human rights" which come along with it), and doesn't grant the same to the rest of the world's population. This is a very different approach to human rights than that followed by the USA.
the children of Jewish mothers, regardless of where they are born, are entitled to Israeli citizenship
Ditto Armenia, Germany, and many many other nations that extend preferential citizenship to persons of a particular ethnic background.
My American experience indicates being Jewish is a religious thing, not an "ethnic" thing. I don't think there is another country that grants citizenship based on religion.
Sammy Davis Jr. is Jewish, right?
There are some Chinese & Ethiopian Jews, right?
My sister (born to my mother) is Jewish (and I'm not). We're originally Anglo-Saxon folk, as far as I know.
The above are all entitled to Israeli citizenship.
The above are all in the same ethnic group? Puhhhlease. |
