Background
Biletzki was born in Jerusalem, Israel.
human rights activist philosopher politician
Biletzki was born in Jerusalem, Israel.
Biletzki is unusual in her explicit and controversial criticism of "Jewish Israel" as distinct from Israel as a nation or political bodies within Israel. As well, Biletzki suggested that controversial statements made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu in the days before the election, specifically the assertion that a two-state solution would never happen during his tenure, and an expression of anxiety that supposedly large amounts of Israeli Arabs were voting, represent implicit norms of "Zionist, Jewish Israel.".
In a New York Times opinion piece she writes that " is unambiguous in its Jewish, nationalistic agenda," and that "norms of exclusive Jewish rights and exclusion of Arab citizens" are inherent to Zionism.
She was a member of B"tselem, an Israeli human rights non-governmental organization, acting as chairperson from 2001 to 2006, and has served as a B"tselem Board member since 1995. Biletzki is a member of the executive board of FFIPP-I (Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace International), which describes itself as "a network of Palestinian, Israeli, and International faculty, and students, working in solidarity for a complete end of the occupation and just peace.".