Israel adopts a “racist and divisive” Jewish nation-state law

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel passed a “nation-state” law on Thursday declaring that only Jews have the right of self-determination in the country, stirring anger from members of the Arab minority who said it was racist and drawing an expression of concern from the EU.

The bill, backed by the right-wing government, passed through parliament after months of political argument and some Arab lawmakers shouted and ripped up their papers after the vote.

“This is a defining moment in the annals of Zionism and the history of the state of Israel,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset.

Largely symbolic, the law was enacted just after the 70th anniversary of the birth of the state of Israel. It stipulates “Israel is the historical homeland of the Jewish people and they have an exclusive right to national self-determination in it”.

Palestinian leaders condemned the move. “No racist law will undermine the rights of our people. We are proud of being a strong nation deeply rooted in our homeland,” Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said in a statement.

In Brussels, a spokeswoman for EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini expressed concern at the move and said it would complicate a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

The bill also removes Arabic as an official language alongside Hebrew, downgrading it to a “special status” that enables its continued use in Israeli institutions.

Israel’s Arab citizens number some 1.8 million, about 20 percent of the 9 million population.

“I announce with shock and sorrow the death of democracy,” Ahmed Tibi, an Arab lawmaker, told reporters after the law was adopted.

Early drafts had gone further in what critics at home and abroad saw as discrimination toward Arabs, who have long said they are treated in Israel as second-class citizens.

Clauses that were dropped after political wrangling would have enshrined in law establishment of Jewish-only communities.

A more vaguely-worded final version said: “The state views the development of Jewish settlement as a national value and will act to encourage and promote its establishment.”

Even after the changes, critics said the new law will deepen a sense of alienation within the Arab minority.

It comprises mainly descendants of Palestinians who remained on their land during the conflict between Arabs and Jews that culminated in the war of 1948 surrounding Israel’s creation. Hundreds of thousands were forced to leave their homes or fled.

Those who stayed have equal rights under law but say they face constant discrimination, citing inferior services and unfair allocations for education, health and housing.

“This is racist legislation by a radical right-wing government that is creating radical laws, and is planting the seeds to create an apartheid state,” said physician Bassam Bisharah, 71, a resident of Ma’alot Tarshiha, a municipality in northern Israel created by linking a Jewish and an Arab town

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61 responses to “Israel adopts a “racist and divisive” Jewish nation-state law”

    1. Andres Abraham Avatar
      Andres Abraham

      That speech only reflects ignorance. Lebanese, syrians, palestinians, irakies and jordanians are a mixed among semitic peoples along the history (phoenicians, nabateans, assyrians, chaldeans, arameans, jewish, arabs, even europeans as romans and greeks, etc…..) which happened in the same lands for thousands of years.

        1. Andres Abraham Avatar
          Andres Abraham

          I think i understand your point hahahahaha yeaaah…. that would be great for history everywhere. Each religion should stayed where it was created because at the end is a reflext of the local culture.

          Catholicism in italy
          Islam in saudi arabia
          Hinduism in india
          Budism in nepal
          Etc…

          1. No, this is Your idea. Thank You for it. My point – religion must not be impudence or mental infection. But is faith bureaucracy, political parasitism on believers. But even more correct, there no religions in the world more, only two ideas-ideologies: one of creation, spiritual fecundation, love and second is of destruction, mental masturbation or mental rape, hate

            Diversity is very good. Also Tolerance

          2. Andres Abraham Avatar
            Andres Abraham

            Tolerance so important. So much disrespect through history.

          3. Niemals Avatar

            You are probably smart if you understand vs.

            I guess that you understand why vs moved to Israel, where his religion and culture was created.

            After all religion is the opium of the people.

          4. Andres Abraham Avatar
            Andres Abraham

            Peace

          5. Niemals Avatar

            By passing a controversial Jewish Nation-state Bill, you don’t get any “Peace”.
            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3261adeb6eba7410541e3300be07ad434342f47dbc25ccaa132b6e657051d7cd.jpg Israel passes nationality bill into law means more Jews less non Jews.

          6. Niemals Avatar

            Idiots are those who don’t see the danger with this Jewish Nation-state Bill, and you seems to be one of those.

            Note that my opinion doesn’t contradict the need of a state for Jews.

