Egalitarian for thee

Rabbi Speaks on Ongoing Ordeal

The New Yorker has published an article titled Israel Passes a Law Stating What’s Jewish About a “Jewish and Democratic State.”

The author writes, "Successive Netanyahu coalitions failed to pass an egalitarian conscription law that puts the same burden on Orthodox youth as it does on secular youth."

If the author is so concernd about equality, why doesn't he write "an egalitarian conscription law that puts the same burden on the Arab minority youth"?

Furthermore, he writes, "Meanwhile, Orthodox ministers in charge of the Interior Ministry under Likud governments began to apply stringently Orthodox, or halachic, standards to conversion for purposes of authorizing '“Jewish nationality.”'

Is it possible that the stringently Orthodox, halachic standards were appled to conversion for the purpose of keeping halacha?

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