Miri Regev (senior Likud minister; then Culture & Sport Minister) — official statement, 21 Oct 2018, on her "Culture Loyalty" bill: "preserving freedom of expression does not allow incitement against the Jewish and democratic State of Israel" — conditioning state arts funding on loyalty to the state. [Second doc — distinct CULTURE-WAR / free-expression / loyalty-in-culture axis, vs her existing Mizrahi periphery-populism doc.]

Freedom of expression is a guiding light for us and a central value in the life of the State of Israel as a democratic state, but preserving freedom of expression does not allow incitement against the Jewish and democratic State of Israel.

[SECOND DOCUMENT for Miri Regev, covering a DISTINCT axis from her existing one (a September 2022 Davar interview positioning herself as the voice of the Mizrahi PERIPHERY against the center — i.e. the identity/populism axis). This document is her CULTURE-WAR / free-expression axis: the "Culture Loyalty" bill that would condition state arts funding on loyalty to the state. Source: her official statement as Culture & Sport Minister, reported by The Times of Israel when ministers advanced the bill, 21 October 2018; original Hebrew; tier-2; quote confirmed verbatim against the fetched page and attributed there to Regev ("she said in a statement"); the quote's terminal comma is rendered here as a period. ATTRIBUTION NOTE: the same article carries opponents' quotes (e.g. that the bill makes her "the chief censor and the head of the thought police" and is "a proposal to shut up critics") — those are her critics' words and are deliberately NOT included.] A distinct declared position of Miri Regev — a senior Likud minister and, at the time, Culture & Sport Minister. Promoting her "Culture Loyalty" bill (which would let the state withhold funding from cultural institutions deemed disloyal — e.g. for denigrating the state, flag or army, or marking Independence Day as a day of mourning), she framed limits on state support for the arts as a defense of the state: "Freedom of expression is a guiding light for us and a central value in the life of the State of Israel as a democratic state, but preserving freedom of expression does not allow incitement against the Jewish and democratic State of Israel." This is the nationalist-right CULTURE-WAR pole — the view that the state may condition its cultural funding on loyalty and refuse to subsidize what it deems incitement against a Jewish and democratic Israel — as against the position that this chills artistic and political free expression. [Axes: free-expression / culture (state conditioning of arts funding on "loyalty"; limits on subsidized expression deemed incitement; the culture-war over state-funded art), nationalism / state-loyalty (loyalty to the Jewish and democratic state as a funding criterion; protecting state symbols), state-and-civil-society (the government's role in policing the boundaries of acceptable cultural expression). NOTE: a declared-position document — Regev's stated position as reported, scoped to the culture/free-expression axis her existing document does not cover.]