          7. You are mostly good contributor, thank you, but you saving a eurapian liberal fundamentalism and Hitler in your heart a bit. Please clean your brain a bit

          8. stop please repeat yourself posting the same picture with your stupid comments

          9. lol i’m atheist like Karl Marx, more correct i 0,1 one bit believer, My G-d is Inפרmation. G-d exists and not exists, diversity, multipolarization, contrast. Israel is G-d’s Land but also Marx could be live here if want. Was marxism not religion? Another religion, more correctly idea-ideology-philosophy. But the best not failed philosophy imho is Dao De
            +understand vs+ not under but better equal, equalstand

          10. Hannibal Avatar

            and atheist? Do they have a country? 😉

      1. Hannibal Avatar

        You cannot convince a zionazi of the truth and facts. These scumbags are racists and they have been expelled from every land by every nation for a reason. First, they are not the same as the Hebrews. They are nomadic khazars who had no land nor culture. They usurped a religion, a culture and a land and claimed it their own.

        1. suck dick of drunken monkey, infosharmuta kannibal

    2. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      It’s Mizrahim homeland.

      1. chaliphate

    1. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      Not Palestinian names.. can’t stop laughing…Zionist literature

    2. Andres Abraham Avatar
      Andres Abraham

      What about christian palestinian families? Like touma, kattan, abuhayar, cassis,…..

        1. Andres Abraham Avatar
          Andres Abraham

          Yes but all of them are catholic orthodox palestinian families in ecuador. They arrived one hundred+ years ago, and since then they considered themselves as palestinians…

          At the end whats your point? Reduce legitimicy?

          1. Isralandians, adjective “FaLIEstinian” is bad follytical description. There are Jews, Circassians, Druzes, Bedouins, Orabians legitime people with own languages-cultures. FaLIEstinian language-culture is HOAX, they are chosen selected in 1964 follytically mostly Orabians

          2. like Soviet in 1922

          3. Are for You Hamastinians legitime?

          4. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            If this was still Lebanese “YaLibnan” you think it would allow such words?? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/211aa2b4a28de18d7b480428b9252dd4415c9587d24e4dbe81908033dea8ed83.jpg

          5. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            @disqus_d4bXMZbF1y:disqus You’re blocked.
            stop loosing your mosquito breath. Crapaud https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6506e6bf03a05f23e26fa07ba6cfbedea03cff29325a88c93619f1d5afa5f148.jpg

          6. Canadian parasite hateful Abyad go to hell

          7. your primitive hateful brain is blocked

      1. June 1964 “FaLIEstinians” is Soviet KGB-Orabian Hoax Fake

  1. Hind Abyad Avatar
    Hind Abyad

    “The secret report that helps Israel hide facts
    The slickness of Israel’s spokesmen is rooted in directions set down by the pollster Frank Luntz”
    Patrick Cockburn

    https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/israel-gaza-conflict-the-secret-report-that-helps-israelis-to-hide-facts-9630765.html

    1. Cockburn largely fails to bring much light

      1. Hind Abyad Avatar
        Hind Abyad

        It’s not Cockburn, it’s pollster Franz Luntz.

        “Dr Frank Luntz, the study was commissioned five years ago by a group called The Israel Project, with offices in the US and Israel, for use by those “who are on the front lines of fighting the media war for Israel.
        Every one of the 112 pages in the booklet is marked “not for distribution or publication”

        1. messinformation

  2. Blue Genius Avatar
    Blue Genius

    They passed this law so that Saudi would have something to criticize.
    Political theater

    1. Niemals Avatar

      Politic is a teater, so what you will say now when act number one is done and you see act #2?

      In the second act they will remove the non-Jews, and replace them with Jews from the rest of the world without any help from the Saudis.

      Who will stop them to start act #3?

      1. Are you took pills? Israeli Orabians (21% of population) are in full safety. Please contact them for information. If you don’t understand something, do not have your say

      2. Blue Genius Avatar
        Blue Genius

        If they could remove the non-jews at an acceptable cost, it would have been done 70+ years ago.

        “Act 2” is the western oligarchs activating a coalition of the willing (“NATO is obeselete”) and going to war with Iran. NATO countries like Poland, UK, France will be major donors. No Germany or Italy, and Turkey probably not.

