Our Values

Ashteret relies on a foundation of clear and embraced values, which guide each of its actions. In a world marked by fears, withdrawal, and divisions, we affirm a profound commitment to freedom, truth, and human dignity.

Freedom of Thought
We defend free, critical thought, liberated from political or religious dogmas. Faced with imposed discourses, we believe in the power of critical thinking, fertile doubt, and shared reflection.

Rigorous Dialogue
Dialogue is not just a slogan: it is a method. It involves sincere listening, the confrontation of ideas, and respect for disagreements. We reject caricatures, binary positions, and fixed identities.

Emancipatory Knowledge
Knowledge is not a privilege: it is a lever for emancipation. Ashteret advocates for equitable access to knowledge, against disinformation, manipulative narratives, and organized ignorance.

Pluralism and Coexistence
We recognize the diversity of beliefs, cultures, and narratives. This plurality is not a threat, but a richness. We work towards a coexistence based on recognition, not on condescending tolerance.

Intellectual Courage
In a climate where speech is often muzzled by fear or conformism, Ashteret chooses courage. The courage to say, write, and publish what is unsettling—without provocation, but without compromise.

Open Secularism
We defend a secularism that protects freedoms, not one that stigmatizes. A secularism that adapts to contexts, particularly in the Arab world, while affirming the autonomy of thought from religious powers.

Living Transmission
Ashteret values memory, cultural and spiritual heritages—but always in a living, open dynamic, turned towards the future. To transmit is also to question, revisit, reinvent.

Active Hope
We refuse fatalism and disenchantment. Even in a troubled world, we believe that a common future is possible. Ashteret carries a constructive voice, lucid yet oriented towards reconstruction.