Nah man, most EE countries want to be aligned with the EU. Unless you mean Belarus.
But specifically Israel was founded by a lot of people from the pale of settlement, there was big wave of immigration from USSR after the berlin wall fell.
Culturally they represent the same mix of craziness, inventiveness, paranoia, chauvinism, xenophobia that the other EE countries also show. Not that those are bad things depending on the context and the situation.
The ECHR has nothing to do with the EU.
Or as a EU member can you withdraw from the court without consequences?
They are intertwined.
EU laws are adjudicated by the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Not ReptileMan: Depending on the country and social environment that you live in, such opinions of "ordinary, living" people are nothing unusual. In my experience the reason why many people think such opinions barely exist "in normal society" or accuse posters of such opinions to be bots is that these normal people live in a bubble in which such opinions are rare.