Israeli parliament passes bill defining country as the nation-state of the Jewish people

[sandensea]

The Israeli parliament has passed a controversial bill defining the country as the nation state of the Jewish people, granting an advantageous status to Jewish-only communities and downgrading Arabic from an official language to one with a “special status.”

The bill passed at 3 a.m. Thursday, squeezing by with 62 votes out of 120. The new law defines Israel as the historic homeland of the Jewish nation, with “a singular right to national self-determination within it.”

Arab members of Israel’s parliament confronted Netanyahu as he left the venue.

“You passed an apartheid law, a racist law!” shouted Ahmad Tibi, a member of the Arab Joint List. “Why are you afraid of the Arabic language?”

At: http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-nation-state-bill-20180718-story.html

Separate but equal? Jewish and Arab Israelis together in Jaffa.

[GitRDun]

1. 62 bigots out of 120...

A pox on all their houses.

[brush]

2. ????? Religion or nationality?

[procon]

3. How is this any different than Apartheid?

Do all the other ethnic and religious groups now get relegated to second class citizenship? Do they get shipped off to ghettos and camps, their property confiscated, as discrimination becomes legal? This will not end well.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Does that mean that Arabs and other non-Jews will have to register as "Aliens"

in their own country?