Don’t fix the nation state bill, Just drop It


March 17, 2018
Richard Kuper
The nation-state bill in its current form enables de-facto geographic separation between Arabs and Jews; Israel's deputy state attorney has already warned it is a 'blatant discrimination against human beings'

Israeli Knesset

Haaretz editorial on the nation state bill; “In an urgent discussion on Tuesday, a special committee to advance the nation-state bill approved the bill’s new version for a preliminary Knesset vote. The nation-state bill is the rightist government’s flagship piece of legislation and is intended to violate the equal rights of Israel’s Arabs, which were promised in the Declaration of Independence. Despite the concessions and omissions made in the bill’s last draft, the new approved version also confirms that it is a bad, unnecessary proposal.  (read more) See also our posts on February 14 and March 11.

 See also our posts on February 14 and March 11.

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