        If you’re following the program, this would be the next act.

        1. Niemals Avatar

          70+ years ago, Israel was inhabited by Jews who, with hard physical work, built the newly created state of Israel.

          These religious fanatics who have ‘taken over’ the country in the late 1970 are absorbed with their ‘studying’ av Tora

          Your “Act 2” is just bull shit based on Fake News,
          By the way we are members of NATO, and we are opposed of Turkish ‘politics’.
          Erdoğan’s Turkey will never be a part of the European Union, and personalty I hope that NATO dismisses them.

          Since Erdoğan came to power we have only problems with ‘our’ german turks.

          1. Blue Genius Avatar
            Blue Genius

            Which German parties would back a large scale Middle East war? The ones that have been losing their grip on power? Also, Italy is looking for rapprochement with the Orient, at least their most popular party is.

            As far as getting rid of Turkey -it’s a pipe dream. They are one of the best customers for NATO weapons, and in the West, money talks, especially when it buys weapons. Pompeo and the entire political class in the US are begging for war with Iran at any cost, and overtures for peace, like highly publicized summits, are being shot down. It is difficult to imagine a scenario where they wouldn’t have their way.

          2. Niemals Avatar

            The Bundeswehr can muster up to 10,000 soldiers for foreign missions (United Nations peacekeeping troops, humanitarian missions, assistance in the event of natural disasters).

            The Bundeswehr is under the control of the German Parliament.
            In other words no German parties are in the position to back any war.

            West Germany officially joined the trans-Atlantic alliance in 1955. However, it wasn’t until after reunification in 1990 that the German government considered “out of area” missions led by NATO. From peacekeeping to deterrence, Germany’s Bundeswehr has since been deployed in several countries across the globe in defense of its allies.

            You probably didn’t reflect that our foreign minister (Heiko Maas) said: We can not rely on the USA anymore.
            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ac66526491435a73bc7b58513cabf91f583bb03933fc1636f14d0fec30f93f14.jpg

          3. Blue Genius Avatar
            Blue Genius

            Well, indeed they can muster these troops…but have you reflected that this is the same Bundeswehr that has been caught time and time again with Nazi memorabilia? If they intend to send these units into harm’s way for the sake of Israel, they had better send plenty of the BfV with them.

            It seems that German leadership is already cognizant of this reality, and they are looking to augment this legion with Eastern Europeans, who are considered more reliable, not for being more pro-Jewish, but more easily manipulated into a crusader mentality. They are also poor, which helps the calculus.

  3. Niemals Avatar

    Either “Days of Palestine” pretending to be idiots when they tweet Israel’s Knesset passed a law defining Israel as the “nation state of the Jewish people” https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/80487e43da3f1caa84d8d367c5997f7476e88a338ea83716813dfb3056233469.jpg pretending that the video is done in Tel-Aviv, or they think that they can feed us with more fake videos as this one; https://twitter.com/DaysofPalestine/status/1018758162948808704
    Make an enlargement of this ‘evidence video’ (it’s enough with 250-300%) and you clearly see the fraud of the so-called “When will Israel be held accountable for its crimes against childhood?”

  4. Niemals Avatar

    The remaining of the Jewish temples (the Western Wall) is crumbling apart.
    https://youtu.be/Q3n0rC-nL6Y

    Is it because of the new law…
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3261adeb6eba7410541e3300be07ad434342f47dbc25ccaa132b6e657051d7cd.jpg

    1. Hannibal Avatar

      Like Jesus predicted… Not ONE stone will remain standing because of their sins against Yhwh.

      1. check your sins, fake hateful infosharmuta

          1. infosharmuta like you, kannibal

      1. Niemals Avatar

        It sounds like you want to join the trio that I blocked, so I will be relieved to see your comments as well.

        1. It sounds like your brain is blocked a bit. Yalibnan is a wild place a bit spoiled by hate to Israel. I’m inviting You to better place to comment https://disqus.com/home/discussion/channel-notthejerusalempost/open_forum_aug_7th_edition/

          1. I’m sorry i’m mocking You a bit because You are Eurapenian “peacekeeper”. But Israel is not in Eurape friendly surrounded by love&peace&friendship

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