Knesset Passes "Nakba" and "Segregation" Laws
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>> The Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) passed, on Tuesday at night, two bills into law. The so-called “Nakba law”, and a bill, deemed “segregation law”, by opponents in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
The Nakba law, once implemented, will make it illegal for public bodies, or agencies that receive funding from the State of Israel, to claim that Israel should not be a Jewish state, and that the practices of the government are not democratic.
Furthermore the commemoration of “Nakba Day”, the anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, following the Yishuv’s ethnic cleansing of the majority of indigenous Palestinians from what became Israel, has also been made illegal.
Palestinian MKs called the bill “racist” and “undemocratic”, an act that, now the bill has become law, could result in fines being portioned out amongst the parliamentarians if they repeat their actions.
The passing of the segregation law, on its third reading in the Knesset, brings into the Israeli statute books, the ability of towns and cities to form “admission committees” to judge whether a person, or persons, moving to the locality are deemed “suitable”.
The segregation law has sparked fears not only in Palestinian persons living in Israel, but also other racial minorities in Israel and within the gay community. << |
